Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood; it was during an early stint there that he met and married Shelley Winters whom he divorced to return to Italy. He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini Massimo Girotti Arnoldo Foà for a successful Peer Gynt (by Henrik Ibsen). CL 0441 – Mistici del '200.

Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI (born Vittorio Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000) popularly known as Il Mattatore was an Italian theatre and film actor and director.