Ben Gazzara
Biography
Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977).
As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).
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Dogville’s Brutal Mirror: A Town Stripped Bare
Ever wonder what happens when a film dares to strip humanity to its raw, ugly core? Lars von Trier’s Dogville (2003) doesn’t just ask it demands you confront the answer. This audacious experiment in m... Read more
The Fragile Dance of Desperation in Buffalo ’66
Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ’66 (1998) is a raw, idiosyncratic portrait of human fragility, where the bleakness of a snow-draped Buffalo, New York, becomes a canvas for emotional excavation. Gallo’s direc... Read more
Scales of Justice: The Piercing Clarity of Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is a courtroom drama that wields its precision like a scalpel, dissecting the ambiguities of truth and morality with unflinching clarity. Rather than reveli... Read more
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