“Audrey was unhappy in her marriage and hurting. Actor Ben Gazzara and wife Elke. Actor Ben Gazzara, wife Elke Krivat, and his daughter Elizabeth Gazzara attend the Screening of Showtime's "Chantilly Lace" on June 15, 1993 at... Actor Ben Gazzara and wife Elke Krivat attends the First Annual Actors Studio Awards on November 5, 1980 at Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. His next role was as the defendant in Anatomy of a Murder (1959) which was a big hit.Gazzara followed this with an Italian venture co-starring Anna Magnani, The Passionate Thief (1960), two Hollywood films The Young Doctors (1961) and Convicts 4 (1962) and then another Italian film Conquered City (1962). Voelker based the novel on a 1952 murder case in which he was the defense attorney. Gazzara adopted his wife's daughter Danja from her prior relationship. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, Husbands polarized critics upon release. Shared a "purist's" approach to acting and choosing roles with. He was born on August 28, 1930 at Manhattan, New York, United States. Most were for free-to-air television or cable but he also worked on the big screen in The Spanish Prisoner (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998) and Summer of Sam (1999). Despite being a close friend of Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara will never appear as a guest star in Columbo series, unlike John Cassavettes; another Falk's close friend. Claimed that of all of the movies in which he has ever appeared in. (1961), and was second-billed in The Young Doctors (1961). Ben Gazzara and wife Elke Stuckmann attend the 1992 Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala circa 1992 in New York City. In between, he made A Rage to Live (1965), a film version of John O'Hara's novel. He was the son of Antonio Gazzarra (father) and Angelina Cusumano (mother). [17], King: A Filmed Record... 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He was born Biagio Anthony Gazzara on August 28, 1930, in New York City. The six-and-a-half-hour series was based on a book by Leon Uris and co-starred Anthony Hopkins. He starred in an action movie, High Velocity (1976), and was one of many stars in Voyage of the Damned (1976). He agreed to star in Inchon (1981) to work with Laurence Olivier. Ben Gazzara was in relationships with Audrey Hepburn (1968), Elaine Stritch (1958 - 1960) and Joanna Moore (1957). I won't tell you the pictures I turned down because they would say, 'You are a fool.' Ben Gazzara with his wife Elke in 2011. He studied with. [citation needed] The studio planned to offer the role to James Dean, but the part was given to Paul Newman after Dean's death. Husbands is a 1970 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. Ben Gazzara had encounters with Barbara Rush (1957) and Carroll Baker (1954). Ben Gazzara & wife during "The Cat's Meow" New York City Premiere at Beekman Theater in New York City, New York, United States. Actor Ben Gazzara and wife Elke Krivat attend the "Tempest" New York City Premiere Party on August 8, 1982 at South Street Seaport in New York City. A wife discovers that her husband is not only the prime suspects in a call-girl murder case but is … with Colleen Dewhurst in 1976. He also guest-starred on Kraft Suspense Theatre. He completed filming his scenes in the film The Wait in early 2012, shortly before his death.[7]. For his work in the series, Gazzara received two Emmy nominations for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" and three Golden Globe nominations for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama."[5][6]. After two years, he relented. American actor Ben Gazzara attends the 1982 Cannes Film Festival His latest film Inchon directed by Terence Young was screened at the festival. (2006). If I had the same chances today I would take them all because you never know where it will lead. He was born on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City to Antonio Gazzara and Angela Cusumano Gazzara, both Italian immigrants. [11][12][13] During their departure from Czechoslovakia, Gazzara and Vaughn assisted with the escape of a Czech waitress whom they had befriended. [16] He was later cremated. It stars Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, and Cassavetes as three middle class men in the throes of a midlife crisis following the death of a close friend.. Actor Ben Gazzara and wife Elke Krivat attend the "Tempest" New York City Premiere Party on August 8, 1982 at South Street Seaport in New York City. Ben Gazzara was previously married to Elke Stuckmann (1982 - 2012), Janice Rule (1961 - 1982) and Louise Erickson (1951 - 1957). Elke Gazzara, Actress: Uncomfortable Silence. His buddy in the cameo was John Cassavetes, who directed and co-starred with him in Husbands (1970), a critical success. Gazzara was in the 1963 Actors Studio production of Strange Interlude on Broadway. Actor Ben Gazzara attends the "Viewing Party for Superbowl XXXI: Green Bay Packers vs. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. See obituary (Larry Busacca / Getty Images) 6 / 7. He made The Sicilian Connection (1972) in Italy, and did a science fiction film The Neptune Factor (1973). | Gazzara became a Broadway sensation when he portrayed role of Brick in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955–56) opposite Barbara Bel Geddes, directed by Elia Kazan. | Ben Gazzara and wife Elke Stuckmann attend the 1992 Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala circa 1992 in New York City. [1988] When I became hot, so to speak, in the theater, I got a lot of offers. He was American by natinoanliy. Gazzara made some films in Europe: Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), The Girl from Trieste (1982), A Proper Scandal (1984), My Dearest Son. Select from premium Elke Krivat of the highest quality. He and Hepbur… [10] He and Hepburn co-starred in two of her final films, Bloodline (1979) and They All Laughed (1981). Actor Ben Gazzara on set of the movie "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" , … He worked much on the small screen, including the groundbreaking television movie An Early Frost (1985), playing the father of an AIDS victim.The 1990s saw Gazzara working like never before, appearing in 38 films. Gazzara was born in New York City, the son of Italian immigrants Angelina (née Cusumano) and Antonio Gazzarra, a laborer and carpenter, each of Sicilian origin—Angelina from Castrofilippo and Antonio from Canicattì in the province of Agrigento. [9] He married model Elke Krivat in 1982 and remained married to her until his death. Ben Gazzara and Elke Krivat. Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama crime film produced and directed by Otto Preminger.The screenplay by Wendell Mayes was based on the 1958 novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver. Gazzara was nominated three times for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play—in 1956 for A Hatful of Rain, in 1975 for the paired short plays Hughie and Duet, and in 1977 for a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Colleen Dewhurst. Gazzara starred in a television movie, Pursuit (1972), the directorial debut of Michael Crichton. He had a villainous role in the oft-televised Patrick Swayze film Road House, which the actor jokingly said is probably his most-watched performance. I turned down so many movies because I was idealistic. They smuggled her to Austria in a car waved through a border crossing that had not yet been taken over by the Soviet army in its crackdown on the Prague Spring. Died on the anniversary of the death of his close friend, He studied drama at the Dramatic Workshop in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. "When I became hot, so to speak, in the theater, I got a lot of offers," he said. Gazzara was the male lead in A Rage to Live (1965) with Suzanne Pleshette. On Broadway, he was the virile ex-football player pining for his “best friend” while ignoring wife Barbara Bel Geddes in the 1955 original staging of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Back in the US he did a TV movie, Cry Vengeance! He gained fame in the TV series Run for Your Life which ran from 1965 to 1968 on NBC, in which he played a terminally ill man trying to get the most out of the last two years of his life. They collaborated for the first time on Cassavetes's film Husbands (1970), in which he appeared alongside Peter Falk and Cassavetes. After a decade’s absence from Hollywood she returned for the 1979 movie Bloodline, enjoying a fl ing with married co-star Ben Gazzara. And I was a fool. Scroll down for video The son of a Sicilian immigrant laborer, he grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. Gazzara guest-starred on shows like Treasury Men in Action and Danger. Other big-screen roles in the 1980s were scarce apart from Road House (1989), a Patrick Swayze vehicle that Gazzara believed out of all his films had been the most repeated on television. There were more television films You'll Never See Me Again (1973) and Maneater (1973). Gazzara's career received a boost when Peter Bogdanovich cast him in the title role of Saint Jack (1979). Bloodline (1979) and They All Laughed (1981) (also directed by Bogdanovich) were only notable because of Gazzara's off-screen relationship with co-star Audrey Hepburn (ironically, Gazzara had declined to make his screen debut in War and Peace (1956) starring Hepburn). Actor Ben Gazzara and wife Elke. He went to Italy to make a comedy, The Passionate Thief (1960), with Anna Magnani and Totò. They had a daughter named Elizabeth. With Ben Gazzara, Nicholas Colasanto, Jack Krupnick, Fernando Lamas. She and her husband helped marry Mr Gazzara and his wife, German-born Elke Krivat, at their hotel. … The son of immigrant Sicilian bricklayer Antonio Gazzara and his wife, the former Angelina Cusumano, Biagio Anthony Gazzara grew up in a series of coldwater flats. He joined the The New School and later the Actors Studio. Spoke fluent Italian, though his dialogue was usually dubbed in the Italian-language releases of his films. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up … Actor Ben Gazzara arrives with wife Elke Krivas at the Tribeca Theater Festival where he was one of the panel judges. Bigger names Paul Newman and Don Murray played those last two roles on the big screen but Gazzara made his movie debut in The Strange One (1957) the film version of "End as a Man." Find the perfect Elke Gazzara stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Later in 1982, Gazzara married Elke Stuckmann, who remains his wife today. Actor Ben Gazzara and wife Elke Krivat attend the Seventh Annual Crystal Apple Awards on July 30, 1990 at Gracie Mansion in New York City. Actor Ben Gazzara, wife Elke Krivat, and his daughter Elizabeth Gazzara attend the Screening of Showtime's 'Chantilly Lace' on June 15, 1993 at Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City, New York. He made an acclaimed TV movie The Death of Richie (1977). In his seventies, Gazzara continued to be active. He followed it with another long run in A Hatful of Rain (1956). He married model Elke Krivat in 1982 and remained married to her until his death. Storie di ordinaria follia (1981) was another lead for Gazzara, but it received a mixed critical reception. Following his separation from his first wife, Gazzara was engaged to stage actress Elaine Stritch and later disclosed a love affair with actress Audrey Hepburn. Gazzara was married three times, first to actress Louise Erickson (1951–1957). He also made the television movies When Michael Calls (1972), Fireball Forward (1972), and The Family Rico (1972). A sick fuck who opened his heart and brain in search of truth and art, and who did it all with STYLE . Save to Board. [1] Gazzara grew up in New York's Kips Bay neighborhood; he lived on East 29th Street and participated in the drama program at Madison Square Boys & Girls Club located across the street. 81 year-old Ben Gazzara was born to Italian immigrants parents in New York he had one brother Tony. Gazzara appeared in 38 films, many for television, in the 1990s. Select from premium Elke Gazzara of the highest quality. He starred in the television miniseries QB VII (1974), which won six primetime Emmy Awards. I didn't really take advantage of the opportunities. Ben Gazzara was born on Aug. 28, 1930, in the Italian Hospital on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Some of the actor's most formidable characters were those he created with his friend John Cassavetes in the 1970s. (on making movies in Italy) You go where they love you. [2] He attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School, but finally graduated from Saint Simon Stock in the Bronx. Ben Gazzara Career. Portrait of actor Ben Gazzara Rome Italy 1989. The following year Gazzara married Janice Rule – having divorced his first wife, Louise Erickson, in 1957 – and took the role of the idealistic pathologist in The Young Doctors. Although they played enemies on-screen in Road House (1989) he said he very much enjoyed working with Patrick Swayze on that film and the two of them got along very well. Long before An Early Frost, Ben Gazzara had already appeared in two (however veiled) gay-themed productions. Smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day until he switched to cigars. He returned to films in The Bridge at Remagen (1969) and with a cameo appearance in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969). A year later, he starred in yet another Cassavetes-directed movie, Opening Night, as stage director Manny Victor, who struggles with the mentally unstable star of his show, played by Cassavetes's wife Gena Rowlands. After seeing Laurette Taylor in "The Glass Menagerie," Gazzara decided he wanted to become an actor. Survivors include his wife of 29 years, Elke Stuckmann Krivat; a daughter from his marriage to Rule, Elizabeth; Krivat’s daughter, Danja, whom he adopted; and a brother. The tale of a brutal southern military academy reached Broadway slightly changed in 1953 but with Gazzara still in the principal role. The cast and crew were detained for a time; filming was later completed in West Germany. With Jaclyn Smith, Ben Gazzara, Nick Mancuso, Greg Evigan. He studied engineering (unhappily) but quit after receiving an acting scholarship (he worked under well-known coach Erwin Piscator).Gazzara then joined the Actors Studio, where a group of students improvised a play from Calder Willingham's novel End as a Man. He turned to television in the 1960s but made a big screen comeback with roles in three John Cassavetes films in the 1970s. [14], Gazzara was the honorary starter of the 1979 Daytona 500, the first flag-to-flag Daytona 500 broadcast live on CBS. Ben Gazzara, Elke Krivat, John Cassavetes and Peter Falk. The production was transferred to Broadway and ran until 1954. Release of his autobiography, "In the Moment: My Life as an Actor". Elke Gazzara was born as Elke Stuckmann. He grew up in a building at 29th Street and 1st Avenue, where he slept on the fire escape in summer and occasionally heard screams from the patients at the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York City. He was best known for starring as ‘Paul Bryan’ in the TV series ‘Run for Your Life’ (1965–1968), for which he earned three ‘Golden Globe’ nominations and won two ‘Emmy Awards.’. Elke, his third wife, saved his life, Gazzara had said. He went to City College of New York to study electrical engineering. Buffalo '66 is a 1998 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Vincent Gallo, starring Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston.The plot revolves around Billy Brown (Gallo), a man who kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla (Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife to impress his parents (Gazzara and Huston) after he gets released from prison. If he never became the leading man his early films and stage work promised, he had a career notable for its longevity. He was also famous from other names as Benny, Ben Gazzara. Find the perfect Elke Krivat stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Gazzara became well known in several television series, beginning with Arrest and Trial, which ran from 1963 to 1964 on ABC. Gazzara told Charlie Rose in 1998 that he went from being mainly a stage actor who often would turn up his nose at film roles in the mid-1950s to, much later, a ubiquitous character actor who turned very little down. He won his only Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002). John Nicholas Cassavetes (Greek: Ιωάννης Νικόλαος Κασσαβέτης, / ˌ k æ s ə ˈ v ɛ t iː z /; December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. Following his separation from his first wife, Gazzara was engaged to stage actress Elaine Stritch and later disclosed a love affair with actress Audrey Hepburn. He worked with a number of renowned directors, such as the Coen brothers (The Big Lebowski), Spike Lee (Summer of Sam), David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner), Walter Hugo Khouri (Forever), Vincent Gallo (Buffalo '66), Todd Solondz (Happiness), John Turturro (Illuminata), and John McTiernan (The Thomas Crown Affair). Profession: Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Stage Actor Known For: Ben Gazzara Debut TV Series/Movie: The Strange One (1957) Salary: Under Review Net Worth: USD $20 million approx Family & Relatives. He was Movies (Actor) by profession. She is an actress, known for Uncomfortable Silence (2013) and Gazzara (2012). Ben Gazzara real name was Biagio Anthony Gazzara. He married actress Janice Rule on November 25, 1961 in San Francisco. Cassevetes was in the support cast. Gazzara made two more well-received films with his good friend Cassavetes: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977).Gazzara's other films in the 1970s were undistinguished apart from the sprawling Voyage of the Damned (1976) and a rare leading role in director Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack (1979). Ben Gazzara's screen career began with two critically acclaimed roles as heavies in the late 1950s. "I won't tell you the pictures I turned down, because you'll say, 'You are a fool'—and I was a fool.". In 2005, he played Agostino Casaroli in the television miniseries, Pope John Paul II. He took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator and afterward joined the Actors Studio. He starred with Rowlands in the critically acclaimed AIDS-themed TV movie An Early Frost (1985), for which he received his third Emmy nomination. A successful lawyer (Ben Gazzara) is told by his doctor he's terminally ill, and will be dead in less than two years. He returned to Italy to make The Captive City (1962) with David Niven. His best-known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Buffalo '66 (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). [3] Years later, he said that the discovery of his love for acting saved him from a life of crime during his teen years.[4]. He decides to do all of the things for which he never had time. Francoise Purdue, Other Works None of these did much for his career, and he turned to television. He received acclaim for his off-Broadway performance in End as a Man in 1953. In 1968, during filming of the war movie The Bridge at Remagen, co-starring Gazzara and friend Robert Vaughn, the Soviet Union and its allies invaded Czechoslovakia. He caught the acting bug when he was 11 years old and watched one of his friends act in a play at the Madison Square Boys Club. They often spoke Italian at home. Besides Danja, Gazzara is survived by his wife, daughter Elizabeth and a brother. He made another for Bogdanovich, They All Laughed (1981). His increased profile helped him be cast in the male lead of Bloodline (1979) and the Korean War epic Inchon (1980) co-starring Laurence Olivier and Richard Roundtree. He also guest-starred on shows such as Medallion Theatre and The United States Steel Hour. Rita Moreno, who played Gazzara's wife in the 2000 film "Blue Moon," said, "He was a wonderful man, and I so enjoyed working with him. He is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth Gazzara, from his second marriage to Janice Rule; his third wife, Elke Gazzara (Elke Stuckmann) (married since 1982); his adopted daughter, Danja Gazzara, from Elke's previous marriage; and brother, Anthony Gazzara. When the series ended Gazzara had a cameo in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) and a lead in the wartime action film The Bridge at Remagen (1969). Gazzara was married three times, first to actress Louise Erickson (1951–1957). Swayze in 2009, and Gazzara in 2012. In addition to acting, Gazzara worked as an occasional television director; his credits include the Columbo episodes A Friend in Deed (1974) and Troubled Waters (1975). He married actress Janice Rule on November 25, 1961 in San Francisco. I wish I could have had the pleasure more often." Gazzara also had a high-profile affair with actress Audrey … Gazzara returned to Broadway for a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Gazzara adopted his wife's daughter Danja from her prior relationship. Browse 428 elke gazzara stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Woman of Wonders (1985) Ben Gazzara was an American actor and director. In 2003, he appeared in Nobody Don't Like Yogi, an off-Broadway show about Yogi Berra which had a solid run and was in a revival of Awake and Sing! Gazzara turned down the role in the film version. He suffered a stroke in 2005. He also appeared in the TV special A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) and had a short Broadway run in A Traveller without Luggage in 1964. Gazzara is survived by his wife, Elke Stuckmann and his daughter, Elizabeth Gazzarra. The February 16, 1983, edition of Variety, in the "Production in Italy" section, reports the film "Boogie Woogie" directed by. He said Swayze was a very nice man and professional always wanting to give his best in everything. 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). He then played gangster Al Capone in the biographical film Capone (1975). (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) Ron Galella Archive - File Photos : News Photo. Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. Gazzara appeared on Broadway in Hughie (1975) then worked again for Cassavetes as director in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), in which Gazzara took the leading role of the hapless strip-joint owner, Cosmo Vitelli. In the 1980s, he had a villa in Umbria, Italy, where he spent time in Italian films. Former Associated Press writer Bob Thomas in Los Angeles contributed to this report. Claudine Georgette Longet (born 29 January 1942) is a French-American singer, actress, dancer, and recording artist popular during the 1960s and 1970s.. Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to American singer and television entertainer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975. Ben Gazzara was a sick fuck. Actor Ben Gazzara attends a party in Los Angeles, California. In 1961, he married Janice Rule, with whom he had a daughter, actress Elizabeth Gazzara, before divorcing in 1982. Attended NYC's famed Stuyvesant High School. It was a star making part (he won a Theatre World award) and he then played leads in the original productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955) and "A Hatful of Rain" (1955) (he was nominated for a Tony). He and his Road House costar Patrick Swayze both died from pancreatic cancer. [8] They had a daughter named Elizabeth. He joined other Actors Studio members in the 1957 film The Strange One produced by Sam Spiegel. As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965–1968), Gazzara was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He appeared in the successful series Arrest and Trial (1963) and Run for Your Life (1965). The film was a critical but not commercial success. Official Sites, Often played characters whose charming veneer masked inner turmoil or even anguish. Publicity Listings He was also featured in a 1994 article in Cigar Aficionado, in which he admitted smoking four packs of cigarettes a day until taking up cigar smoking in the mid-1960s. Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1999. I was so pure. [15] On February 3, 2012, he died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. He was in the ensemble cast of the experimental film Dogville, directed by Lars von Trier of Denmark and starring Nicole Kidman, as well as the television film Hysterical Blindness (he received an Emmy Award for his role). His television work included a guest appearance as an executive assistant attorney in a 2001 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), - IMDb Mini Biography By: US actor Ben Gazzara and his wife Elke relxing with a drink on the island of Capri Italy in September 1989. [2000]. His second film was a high-profile performance as a soldier on trial for avenging his wife's rape in Otto Preminger's courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959). The 1980s and 1990s saw Gazzara work more frequently than ever before in character parts. [3], Gazzara was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1999. 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