

Ben Gazzara
Acting
August 28, 1930
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
February 3, 2012
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).
The Filmography


Quiet Flows The Don

The Shore

Dogville Confessions

Dogville

Hysterical Blindness

Brian's Song

Jack of Hearts

The List

Undertaker's Paradise

Shark in a Bottle

Very Mean Men

Blue Moon

A Constant Forge

Paradise Cove

Happiness

Illuminata

Buffalo '66

Too Tired to Die
