Cast & creator
Ben Gazzara
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Mike Douglas Show
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).
Also known as: Biagio Anthony Gazzarra, Biagio Anthony Gazzara
127
film credits
28
television credits
150
1944–2025 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (155)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
E.A.D.A.
1999
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
1961
Columbo
Director
1971
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Sidney
1963The Tony Danza Show
Self - Guest
2004
The Name of the Game
Director
1968
Dinah!
Self
1974Film '72
Self
1971
Run for Your Life
Paul Bryan
1965Run for Your Life
Director
1965
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Paul Bryan
1963
The Big Lebowski
Jackie Treehorn
1998
Arrest and Trial
Nick Anderson
1963
Ninho da Serpente
Self
1982
Dogville
Jack McKay
2003
The Thomas Crown Affair
Andrew Wallace
1999
L'onore e il rispetto
Don Fred Di Venanzio
2006
Strangers
Doctor
1996
Anatomy of a Murder
Lt. Frederick Manion
1959
Buffalo '66
Jimmy Brown
1998
Paris Je T'aime
Ben (Quartier Latin)
2006
13
Schlondorff
2010
Road House
Brad Wesley
1989
Armchair Theatre
Jim Mason
1956
Pope John Paul II
Kardinal Agostino Casaroli
2005
Shadow Conspiracy
Vicepresident Saxon
1997
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
'O Professore di Vesuviano
2025
Summer of Sam
Luigi
1999
The Bridge at Remagen
Sgt. Angelo
1969
Voyage of the Damned
Morris Troper
1976
Happiness
Lenny Jordan
1998
The Spanish Prisoner
Mr. Klein
1997
QB VII
Abe Cady
1974
Quiet Flows the Don
General Secretov
2006
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Anson 'Kip' Roberts
1977
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Serking
1981
Opening Night
Manny Victor
1977
The Girl from Trieste
Dino Romani
1982
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Cosmo Vittelli
1976
The Professor
'O Professore di Vesuviano
1986
Capone
Al Capone
1975
Saint Jack
Jack Flowers
1979
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
1985
They All Laughed
John Russo
1981
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Card Player
1969
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
1970
A Rage to Live
Roger Bannon
1965
Poor Liza
The Narrator
2000
Hysterical Blindness
Nick
2002
Dogville Confessions
Self
2004
Pupetta, Woman of Honor
Don Otello Di Bella
2013
The Neptune Factor
Cmdr. Adrian Blake
1973
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
2021
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003
The Young Doctors
Dr. David Coleman
1961
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
1987
Too Tired to Die
John Sage
1998
Convict Cowboy
Warden Ferguson
1995
A Question of Honor
Detective Joe DeFalco
1982
When Michael Calls
Doremus Connelly
1972
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Capt. Tom Wright
1987
People Like Us
Gus Bailey
1990
Inchon
Maj. Frank Hallsworth
1981
Quicker Than the Eye
Ben Norell
1989
Bloodline
Rhys Williams
1979
The Passionate Thief
Lello
1960
The Death of Richie
George Werner
1977
Don Bosco
Don Giovanni Bosco
1988
Quiet Flows The Don
Secretov
2006
Husbands
Harry
1970Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
An Early Frost
Nick Pierson
1985
A Constant Forge
Self
2000The Troublemakers
Stanley Carr
1957
Vicious Circles
March
1997
Bitter Champagne
Paul Rivière
1986
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
1982Ristabbanna
2012
Convicts 4
John Resko
1962
Chez Gino
Oncle Giovanni
2011
Shark in a Bottle
The Arranger
2000
Carol for Another Christmas
Fred
1964
Christopher Roth
Paul Andersen
2010
Conquered City
Captain George Stubbs
1962
Blindsided
Ira Gold
1993
Stag
Frank Grieco
1997
Fireball Forward
Maj. Gen Joe Barrett
1972
A Letter to Three Wives
Porter Holloway
1985
The List
D.A. Bernard Salman
2000
Lies Before Kisses
Grant Sanders
1991
Donne sbagliate
Franco Maresco
2007
The Making of 'Husbands'
Self
1971
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
Self
2014
Brian's Song
Coach Halas
2001Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
Amenophis III
1994
Control
Mike Zella
1987
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
1958
Very Mean Men
Gino Minetti
2000
The Strange One
Jocko de Paris
1957
A Prince Called Toto
Self
2007
Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage
Joseph Bonanno
1993You'll Never See Me Again
Jim Mason
1959
Ladykiller
Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky
1996
Farmer & Chase
Farmer
1997
My Dearest Son
Antonio Morelli
1985
The Window Over the Way
1993
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Self
2014
Downpayment on Murder
Harry Cardell
1987Empire State Building Murders
Paulie Genovese
2008John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
Self
1996
Illuminata
Old Flavio
1998
Il tesoro di Damasco
Gregorio Kos
1998
Eve
Joe
2008
Blue Moon
Frank Cavallo
2000
Nella terra di nessuno
L'avvocato Scalzi
2000
Woman of Wonders
Alberto
1985
Droit de Réponse
Self
1981
Valentine's Day
Joe Buddha
1998Bonjour Michel
michele Terranova
2005
Beyond the Ocean
John Tana
1990Beyond the Ocean
Writer
1990Beyond the Ocean
Director
1990
The Sicilian Connection
Joseph Coppola
1972
Holy Money
Vatican's Banker
2009
Undertaker's Paradise
Jim
2000
The Shore
Mr. Bob Harris
2005
Parallel Lives
Charlie Duke
1994
The Family Rico
Eddie Rico
1972Arena - John Cassavetes
Self
1989
The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes
Self
2009
Marilyn in Manhattan
Self
1998
Believe
2000
Uno scandalo perbene
The man with no memory
1984
Jack of Hearts
Batossa
2000
Il Volo
2010
Looking for Palladin
Jack Palladin
2008
Pursuit
Steven Graves
1972
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Moshe
1994Piovuto dal cielo
2000
Anything for John
Self
1993
The Zone
Dick Althorp
1995
High Velocity
Clifford Baumgartner
1976
Forever
Marcelo
1991
Paradise Cove
Duke Mantee
1999
Angelo Nero
Padre Guelfi
1998
Bandits
Amos
1995
L'ospite segreto
Ispettore di Polizia Solomos
2003
Maneater
Nick Baron
1973