Tribute: Ben Gazzara Biography & Movies
- #news
- #headline
Figure timeline
Ben Gazzara
Biagio Anthony "Ben" Gazzara was an American actor and director of film, stage, and television. He received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Drama Desk Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and three Tony Awards.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · American actor (1930–2012) · director · character actor · screenwriter · television actor · stage actor · film actor · actor · television director · film director · also Ben Gazzara, Biagio Anthony Gazzarra, Gazzara
Born 28 August 1930 · Died 3 February 2012 · Q296287
19 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
3 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Award
- Award
2025· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
The Cheat Sheet: Why Ben Gazzara Was Never Seen on a ‘Frasier’ Episode: His Spectacularly Weird Request
- #news
- #headline
2012· 7 entries
Global Times: Actor Ben Gazzara dies at 81, leaving behind legacy on stage, screen
- #news
- #headline
Deadline.com: R.I.P. Ben Gazzara
- #news
- #headline
Los Angeles Times: Ben Gazzara, 81, leaves a rich, gruff legacy in theater and film
- #news
- #headline
The Boston Globe: Ben Gazzara, intense actor on television, stage, and in movies for five decades
- #news
- #headline
Houston Chronicle: Ben Gazzara, a risk-taking actor, dies at 81
- #news
- #headline
Died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Died 2012-02-03.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
2005· 2 entries
Awarded Donostia Award (2005).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Played Agostino Casaroli in the television miniseries Pope John Paul II
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2003· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Hysterical Blindness (2003).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Appeared in Nobody Don't Like Yogi, an off-Broadway play by Tom Lysaght about Yogi Berra that had a solid run and national tour, and was also in a revival of Awake and Sing
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1998· 1 entry
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1968· 1 entry
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1956· 1 entry
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1954· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1954).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Gazzara (having modified his original surname from "Gazzarra") made several appearances in NBC's legal drama Justice, based on case studies from the Legal Aid Society of New York
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-08-28.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth