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Born to Italian immigrants, Antonio Gazzara and Angela Consumano, Gazzara grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. He attended New York City's famed Stuyvesant High School. He found relief from his bleak surroundings by joining a theater company at a very young age. Years later, he said that the discovery of his love for acting saved him from a life of crime during his teenage years. Despite his obvious talent, he went to City College of New York to study electrical engineering. After two years, he gave it up, and after a short intermission joined the Actor's Studio. Mural on Orchard Street and Houston Street by artist Marco L.E.S. redirects here. ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City)[1] is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... The Actors Studio is a theatrical school and workshop located in the Old Labor Stage on 44th Street in New York City. ...

In the 1950s, he starred in various Broadway productions, most notably Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, directed by Elia Kazan. However, he lost out on the film role to Paul Newman. As a young actor, Gazzara joined other Actors Studio members in the 1957 film, The Strange One. This does not cite its references or sources. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a Tony-nominated play by Tennessee Williams. ... Elia Kazan, (Greek: Ηλίας Καζάν, IPA: ), (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. ... Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award winning American iconic actor and film director. ... The Strange One is a 1957 film about a military academy in the South (of the United States). ...

He has had a long and varied acting career, with spells as an accomplished director too (TV mostly). His most popular acting roles include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Young Doctors (1961), A Rage to Live (1965), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), Capone (1975), Voyage of the Damned (1976), and High Velocity (1977). He also starred in a couple of television series, beginning with Arrest and Trial, which ran from 1963 until 1964 on ABC, and the more successful series Run for Your Life from 1965 to 1968 on NBC. Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 film which tells the story of a man charged with murdering a man who may have raped his wife; the bulk of the films plot revolves around the drama as it unfolds in court. ... The Young Doctors is a 1961 film starring Ben Gazzara, Fredric March, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert, Phyllis Love, Aline MacMahon, George Segal and Dolph Sweet. ... The Bridge at Remagen is a war film released in 1969. ... Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 film drama inspired by true events concerning the fate of an ocean liner carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939. ... Arrest and Trial was a 90-minute crime drama that aired one season on ABC. The show was set in Los Angeles and aired Sundays from 8:30-10 p. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Run for Your Life was a television series starring Ben Gazzara which ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

His most formidable appearances, however, were characters he created for his friend John Cassavetes in the 1970s. They collaborated for the first time on Cassavetes' film Husbands (1970) where he appeared alongside Peter Falk and Cassavetes himself. The collaboration of the two men achieved its peak in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie in which Gazzara took the leading role of the hapless strip joint owner, Cosmo Vitelli. In order to pay off a gambling debt to the mob, Vitelli agrees to kill a Chinese unknown to him. Against all odds, he succeeds in killing the man, but he gets severely wounded during his flight. But the gangsters turn against him, as they had not expected him to survive the assassination and Vitelli is forced to kill these men too. The plot itself hardly describes the true meaning of the movie, as John Cassavetes did everything to keep it from turning into an ordinary genre flick. Gazzara delivered a life-like portrayal of a simple man who found his happiness in running a third-rate strip bar, and who gets caught in something that is much too big for him. Sometimes he does not even seem to understand the whole meaning of it. The little emotional involvement that Gazzara's character shows during the events is played with stunning accuracy, with Gazzara's performance and Cassavetes' direction complementing each other. A year later Gazzara starred in yet another Cassavetes-directed movie, Opening Night, playing the role of stage director Manny Victor who struggles with the mentally unstable star of his show, played by Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands. John Nicholas Cassavetes (Greek: Ιωάννης Νικολάου Κασσαβέττης) (December 9, 1929–February 3, 1989) was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Husbands is a 1970 film written and directed by John Cassavetes. ... Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor. ... The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 gangster film directed and written by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara. ... Opening Night is the first performance of a stage show to the public. ... Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress. ...

In the 1980s, he could be seen in a variety of different movies, such as Saint Jack and They All Laughed (directed by Peter Bogdanovich), Road House or Quicker Than the Eye (1989). He also appeared in the critically acclaimed AIDS-themed TV movie An Early Frost (1985), which also starred Gena Rowlands. Saint Jack is a 1973 fictional book by Paul Theroux and a 1979 film of the same name. ... They All Laughed is a 1981 movie directed by Peter Bogdanovich. ... Peter Bogdanovich Peter Bogdanovich (born July 30, 1939) is an American film director and writer, born in Kingston, New York. ... Road House is a 1948 film noir starring Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm and Richard Widmark. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... An Early Frost was the first major film to deal with the topic of HIV/AIDS. It was first broadcast on NBC on November 11, 1985. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the 1990's, he appeared in 38 films, among these many TV productions. In Hollywood movies he mostly appeared as a supporting actor, but worked with several renowned directors, such as the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski), Spike Lee (Summer of Sam), and John McTiernan (The Thomas Crown Affair). This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Big Lebowski, a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, chronicles a few days in the life of an unemployed California slacker and recreational bowler after he is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. ... Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. ... DVD cover Summer of Sam is a 1999 film about the Son of Sam serial murders. ... John McTiernan (born January 8, 1951) is a movie director, and a M.F.A. graduate of the AFI Conservatory, most notable for his action movies. ... The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 English language film, a remake of the 1968 film of the same name. ...

Now in his seventies, Gazzara is still acting. In 2003, he appeared in the film Dogville, directed by Danish enfant terrible Lars von Trier, alongside Nicole Kidman. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård and James Caan, among others. ... From the French meaning terrible child, an enfant terrible is one whose startlingly unconventional behavior, work, or thought embarrasses or disturbs others. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... Nicole Mary Kidman AC born June 20, 1967, is an Academy Award-winning Australian[1] actress. ...

External link

• Ben Gazzara at the Internet Movie Database