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Acting

Ben Gazzara

Career: Active from 1957 to 2025, with a break from 2012 to 2024, busiest in 2000 with 8 main titles.

Leading roles: 72
top three billing

Average score: 57/100

Highest rated: Anatomy of a Murder
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 57 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ben Gazzara Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.4, average 1.7
Coming of Age
1.8, average 3.0
Situational Comedy
1.6, average 2.7
Wholesome
2.3, average 3.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 9
Moral Ambiguity 6
Character Study 6
Social Commentary 4
Mystery 3
Power Dynamics 3
Gritty Realism 3
Psychological Drama 3
Thought-Provoking 3
Character-Driven Drama 3
Psychological Study 3
Corporate Intrigue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

114

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore

TV show · as 'O Professore di Vesuviano

2010s

4 titles · average score 36

Pupetta, Woman of Honor

TV show · as Don Otello Di Bella

Chez Gino

43

as Oncle Giovanni

Christopher Roth

30

as Paul Andersen

34

as Schlondorff

2000s

24 titles · average score 59

Eve

58

as Joe

Looking for Palladin

30

as Jack Palladin

Quiet Flows the Don

62

TV show · as General Secretov

The Shore

63

as Mr. Bob Harris

Pope John Paul II

66

TV show · as Kardinal Agostino Casaroli

as michele Terranova

Dogville

74

as Jack McKay

Hysterical Blindness

69

as Nick

Poor Liza

as The Narrator

Very Mean Men

56

as Gino Minetti

Shark in a Bottle

as The Arranger

Blue Moon

36

as Frank Cavallo

1990s

31 titles · average score 57

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

73

TV show · as E.A.D.A.

Buffalo '66

74

as Jimmy Brown

Happiness

80

as Lenny Jordan

The Spanish Prisoner

77

as Mr. Klein

Vicious Circles

41

as March

Ladykiller

44

as Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky

The Zone

46

as Dick Althorp

Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage

62

as Joseph Bonanno

Blindsided

50

as Ira Gold

Lies Before Kisses

55

as Grant Sanders

Forever

as Marcelo

People Like Us

59

as Gus Bailey

1980s

18 titles · average score 54

Road House

51

as Brad Wesley

Quicker Than the Eye

as Ben Norell

Don Bosco

as Don Giovanni Bosco

Control

57

as Mike Zella

The Professor

70

as 'O Professore di Vesuviano

Bitter Champagne

as Paul Rivière

An Early Frost

70

as Nick Pierson

Uno scandalo perbene

as The man with no memory

The Girl from Trieste

54

as Dino Romani

Tales of Ordinary Madness

62

as Charles Serking

Inchon

15

as Maj. Frank Hallsworth

They All Laughed

57

as John Russo

1970s

18 titles · average score 57

Saint Jack

60

as Jack Flowers

Bloodline

39

as Rhys Williams

Opening Night

81

as Manny Victor

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

TV show · as Anson 'Kip' Roberts

The Death of Richie

67

as George Werner

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

72

as Cosmo Vittelli

Capone

39

as Al Capone

QB VII

77

TV show · as Abe Cady

The Neptune Factor

37

as Cmdr. Adrian Blake

When Michael Calls

53

as Doremus Connelly

Pursuit

45

as Steven Graves

Husbands

60

as Harry

1960s

12 titles · average score 61

The Bridge at Remagen

42

as Sgt. Angelo

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

60

as Card Player

Run for Your Life

73

TV show · as Paul Bryan

A Rage to Live

52

as Roger Bannon

Carol for Another Christmas

63

as Fred

Arrest and Trial

TV show · as Nick Anderson

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

66

TV show · as Sidney

Kraft Suspense Theatre

70

TV show · as Paul Bryan

Conquered City

as Captain George Stubbs

Convicts 4

54

as John Resko

The Young Doctors

58

as Dr. David Coleman

The Passionate Thief

71

as Lello

1950s

6 titles · average score 71

Anatomy of a Murder

90

as Lt. Frederick Manion

You'll Never See Me Again

as Jim Mason

Three Plays by Tennessee Williams

as Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")

The Strange One

57

as Jocko de Paris

The Troublemakers

as Stanley Carr

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Jim Mason