Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival) 1975 Profumo di donna Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI (September 1, 1922 – June 29, 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements (which made him greatly popular)..