He followed this with '' Paris , My Love '' and then a segment of '' I cuori infranti '' which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival . '' The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale '' in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film . He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television , where he began his career in 1959 , but he never really loved the small screen ( " I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public , which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate " ) . In the Sixties he acted in '' Village Wooing '' , directed by Antonello Falqui , and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show , which he wrote and interpreted , '' Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli '' . In his last years he returned to theater interpreting , among others , Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni 's '' Bottega del caffè '' , '' The Sunshine Boys '' by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto , and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello 's '' Six Characters in Search of an Author '' . During the rehearsals of a interpretation of '' Napoli Milionaria '' , he died suddenly at the age of 68 , in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples , struck down by a heart attack .
67th Venice International Film Festival
67th Venice International Film Festival
Vittorio Caprioli