Gigi Ballista
Gigi Ballista (1 December 1918 – 2 August 1980) was an Italian film and television actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1961 and 1980. Born in Florence, Ballista graduated in Law, then he started working as a PR consultant in the field of advertising and industrial documentaries. He debuted as an actor at a mature age in the early 1960s with some minor roles, but his breakout came in 1966 with a role of weight in Pietro Germi's The Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Following the critical and commercial success of the film, Ballista decided to pursue a professional career as an actor, and he became, mainly thanks to his characteristic hoarse and dysphonic voice, one of the most recognizable character actors in Italian cinema and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gigi Ballista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Midnight Express
as Chief JudgeBilly Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to...
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Salon Kitty
as GeneralKitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have...
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Stavisky...
as Gaston HenrietIrresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make...
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Padre PolentaDuring World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
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The Sunday Woman
as VolleroPolice commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr....
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1001 Nights of Pleasure
as Genie in LampSultan Almamud suddenly becomes powerless, unable to enjoy his beautiful Zumurud. The...
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Lady Caliph
as Il principe industrialeLa Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her...
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Policewoman
as avvocatoA young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan...
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Roma bene
as VitozziA parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
as DottoreIn Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in...
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Confessions of a Lady Cop
as Questore MorettiGianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the...
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Horse Fever
as Count DallaraBruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the...
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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
as Giacinto CastellanAn anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the...
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Trastevere
as CountA retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the...
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The Family Vice
as Conte GiosuèWhen Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to...
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Do Not Commit Adultery
as Padre SpiridionePino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and...
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Giovannona Long-Thigh
as Commendatore La NoceWhen a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the...
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Black Turin
as MarinottiMino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his...
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The Maniacs
as Count at the Party (segment "l'hobby") (uncredited)An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures...
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Pleasant Nights
as Luca di MontemerloA trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
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Galileo
as commissario domenicanoA humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of...
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The Schoolmate
as GirardiLilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this...
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How I Learned to Love Women
as sir ArchibaldAn erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
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The Queens
as The Priest ("Fata Marta")Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina" chronicles the sexual...
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Blume in Love
as Older ManLawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his...
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Emma Hamilton
as Cardinal RuffoThe Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by...
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Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
as EngineerWhen Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will...
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The Climax
as Don MicheleA violin player is going to be father of a sixth child by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite...
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La madama
as The VenetianIn the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word...
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Under the Sheets
as Professor CiottiThree medical students who are reluctant to hit the books and unwilling to work are much more...
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No One Will Notice You're Naked
as Silvio BorelonRosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his...
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Poker in Bed
as comm. Gervasio CaminataA poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she...
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Italian Sex
as padre di CarlettoA sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it...
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The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
as AldoWhen an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates...
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The Lady Has Been Raped
as CariniGood bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the...
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L'assistente sociale tutto pepe
as BishopNadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line....
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I Hate Blondes
as PsychiatristThere are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow...
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Snow Job
as uncreditedA famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a...
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Fischia Il Sesso
as Mr. LewisA girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who...
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Il morbidone
as uncreditedStudy of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.
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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
as direttore Filiberto RossettiFranco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides...
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Il fischio al naso
as medicoIn this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a...
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Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
as Cornelius da MediolanumThe adventures of the Etruscan Cassiodorus who, after having involuntarily captured a rebel, is...
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Liquirizia
as BartolozziTwo groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants -...
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Brigitte, Laura, Ursula, Monica, Raquel, Litz, Florinda, Barbara, Claudia, e Sofia le chiamo tutte... anima mia
as Filippo TornabuoniInsatiable playboy Marco Donati decides to marry his latest flame, the beautiful Francesca. When...
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Sunstroke
as Conte MalvezziOne Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped...
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
as Il medicoAfter many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his...
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Una storia d'amore
as BorgogniniA married woman falls in love with a playboy dedicated to blackmail, to avoid that reveal his...
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Un amore targato Forlì
as uncreditedThe young Rimini native Stefano Santi goes to Rome, with a letter of recommendation for the...
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Blessed Are the Rich
as CommendatoreTwo brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of...
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Mala, Love and Death
as Carlo Alberto GiorgiThe young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.
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Il furto della gioconda
as PoupardinA miniseries in three parts about the theft of Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in 1911.
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