Gigi Proietti
Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (2 November 1940 – 2 November 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, musician, singer and television presenter. After several stage works, in 1966 Proietti debuted both in cinema, in Pleasant Nights, and on television, in the TV series I grandi camaleonti. His first personal success came in 1971, when he replaced Domenico Modugno in the stage musical Alleluja brava gente by Garinei & Giovannini, starring alongside Renato Rascel. In 1974, after playing the role of Neri Chiaramantesi in the drama La cena delle beffe, alongside Carmelo Bene and Vittorio Gassman, in 1976 started a fruitful collaboration with playwright Roberto Lerici, with whom he wrote and directed his stage plays, starting with the one-man show A me gli occhi, please (Give me your eyes, please, 1976, reported on the scene in 1993, 1996 and 2000, in a memorable performance at the Olympic Stadium in his hometown). Initially planned to be performed 6 times, the show exceeded 300 performances, with an average audience of 2,000 per performance. He took part in several international movies, including The Appointment (1969), directed by Sidney Lumet, A Wedding (1978), directed by Robert Altman, and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), directed by Ted Kotcheff. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gigi Proietti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Pinocchio
as MangiafuocoIn this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a...
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Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films
as Professor SilenzioAn Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast...
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Beach House
as GigiSummer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's...
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D'Artagnan's Daughter
as Giulio MazarinoIt is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where...
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Bambina
as Saverio MazzacolliIn order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday...
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I Am Santa Claus
as Nicola Natalizzi/Babbo NataleEttore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere...
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Il premio
as Giovanni PassamonteAfter winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons...
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Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven
as San Filippo NeriOne of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great...
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Horse Fever
as Bruno "Mandrake" FiorettiBruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the...
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Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
as Mandrake/Bruno FiorettiMandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races....
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The Jokes
as il Padreterno/cameriere/portantino ospedaliero/cantante messicano/contadino/avvocato e cliente/direttore d'orchestraIn many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian...
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Brancaleone at the Crusades
as Pattume; Colombino; la MorteAfter saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to...
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A summer at the sea
as Giulio / NarratorSet against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about...
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
as RavelloMystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being...
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A Summer in the Caribbean
as AlbertoSeveral groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean...
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A Wedding
as Dino Corelli IMuffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure...
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Istintobrass
as SelfOne of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored...
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Bubu
as Giulio - the ThiefBubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on...
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Ma tu di che segno 6?
as Avvocato Giuliano De MarchisFive searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male...
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Property Is No Longer a Theft
as PacoA young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best...
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Lady Liberty
as Michel BruniAn Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage...
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Life Is a Wonderful Thing
as ClaudioA policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who...
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The Howl
as Carlo detto 'Coso'A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic...
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Indovina chi viene a Natale?
as Leonardo SereniA very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner...
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The Inheritance
as Pippo FerramontiIn 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates...
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The Libertine
as Sandro MaldiniA sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she...
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I Don't Understand You Anymore
as Alberto SpinelliOn entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and...
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Dropout
as CiecoItalian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.
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The Appointment
as uncreditedLawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one...
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The Sex Machine
as Prof. Enrico CoppolaThe year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the...
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FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
as Curtatone
All at Sea
as SmemoratoEvery morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush...
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Fellini of the Spirits
as Self2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Federico Fellini, the most prominent Italian director...
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Sue Me
as Luigi MarchettiJudge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always...
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Catch As Catch Can
as TruccatoreBob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal...
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Dirty Linen
as Prof. Rodolfo MelchiorriThe Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their...
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Meo Patacca
as Meo PataccaAdapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young...
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We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
as SelfDocumentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away...
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La Tosca
as Mario CavaradossiRome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant....
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House of Pleasure for Women
as Ivanoe (as Luigi Proietti)The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have...
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Let's Talk About Women
as Omero (uncredited)Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual...
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A Rather Complicated Girl
as PietroHaving casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to...
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Languidi baci... perfide carezze
as Orfeo ScardamazziItalian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi
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Orders are Orders
as Mario PasiniGiorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice...
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Pleasant Nights
as Maresciallo (as Luigi Proietti)A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
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Soldier's Girl
as Cesare BottazziAnita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would...
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Mille bolle blu
as NarratoreThe movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome...
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Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
as SelfThis brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the...
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Vietnam guerra senza fronte
as VoceDocumentary directed by Alessandro Perrone.
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I 7 Re di Roma
as Tiberino, Enea, Fauno Luperco, Romolo, Numa Pompilio, Tullo Ostilio, padre degli Orazi, Anco Marzio, Tarquinio Prisco, Servio Tullio, Tarquinio il Superbo, Bruto
Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Sonia / FilippoFilm in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who...
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Alberto il grande
as SelfDocu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth...
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Two Pieces of Bread
as AlbergatoreTwo minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same...
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Il veterinario
as Gigi GarulliGigi Garulli is a veterinarian who lives with his wife and two children in a beautiful villa. In...
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La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia
as Don Chisciotte della Mancia
Great Performances
as FergusonThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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I Cesaroni
as Se stessoI Cesaroni is an Italian television series produced since 2006 by Publispei and Mediaset RTI....
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Ulisse. Il piacere della scoperta
as SelfAlberto Angela leads the dissemination program dedicated to history, art and culture. A...
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Meraviglie. La penisola dei tesori
as uncreditedThe beautiful Italy
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Il maresciallo Rocca
as Maresciallo Giovanni RoccaThe adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi...
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L'avvocato Porta
as Antonio PortaL'avvocato Porta is an Italian television series.
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Tartarino sulle Alpi
as uncreditedTartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is...
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Villa Arzilla
as Il giardiniereVilla Arzilla is an Italian television series.
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