Gigi Proietti
Birthday: Born in 1940-11-02 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Deathday: 2020-11-02
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.
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Ulisse. Il piacere della scoperta
Character: Self
Alberto Angela leads the dissemination program dedicated to history, art and culture. A historical, archaeological, informative story, with the presence of some protagonists of the Italian cultural or artistic scene....
L'ultimo Papa Re
Character: cardinal Romeo Colombo da Priverno
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Il Circolo Pickwick
Character: Jingle
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Cavalli di battaglia
Character: Self
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Il maresciallo Rocca
Character: Maresciallo Giovanni Rocca
The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmaci...
Italian Restaurant
Character: Giulio Broccoli
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TV Story Superstar
Character: Self (archive footage)
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Villa Arzilla
Character: Il giardiniere
Villa Arzilla is an Italian television series....
I Cesaroni
Character: Se stesso
I Cesaroni is an Italian television series produced since 2006 by Publispei and Mediaset RTI. The series is transmitted not only in Italy but also in Portugal, in the Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey. It is inspired by the Spanish series "Los Serrano". In Italy, the series is now in its fifth season and has been renewed for a sixth season....
Meraviglie. La penisola dei tesori
Character:
The beautiful Italy...
Una pallottola nel cuore
Character: Bruno Plamieri
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Tartarino sulle Alpi
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Tartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is the second part of a trilogy which also includes Tartarin de Tarascon (published in 1885) and Porto Tarascona (published in 1890). Seeing his position as president of the Alpine Club of Tarascon threatened because of his fellow citizen Costecalde, who questions his abilities as a mountaineer, Tartarin travels to the Bernese Alps to accomplish a memorable feat. In 1968, a television transposition of Tart...
L'avvocato Porta
Character: Antonio Porta
L'avvocato Porta is an Italian television series....
Great Performances
Character: Ferguson
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries....
Movie Credits
Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
Character: Self
Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020...
The Howl
Character: Carlo detto 'Coso'
A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and mournful exhibitionists, converse with a discoursing rock, journey through a surrealist's psychedelic hotel, instigate a prison riot, escape from naked cannibals living in a tree and battle a wind-up midget dictator!...
A qualcuno piacerà - Storia e storie di Elio Pandolfi
Character: Sé stesso
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Character: Ravello
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved....
Gigi Proietti Show - A me gli occhi 2000
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Serata d'Onore: Gigi Proietti
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Life Is a Wonderful Thing
Character: Claudio
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing ......
Piccoli borghesi
Character: Nil
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The Jokes
Character: il Padreterno/cameriere/portantino ospedaliero/cantante messicano/contadino/avvocato e cliente/direttore d'orchestra
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000....
FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
Character: Curtatone
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Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
Character: Mandrake/Bruno Fioretti
Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?...
The Appointment
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Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls....
All at Sea
Character: Smemorato
Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After being assured that his attendants, and Khaled Omar, they did a good job, going to hoist the Italian flag, which stands on top of building....
Bambina
Character: Saverio Mazzacolli
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl......
The Libertine
Character: Sandro Maldini
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality....
A summer at the sea
Character: Giulio / Narrator
Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship....
Beach House
Character: Gigi
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time....
Sue Me
Character: Luigi Marchetti
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems....
Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven
Character: San Filippo Neri
One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to join St. Ignatius of Loyola's new order of Jesuits and be a missionary to India, Philip was instead guided by Providence to seek out the poor and abandoned youth of Rome to catechize them in the faith and help them find a better life. He became the founder of the religious congregation, the Oratory, that worked with the youth and also labored to re...
Bubu
Character: Giulio - the Thief
Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find their place in the world of prostitutes and pimps, but the lack of perspective in their life - which is permanently haunted by the possibility of an incurable and fatal venereal infection - and the humiliations the girl endures strain their relationship and lead to conflicts....
Mille bolle blu
Character: Narratore
The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends....
Pleasant Nights
Character: Maresciallo (as Luigi Proietti)
A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages....
Catch As Catch Can
Character: Truccatore
Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!...
Lady Liberty
Character: Michel Bruni
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal....
Vietnam guerra senza fronte
Character: Voce
Documentary directed by Alessandro Perrone....
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Character: Sonia / Filippo
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant....
La Tosca
Character: Mario Cavaradossi
Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped from prison and the chief of police is on his tail. Angelotti is being helped by a painter, lover of "La Tosca", a famous singer. The police chief suspects the truth and tries to arouse the jealousy of "La Tosca" to catch the escapee....
House of Pleasure for Women
Character: Ivanoe (as Luigi Proietti)
The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, who becames the attraction of the House....
I Don't Understand You Anymore
Character: Alberto Spinelli
On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise....
Orders are Orders
Character: Mario Pasini
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary....
Edipo Re
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Dirty Linen
Character: Prof. Rodolfo Melchiorri
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth....
Ma tu di che segno 6?
Character: Avvocato Giuliano De Marchis
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology....
A Wedding
Character: Dino Corelli I
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion....
Horse Fever
Character: Bruno "Mandrake" Fioretti
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet....
Meo Patacca
Character: Meo Patacca
Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition of his woman, is having to train a group of beggars to go fight in defense of Christianity in Vienna, besieged by the Turks....
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Character: Self
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We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....
The Sex Machine
Character: Prof. Enrico Coppola
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion....
Il veterinario
Character: Gigi Garulli
Gigi Garulli is a veterinarian who lives with his wife and two children in a beautiful villa. In addition to being a veterinarian, Gigi is also the quality manager at Sgnak, a pet food factory owned by his father-in-law. But when the factory, and in particular Gigi, are accused by consumers for a batch of spoiled morsels, trouble begins....
Speciale Ulisse: Viaggio senza ritorno
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Soldier's Girl
Character: Cesare Bottazzi
Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world....
Dropout
Character: Cieco
Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love....
A Summer in the Caribbean
Character: Alberto
Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there simply for rest and relaxation, while others act with different motivations. Multiple plot lines unfold simultaneously as different characters' stories are presented....
I 7 Re di Roma
Character: Tiberino, Enea, Fauno Luperco, Romolo, Numa Pompilio, Tullo Ostilio, padre degli Orazi, Anco Marzio, Tarquinio Prisco, Servio Tullio, Tarquinio il Superbo, Bruto
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Indovina chi viene a Natale?
Character: Leonardo Sereni
A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a panettone factory....
Il premio
Character: Giovanni Passamonte
After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly....
The Inheritance
Character: Pippo Ferramonti
In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage, securing her inheritance....
Two Pieces of Bread
Character: Albergatore
Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, and one of them is the father of her infant son; a privilege neither is willing to concede....
Brancaleone at the Crusades
Character: Pattume; Colombino; la Morte
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades....
Let's Talk About Women
Character: Omero (uncredited)
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general....
Languidi baci... perfide carezze
Character: Orfeo Scardamazzi
Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi...
Alberto il grande
Character: Self
Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 2003. Through this documentary Verdone’s brothers with deep respect towards the Roman actor trace an affectionate and sincere portrait not only about an Artist but, above all, about a man with his habits, his ideas, his tics, his vices and his virtues. And for the first time Mrs Aurelia – Alberto Sordi’s sister who is dedicated the documentary – ope...
Un nero per casa
Character: Lorenzo Paradisi
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Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films
Character: Professor Silenzio
An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and Furious" and "The Da Vinci Code"....
Di padre in figlio
Character: Self
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D'Artagnan's Daughter
Character: Giulio Mazarino
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan....
Pinocchio
Character: Mangiafuoco
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways....
Playback - Il caso Malien
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Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Character: Self
This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic scre...
I Am Santa Claus
Character: Nicola Natalizzi/Babbo Natale
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth stealing and furthermore, the old man tells him a r...
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Character: Paco
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously....
A Rather Complicated Girl
Character: Pietro
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashame...
Mai storie d'amore in cucina
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Il signore della truffa
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Fellini of the Spirits
Character: Self
2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Federico Fellini, the most prominent Italian director and one of the symbols of the insuperable cinematic heyday of mid-20th century. Fellini had always been a mysterious director, not only in his cryptic symbolism but also in his idiosyncratic, excessive mixture of psychoanalysis, Catholicism and faith in the mysterious. In this documentary, his relationship with the paranormal, luck and fate, alongside the coexistence of organized discourse and transcend...
Istintobrass
Character: Self
One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifted experimenter, an inventor of dreams. A truly great artist....
La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia
Character: Don Chisciotte della Mancia
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