Johnny Dorelli
Birthday: Born in 1937-02-20 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Johnny Dorelli (born 20 February 1937) is an Italian actor, singer and showman. Born as Giorgio Guidi in Meda, he debuted as singer in the late 1950s for CGD label. In 1958 he won the Sanremo Festival in duo with Domenico Modugno, with the songs "Nel blu dipinto di blu" (also known as "Volare") and "Piove (Ciao ciao bambina)". "L'immensità" earned Dorelli a ninth place at the 1967 edition of the Sanremo Song Festival. His greatest success was the musical Aggiungi un posto a tavola, which was also performed at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End in an English version entitled Beyond the Rainbow in 1978. After a period of absence, he returned to success in the 1980s. In 1983, he played St. Philip Neri in Luigi Magni's TV film State buoni se potete. Dorelli's latest feature film role is in Pupi Avati's Ma quando arrivano le ragazze (2004). After marriages to actresses Lauretta Masiero and Catherine Spaak (1972–1979), he is currently married to Gloria Guida, a former actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Johnny Dorelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Domenica In
Character: Self
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Cuore
Character: Maestro Perboni
Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father....
Festival di Sanremo
Character: Self - Host
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest....
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Tit for Tat
Character: Emanuele Sansoni
Funny adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger - broken financial genius....
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Character: Carlo Caprioli
A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness....
How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover
Character: Alberto Castelli
Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was....
Bread and Chocolate
Character: Italian Industrialist
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?...
State buoni se potete
Character: Don Filippo Neri
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel....
The Odd Squad
Character: Ten. Federico Tocci
Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!...
God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up
Character: Don Celeste Restani
At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court....
The Fiend
Character: Valerio Barigozzi
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits....
How to Kill 400 Duponts
Character: Dorellik
Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance....
I'm Getting a Yacht
Character: Dr. Piero Savelli
A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens....
Let's Make It Clear
Character: Alberto Catuzzi
The young manager of a small television station loses his sight following an accident. When he buys her back, thanks to a new accident, he discovers that his wife is cheating on him, that his best friend has sold the television and that the girl he was falling in love with is only an investigator of the insurance company....
My Loves
Character: Marco Rossi
Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find another husband, the university professor Antonio, who marries without the first being able to notice it. Until she gets pregnant. David di Donatello 1979 for Monica Vitti....
Sweetheart
Character: Alfredo Meneghini
Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him....
The Persian Lamb Coat
Character: Piero / Maurice
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then......
Sesso e volentieri
Character: Husband of Linda / Nino Pacini / Luca / Client of Antonio / Pino Franceschi / Garbelli / Giorgio Giovanardi / Supermarket client / Vito Punturieri / Stelio Rapazzoni
Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme....
Keep It To Yourself!
Character: Antonio Bormioli
Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone....
Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi
Character: Ottavio Del Bon (segment "Il teorema gregoriano")
For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a supposed extraterrestrial who is actually a young Swedish man who "works" for certain American psychologists....
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Character: Don Silvestro
Father Silvestro receives a phone call from God telling him He intends to send the second flood to earth. The priest then decides to seek help from his compatriots to build a new Noah’s Ark. But to achieve their objectives they must overcome the obstacles that mayor Crispino puts in their way....
Cantando sotto le stelle
Character: Paolo
A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket....
I Don't Understand You Anymore
Character: Paolo Malpieri
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....
We Met One Evening
Character: Odeon Prandoni
An industrial worker from the mid-seventies encounters the stout daughter of a wealthy American businessman. The daughter falls in love with the worker and begins to pursue him....
Tesoro mio
Character: Enrico Moroni
Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood....
And Agnes Chose to Die
Character: Walter
After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside....
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Character: Il mago Gaspar (episodio "Il mago")
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs....
Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Character: Francesco Salmarani
Francesco Salmarani, a well-known doctor from Treviso, suddenly finds himself with an overdraft bank account as his wife's father has come from America demanding the purchase of a large Palladian villa. Tired of his wife, Francesco consoles himself with Paola and then lets himself be ensnared by the very young and beautiful Mary, who has come as housekeeper and father-in-law's lover. The need to fill the administrative gaps and the dream of running away with Mary lead the doctor to organize a co...
Hot Spirits
Character: Giovanni degli Uberti / Guiscardo
Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?...
Zeno's Conscience
Character: Zeno Cosini
La coscienza di Zeno is a TV adaptation of the 1923 novel by Italo Svevo. It was broadcasted by RAI in 1988....
Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?
Character: Ludovico Zanichelli
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La Presidentessa
Character: Ottavio Beghin
Gobette, a young avant-garde dancer, finds herself unemployed after the closure of the provincial club where she performs. By pure coincidence, Cipriano Gaudet, Minister of Justice, meets her at a judge's house and, convinced that she is the wife of the subordinate, gives promotions to the unsuspecting representative of the law in order to remove him from the woman and be able to get married with the soubrette. .....
Guardatele ma non toccatele
Character: tenente Altieri
An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers....
Love in 4 Easy Lessons
Character: Marco Antonioli (segment "La visita")
Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations....
Tipi da spiaggia
Character: Giorgio Binotti
Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends....
The Girl of San Pietro Square
Character: Self
Armando Conforti, his family and his friends have a business: they sell souvenirs near St. Peter's, in Rome, they change dollars, in short they get along....
Divorzio alla siciliana
Character:
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Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
Character: Self
A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi....
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Character: Don Silvestro
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