Paolo Villaggio
Birthday: Born in 1932-12-31 in Genova, Liguria, Italy
Deathday: 2017-07-03
Paolo Villaggio (30 December 1932 — 3 July 2017) was an Italian actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid Giandomenico Fracchia, and the obsequious and meek accountant Ugo Fantozzi, perhaps the favourite character in Italian comedy. He wrote several books, usually of satirical character. He also acted in dramatic roles, and appeared in several movies.
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Domenica In
Character: Self
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Giandomenico Fracchia - Sogni proibiti di uno di noi
Character: Giandomenico Fracchia
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Carabinieri
Character: Padre Paolo Benelli
Carabinieri is an Italian television series that aired on Canale 5 from March 2002 to July 30, 2008. The series is an action thriller with added elements of comedy, and has been compared to the soap opera format. It told the story of the police barracks located in Città della Pieve....
Carabinieri
Character: Giovanni Benelli
Carabinieri is an Italian television series that aired on Canale 5 from March 2002 to July 30, 2008. The series is an action thriller with added elements of comedy, and has been compared to the soap opera format. It told the story of the police barracks located in Città della Pieve....
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....
Babau
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Sogni e bisogni
Character: Orazio
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Who's Afraid of Dracula?
Character: Giandomenico Fracchia
Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!...
Tit for Tat
Character: Gino Sciaccaluga
Fun adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger, a broken financial genius....
Ciao, Professore!
Character: Marco Sperelli
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples...
Fantozzi Still Suffers
Character: Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return....
Fracchia The Human Beast
Character: Giandomenico Fracchia / La Belva Umana
The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life!...
Fantozzi Retires
Character: Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani....
Fantozzi in Heaven
Character: Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live...
Fantozzi Against the Wind
Character: Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio....
Fantozzi The Return
Character: Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy...
Fantozzi 2000 - The Cloning
Character: Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
Ugo Fantozzi was resurrected from the company where he worked because of a crisis, how it will end?Tenth and final chapter of the film series of Fantozzi character....
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Character: Arturo (episodio "Si Buana")
In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations....
Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra
Character: Della Spigola (2° episodio)
Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Episode 2: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Episode 3: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between Italy and Switzerland over a packet of cigarettes....
Teeth
Character: Dr. Cagnano
Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his e...
The Comics 2
Character: Paolo
A poster worker must remove the poster of the original movie, when the figures of Renato and Paolo suddenly moves and leaves the poster driving an ambulance dressed as nurses....
The New Comics
Character: Paolo
A few funny little novels about different aspects of life....
The Comics
Character: Paolo
Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way....
The Second Tragic Fantozzi
Character: Ugo Fantozzi
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses....
Fantozzi to the Rescue
Character: Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career....
Mr. Robinson
Character: Robi
A shipwreck strands a modern Italian businessman on a desert island. Like Robinson Crusoe he must find a way to return to civilization; unlike him--he's a 20th-century man, a totally different case....
Department Store
Character: Detenuto Turati / Robot
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store....
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
Character: Avvocato Scorza
Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations....
Super Fantozzi
Character: Ugo Fantozzi
Superfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. In this film, Fantozzi is portrayed in a surreal historical journey, from Genesis to 1980s....
Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission
Character: Paolo Casalotti
Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome....
Firefighters
Character: Paolo Casalotti
In the barracks of the "Settecamini" fire brigade in Rome, the shabby Squadra 17 tackles missions with resounding failures, waiting in vain for a chance for redemption....
School of Thieves
Character: Dalmazio Siraghi
Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude....
School of Thieves 2
Character: Dalmazio Siraghi
In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them....
Dear Goddamned Friends
Character: Dieci
In 1944 Tuscany, a group of boxers struggling through World War II stages rigged matches to earn money and travel, accompanied by a missing black American soldier and a girl resisting marriage, as they navigate the challenges of their war-torn world....
Brancaleone at the Crusades
Character: Thorz
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....
The Big Fox
Character: Ugo Maria Volpone
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?...
Strange Occasion
Character: Giobatta (episodio "Italian Superman")
Three sexy and comic episodes....
Rimini Rimini
Character: Ermenegildo Morelli
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy....
I Won the New Year's Lottery
Character: Paolo Ciottoli
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless ...
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Character: The CIA agent
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris....
Azzurro
Character: Giuseppe De Metrio
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money nece...
Quando c'era lui... caro lei!
Character: Berretta
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Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
Character: Leo Gavazzi
Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic "Bonnie and Clyde."...
A Matter of Heart
Character: Renato
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life....
Banzai
Character: Sergio Colombo
Sergio Colombo is an insurance agent. He had just gone through a divorce so he is a little bit scattered. Wanting to unwind he plans to go to vacation with a magnificent girlfriend but suddenly he is ordered off to Canada in order to sign an important contract. At the airport Colombo accidentally gets on a plane that flies in a direction directly opposite to Canada - to Bankgok....
I Don't Speak English
Character: Sergio
If Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and son and reaches a school full of terrible kids. Obviously he is the only adult and the worse student. Learning English hasn't been never so hard....
The Apocalypse
Character: Gaio
While Emperor Domitian persecutes the Christians, the aged apostle John has prophetic visions....
Camerieri
Character: Loris Bianchi
Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate one another but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities....
Stuff for the Rich
Character: Attilio Carbone (1° episodio)
3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts....
The Voice of the Moon
Character: Gonnella
Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals....
The Secret of the Old Woods
Character: Col. Procolo
It tells the story of a general who is about to cut down an old forest for the sake of financial gain, but discovers that the forest is inhabited by invisible spirits...
Torno a vivere da solo
Character: Giacomo's father
Giacomo separates from his wife and moves back to his old bachelor apartment, while a series of whirlwind romance turns his family and friends upside down....
Forbidden Dreams
Character: Paolo Coniglio
Paolo Coniglio is a naive and clumsy employee in a comics publishing house, bullied by his manager and his terrible future mother-in-law. To escape his dreary daily routine, he finds himself living vivid daydreams with "Dalia", the beautiful heroine of the books that he's translating. One day, though, while shopping, Paolo meets a charming blonde that looks like Dalia, and finds himself trapped in a shady intrigue....
How Long Is the Adventure
Character: Gianni Zappi
In order to get some money Gianni Zappi tries to organize an insurance fraud by drowning his yacht....
Two of a Kind
Character: Ringhio / Il Geometra
Italian comedy in two episodes starring a house painter who emigrated to Switzerland who pretends to be a millionaire and an employee on holiday in Kenya, the victim of catastrophic misadventures....
The Precarious Bank Teller
Character: Rag. Arturo De Fanti
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover....
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Character: Conte Fernando - Didino
Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life....
Everything Everything Nothing Nothing
Character: Presidente del Consiglio
Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other characters: Rodolfo Favaretto and Frengo Stop...
Il... Belpaese
Character: Guido Belardinelli
After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her....
In the Name of the Father
Character: Eddy
When three drifters come into the possession of stolen gold they are imprisoned then sprung by a friend and tracked by the outlaw Jackson brothers, who originally stole the gold....
The Baron's Mazurka
Character: Checco Coniglio
A fig tree growing in the estates of Baron Anteo Pellacani has been worshipped since the Middle Ages, after a Saint was supposedly martyred there. The Baron, who was crippled in a fig tree-related accident and has since become a raging atheist, vows to tear it down—until he mistakes a beautiful prostitute momentarily lying on the tree for the Saint herself, falling in love with her. Her pimp, his relatives and the clergy try to take advantage of his newfound faith....
Snowball
Character: Billy Bolla
Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship entertainer. If the performer cannot quickly catch Snowball and induce him to produce the papers, he will have no retirement....
You Are Always In My Mind
Character: vigile Filini
Carlo is a successful singer, married to Livia; the two also have a son, Maurizio. Carlo decides to accept a tour in the USA but, shortly before departure, together with his agent Puglisi has a sentimental adventure with two women. Livia, having discovered what had happened, leaves home with Maurizio....
Blessed Are the Rich
Character: Augusto
Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, destined for illegal exportation to Switzerland, after the courier is killed in a fire fight with the border police. The owners of the money, which occupy an important social position, try in every way to recover it, also leveraging the weakness of the policeman. After the petty betrayal of his brother-in-law, the smuggler decides to keep all the money and flee to Switzerland....
A Liar in Paradise
Character: Gino
Two poor friends are trying to run a con on a wealthy family....
GAS
Character: Renato
Six youngsters aged between 20 and 30 years old, stranded within the restricted values of a provincial city, constrained to live in an emotional void, lacking dreams and acknowledged values, brought together by their rage and feeling that they have nothing left to lose. Luca finds happiness with his ex-girlfriend's outgoing brother Riccardo. When a gay-bashing leaves Riccardo dead, Luca lures the perps to an abandoned factory basement, where he pretends to join in on their sadistic torture of a...
Professor Kranz german in Germany
Character: Prof. Otto von Kranz
The story of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping and ransom plot....
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Character: Self
italian documentary...
I Fix America and Return
Character: Giovanni Bonfiglio
An Italian accountant is sent to the USA to find a black player for his company's basketball team. However, he accidentally recruits a Black militant! The two men become friends, but racism causes a tragic conclusion....
La locandiera
Character: marchese di Forlipopoli
The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love....
Portrait Of My Father
Character: Self
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father....
Eat It - Mangiala
Character: Volpi
An industrialist tries to find an advertising gimmick for his canned meat product "Eat it!". In the fields he finds a savage individual who has reduced himself to two functions only: eating huge amounts of food and making love. So he uses this savage man for his advertising purposes by making the public believe that his meat is an aphrodisiac. Some time later the strange being loses his "gifts". The industrialist tries to replace him, but the incredible amounts of meat he eats turns him into a c...
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....
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Character: Professor Schmidt / Presentatore quiz
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel....
Il Terribile Ispettore
Character: Paolo De Angelis
The ambition of a simple porter to become a real doctor, even though he has no diploma or degree, pushes him to enter the environment he likes so much....
Di che segno sei?
Character: Dante Bompazzi
Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles....
Il turno
Character: Don Pepe Alletto
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What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Character: Don Albino Moncalieri
In the beginning of the 20th. century Italian actor Guido Guidi, more enthusiastic than talented, and his ensemble tour Texas. The mysterious and obviously rich Peppino Garibaldi gives them an offer, they can’t deny: For a large amount of dough they should play “Richard III.” in the Mexican town Vera Cruz. But Peppino is not really interested in cultural affairs: He supports “La Revolución” and “General” Carasco, who utilizes the feastful premiere of “Richard III.” to raid Vera Cruz for Comanda...
30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
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Generazione 1000 euro
Character: Gelsomino il professore
In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. ...
La voce di Fantozzi
Character: Sé stesso
The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in the Classics section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival....
Finalmente Natale
Character: Cesare
Christmas is coming and the Mantelli family is ready to spend it together but Alice, mother and wife, is afraid her marriage could end because the spouses are too deep into their routines so she decides they should go on a vacation....
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...
W gli sposi
Character: Psychologist
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Renzo e Lucia
Character: Don Abbondio
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, including the Plague....
Cake in the Sky
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This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake)....
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot
Character: Dr. Jekyll / Mr Hyde
A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll....
Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
Character: Ugo Fantozzi
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood....
Without Family
Character: Agostino Antoniucci
Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother....
The Magic of Fellini
Character: Self
Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies....
Heidi
Character: Großvater
In the new film adaptation of Johanna Spyri's popular children's book, Heidi is sent to live for a short time with her eccentric grandfather, the "Alpöhi", who lives alone above the village and initially wants nothing to do with his granddaughter. Heidi's friend Peter, the baseball-playing son of an engineer from Boston, helps her out and shows her how to write e-mails. A little later, Heidi has to go to her aunt Dete in Berlin. Her grumpy daughter Clara, a lonely city girl, dyes Heidi's hair bl...
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino....
Mostruosamente Villaggio
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
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