Ugo Tognazzi
- Birth Date:
- 23.03.1922
- Death date:
- 27.10.1990
- Extra names:
- Уго Тоньяцци, Ugo Tonjaci, Ugo Tognazzi
- Categories:
- Actor, Film director
- Nationality:
- italian
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Ugo Tognazzi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈuɡo toɲˈɲattsi]; 23 March 1922 - 27 October 1990) was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.
Early life
Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.
After his return to his native city in 1936, he worked in a salami production plant. During World War II, he was inducted into the Army and returned home after theArmistice of September 1943. His passion for theater and acting dates from his early years, and also during the conflict he organized shows for his fellow soldiers. In 1945, he moved to Milan, where he was enrolled in the theatrical company led byWanda Osiris. A few years later, he formed his own successful musical revue company.
Career
In 1950, Tognazzi made his cinematic debut in I cadetti di Guascogna directed byMario Mattoli. The following year, he met Raimondo Vianello, with whom he formed a successful comedy duo for the new-born RAI TV (1954–1960). Their shows, sometimes containing satirical material, were among the first to be censored on Italian television.
After the successful role in The Fascist (Il Federale) (1961), directed by Luciano Salce, Tognazzi became one of the most renowned characters of the so-called Commedia all'Italiana (Italian comedy style). He worked with all the main directors of Italian cinema, including Mario Monicelli (Amici miei), Marco Ferreri (La grande abbuffata), Carlo Lizzani (La vita agra), Dino Risi, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty), Ettore Scola, Alberto Lattuada, Nanni Loy, Pupi Avati and others. Tognazzi also directed some of his films, including the 1967 film Il fischio al naso. The film was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]
He was a well-known actor in Italy, and starred in several important international films, which brought him fame in other parts of the world.
Roger Vadim cast Tognazzi as Mark Hand, the Catchman, in Barbarella (1968). He rescues Barbarella (Jane Fonda) from the biting dolls she encounters, and after her rescue, he requests payment by asking her to make love with him (the "old-fashioned" way, not the psycho-cardiopathic way of their future).
In 1981, he won the Best Male Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. While he worked primarily in Italian cinema, Tognazzi is perhaps best remembered for his role as Renato Baldi, the gay owner of a St. Tropez nightclub, in the 1978 French comedy La Cage aux Folles which became the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S.
Personal life
Ugo Tognazzi died of a brain hemorrhage in Rome in 1990, although rumors persist to this day that his chronic depression led to suicide. He is buried in the cemetery of Velletri.
His sons Ricky Tognazzi (b. 1955) and Gianmarco Tognazzi (b. 1967) are cinema actors. He was also the father of theNorwegian film director and film producer Thomas Robsahm (b. 1964). His daughter Maria Sole Tognazzi (b. 1971) is, like Ricky, a film director.
Filmography
Actor
- I cadetti di Guascogna (1950)
- Auguri e figli maschi (1951)
- Una bruna indiavolata (1951)
- La paura fa 90 (1951)
- L'incantevole nemica (1953)
- L'amore in città (1953)
- Totò nella luna (1958)
- Domenica è sempre domenica (1958)
- Mia nonna poliziotto (1958)
- Marinai, donne e guai (1958)
- Psicanalista per signora (1959)
- Le cameriere (1959)
- Tipi da spiaggia (1959)
- La cambiale (1959)
- I baccanali di Tiberio (1959)
- Assi alla ribalta (1959)
- Guardatele ma non toccatele (1959)
- Policarpo, "ufficiale di scrittura" (1959)
- La pica sul Pacifico (1959)
- Non perdiamo la testa (1959)
- Noi siamo due evasi (1959)
- Fantasmi e ladri (1959)
- Femmine di lusso (1960)
- A noi piace freddo (1960)
- Un dollaro di fifa (1960)
- Genitori in blue jeans (1960)
- Le olimpiadi dei mariti (1960)
- Il mio amico Jekyll (1960)
- The Fascist (1961)
- Che gioia vivere! (1961)
- Il mantenuto (1961)
- I magnifici tre (1961)
- Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
- Cinque marines per cento ragazze (1961)
- Pugni pupe e marinai (1961)
- I tromboni di fra' Diavolo (1962)
- Una domenica d'estate (1962)
- Il giorno più corto (1962)
- La voglia matta (1962)
- I motorizzati (1962)
- March on Rome (1962)
- Liolà (1963)
- RoGoPaG (1963)
- I mostri (1963)
- I fuorilegge del matrimonio (1963)
- Le ore dell'amore (1963)
- Le motorizzate (1963)
- The Conjugal Bed (1963)
- La vita agra (1964)
- Alta infedeltà (1964)
- Controsesso (1964)
- La Donna scimmia (1964)
- Il magnifico cornuto (1964)
- Io la conoscevo bene (1965)
- Menage all'italiana (1965)
- I Complessi (1965)
- Una moglie americana (1965)
- Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965)
- Le piacevoli notti (1966)
- L'immorale (1966)
- A Question of Honour (1966)
- Follie d'estate (1966)
- I nostri mariti (1966)
- Marcia nuziale (1966)
- Il fischio al naso (1967)
- Il padre di famiglia (1967)
- Barbarella (1967)
- Straziami, ma di baci saziami (1968)
- Sissignore (1968)
- Satyricon (1969)
- Il Commissario Pepe (1969)
- Nell'anno del Signore... (1969)
- Porcile (1969)
- La bambolona (1969)
- Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (1970)
- Cuori solitari (1970)
- La califfa (1970)
- Venga a prendere il caffè... da noi (1970)
- In nome del popolo italiano (1971)
- La supertestimone (1971)
- Stanza 17-17, palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971)
- L'udienza (1971)
- Questa specie d'amore (1972)
- Il generale dorme in piedi (1972)
- Il maestro e Margherita (1972)
- Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
- La proprietà non è più un furto (1973)
- La grande abbuffata (1973)
- La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone (1974)
- Romanzo popolare (1974)
- Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? (1974)
- Non toccare la donna bianca (1974)
- Touche pas à la femme blanche (Don't Touch The White Woman!) (1974)
- L'anatra all'arancia (1975)
- La smagliatura (1975)
- Amici miei (1975)
- Cattivi pensieri (1976)
- Telefoni bianchi (film) (1976)
- Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)
- Al piacere di rivederla (1976)
- La stanza del vescovo (film) (1977)
- I nuovi mostri (1977)
- Il gatto (1977)
- Casotto (1977)
- Nenè (1977)
- Dove vai in vacanza? (1978)
- La mazzetta (1978)
- La Cage aux Folles (1978)
- Primo amore (1978)
- L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile (1979)
- I viaggiatori della sera (1979)
- Break-up (film) (1979)
- La Cage aux Folles(1980)
- La terrazza (1980)
- Sono fotogenico (1980)
- Sunday Lovers (1980)
- Arrivano i bersaglieri (1980)
- La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (1981)
- Amici miei atto II (1982)
- Scusa se è poco (1982)
- Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada (1983)
- Il petòmane (1983)
- The Key (1983)
- Fatto su misura (1984)
- Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (1984)
- Dagobert (film) (1984)
- Amici miei atto III (1985)
- La Cage aux folles 3 - 'Elles' se marient (1985)
- Ultimo minuto (1987)
- I giorni del commissario Ambrosio (1988)
- Tolérance (1989)
Director
- Il mantenuto (1961)
- Il fischio al naso (1967)
- Sissignore (1968)
- Cattivi pensieri (1976)
- I viaggiatori della sera (1979)
Source: wikipedia.org
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1 | Franca Bettoia | Wife | ||
2 | Anna Campori | Coworker | ||
3 | Moira Orfei | Coworker | ||
4 | Paola Borboni | Coworker | ||
5 | Dino Risi | Coworker | ||
6 | André S. Labarthe | Coworker | ||
7 | Fanfulla | Coworker | ||
8 | Valentina Cortese | Coworker | ||
9 | Édouard Molinaro | Coworker | ||
10 | Katia Tchenko | Coworker | ||
11 | Alberto Grimaldi | Coworker | ||
12 | Gabriella Giacobbe | Coworker | ||
13 | Laura Betti | Coworker | ||
14 | Jacques Demy | Coworker | ||
15 | Vittorio Congia | Coworker | ||
16 | Carlo Giuffrè | Coworker | ||
17 | Giuliana Calandra | Coworker | ||
18 | Marco Ferreri | Coworker | ||
19 | Anna Maria Ferrero | Coworker, Familiar | ||
20 | Karina Verlier | Coworker | ||
21 | Tina Aumont | Coworker | ||
22 | Robert Hossein | Familiar | ||
23 | Paolo Ferrari | Familiar | ||
24 | Jocelyn Brando | Familiar | ||
25 | Luigi De Filippo | Familiar | ||
26 | Isabella Biagini | Familiar |