Giancarlo Giannini
Acting
Biography
Giancarlo Giannini (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒanˈniːni]; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties (1975). He is also a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor. Giannini began his career on stage, starring in Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. After appearing predominantly on television throughout the early 1960s, he had his first lead role in a film in Rita the Mosquito (1965), the first of many collaborations with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller. He rose to international stardom through Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973), Swept Away (1974), culminating in his Oscar-nominated turn in Seven Beauties (1975). His other films include The Innocent (1976), Lili Marleen (1980), New York Stories (1990), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Man on Fire (2004), and the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He is also a dubbing artist, contributing voice work to the Italian-language versions of dozens of films since the 1960s. He has been the main Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975, and has also dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Giannini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 1, 1942
Place of Birth: La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Known For
Stanotte a Venezia
Ciao America
Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland in Italy -- as was requested by his late grandfather. Upon arriving, Lorenzo is offered a short-term position as coach for an American-style football team by the team's manager, Giulio Fellini (Maurizio Nichetti). As the young American immerses himself in his new duties, he makes the acquaintance of Paola Angelini (Violante Placido) and the two begin a friendship that quickly blossoms into something more. In between spending time with Paola and working with the team, Lorenzo also begins investigating his own family's history and learns the reason for his grandfather's departure from Italy, as well as why his grandfather never returned to visit. As Lorenzo begins to forge an identity for himself in Italy -- not to mention strong romantic attachments to Paola -- he must eventually decide whether or not to return to the States.
Hugo in Argentina
A promising Italian cartoonist lands in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States, to discover that, for him, America will be Argentina. The country immediately overwhelms him with its massive economic boom and a cultural scene among the most vibrant in the world. We are at the dawn of Argentina's most delirious decade, and the young immigrant feels that the vast promise of this country is within his grasp. His name will indeed make itself known: Hugo Pratt.
Mauro Corona - La mia vita finché capita
We Are Cinema
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Stanotte a...
« For over twenty years we have filmed at night in the most important museums in the world. It's the only possible time to film the empty halls or the precious artifacts out of the windows because there are no visitors. But at night the Museum changes face. Just you in front of the masterpieces in the silence. The Museum seems to show and offer you its treasures in an atmosphere of intimacy. I always wanted to transmit and give this atmosphere that I breathed to viewers. » (Alberto Angela)
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
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 screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.
La stanza dello Scirocco
The marshal 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 pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).
Cabrini
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Filmography
as Vito
as Sé stesso
as Pope Eugene IV.
as Pope Leo XIII
as Police Chief
as Dino De Gregorio
as Gino
as Self (archive footage)
as Eduardo Scarpetta
as Buoso Donati
as Sé stesso
as Narrator (voice)
as Verrocchio
as Se stesso
as Talleyrand
as Marcello
as Leandro Saponaro
as Marco Aurelio
as Professor Eduardo Amaldi
as Ispettore Spaccini
as Gian Pietro Liegi
as Narratore (voice)
as Catarella
as Gianluca Moretti
as Carlo Goldoni
as Franco
as Giorgio's father
as Principe
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Giudice Mangrella
as Presidente
as Self
as Himself
as Se stesso
as Petros
as Voice
as Nikita
as Don Ferracane
as Pietro Bardelli
as Lorenzo
as Narratore (voice)
as Ettore
as Borghi
as Dott. Guarrasi
as Mathis
as Cardinale Eugenio Rospigliosi
as Cardinal Rospigliosi
as Benedetto Diveri
as Salvatore Conticello
as Il gatto
as Turi Leofonte
as Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
as Self
as Mathis
as Timpaliscia
as Don Giuseppe Bastianelli
as The Emperor
as Father Moretti
as Giudice Porfirio
as Carlo Cattaneo
as Giulio
as Miguel Manzano
as Giovanni
as David
as Inspector Girotti
as Branco
as Cesare Balocchi
as Giordano Montorsi
as Albert Rua
as Dr. Enrico Valenzi
as The Pope
as Xavier (voice)
as Flavio Carboni
as Eugenio
as Zi' Felice
as Narrator (voice)
as Presidente (voice)
as Enzo
as Marcello
as Pop Bazinni
as Insp. Renaldo Pazzi
as Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV
as Leonardo
as Guastamacchia
as Macrì
as Commissario
as Count Nencini
as Cesena
as Marchese di Acquafurata
as Professore
as Ortega
as Manny
as Leo Steiner
as Thief
as Bernardo
as Enzo
as Padre Angiolino
as Von Zirkenitz
as Narrator (voice)
as Turi Leofonte
as Sergio Amidei
as Benedetto
as Alberto Aragón
as Pietro Fraschini
as Laban
as Valentino Bruio
as Paolo Borsellino
as Professeur
as Inspector Bonnard
as Adriano Setti
as Charles Renard
as Tramontano
as Self
as Giuseppe Marchi
as Adriano Setti
as Riccardo
as Il Maggiore
as Alberto
as Sebastian Collogero
as Claudio
as Francis II of the Two Sicilies
as Avvocato
as Guzmán de Alfarache
as Domenico
as Abalardi
as Marcello D'itri
as Charley
as Victor Marchand
as Salvatore Cannavacciuolo
as Gennarino Laganà
as Robert
as Antonio Murillo
as L'Innominato
as Guido Massacesi
as Nicola Sanmichele detto 'Nick'
as Paolo
as Tullio Hermil
as Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze
as Gino Benacio
as Gennarino Carunchio
as Tullio Murri
as Nino Patrovita
as Domenico ('Signora sono le 8') / Cesaretto ('Due cuori e una baracca') / Enrico ('Non è mai troppo tardi') / Lello ('Viaggio di nozze') / Giansiro ('Torna piccina mia') / The Donor ('Lavoratore italiano all'estero') / Michele Maccò ('La vendetta') / Saturnino ('Un amore difficile') / Dottor Bianchi ('L'ospite')
as Paolo Castorini
as Biagio Solise
as Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'
as Giorgio Mosca aka 'Spider'
as fratello di "Veleno"
as Carmelo Mardocheo / Mimí
as Ulisse, il drittone
as Inspector Tellini
as Weber
as Oreste
as Il neoammogliato
as Leonidik
as Giancarlo
as Fabio
as Dario
as Hans Ruppert
as Pvt. Cellini
as Saverio
as Carlo Timidoni
as Paolo Randi
as Gerard Lemaire
as Paolo Randi
as David Copperfield
as Christian