Paolo Villaggio
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: December 31, 1932
Place of Birth: Genova, Liguria, Italy
Known For
We Are Cinema
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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.
Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Sanremo Music Festival
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.
La voce di Fantozzi
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.
The Second Tragic Fantozzi
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
Giandomenico Fracchia - Sogni proibiti di uno di noi
Without Family
Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother.
Portrait Of My Father
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.
The Secret of the Old Woods
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.
Filmography
as Self (Archive Footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Psychologist
as Sé stesso
as Presidente del Consiglio
as Self
as Gelsomino il professore
as Renato
as Giacomo's father
as Cesare
as Renato
as Gaio
as Don Abbondio
as Padre Paolo Benelli
as Giovanni Benelli
as Self
as Großvater
as Dr. Cagnano
as Giuseppe De Metrio
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
as Gino
as Sergio Colombo
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
as Billy Bolla
as Sergio
as Loris Bianchi
as Paolo
as Dieci
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
as Col. Procolo
as Marco Sperelli
as Paolo
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
as Paolo
as Gonnella
as Paolo Ciottoli
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
as Ugo Maria Volpone
as Gianni Zappi
as Attilio Carbone (1° episodio)
as Dalmazio Siraghi
as Paolo Casalotti
as Ermenegildo Morelli
as Ugo Fantozzi
as Dalmazio Siraghi
as Detenuto Turati / Robot
as Giandomenico Fracchia
as Paolo Casalotti
as Orazio
as Gino Sciaccaluga
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
as Ringhio / Il Geometra
as Leo Gavazzi
as Paolo Coniglio
as Giandomenico Fracchia / La Belva Umana
as Don Pepe Alletto
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
as marchese di Forlipopoli
as Rag. Arturo De Fanti
as Dr. Jekyll / Mr Hyde
as Arturo (episodio "Si Buana")
as Della Spigola (2° episodio)
as Berretta
as Prof. Otto von Kranz
as Guido Belardinelli
as Avvocato Scorza
as Robi
as Giobatta (episodio "Italian Superman")
as Professor Schmidt / Presentatore quiz
as Self
as Ugo Fantozzi
as Dante Bompazzi
as Ugo Fantozzi
as Checco Coniglio
as Giandomenico Fracchia
as Giovanni Bonfiglio
as Conte Fernando - Didino
as The CIA agent
as Don Albino Moncalieri
as Augusto
as Agostino Antoniucci
as Thorz
as vigile Filini
as Paolo De Angelis
as Eddy
as Volpi
as Self - Host