Gigi Proietti
Birthday: 1940-11-02
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography: Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (2 November 1940 – 2 November 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, musician, singer and television presenter. After several stage works, in 1966 Proietti debuted both in cinema, in Pleasant Nights, and on television, in the TV series I grandi camaleonti. His first personal success came in 1971, when he replaced Domenico Modugno in the stage musical Alleluja brava gente by Garinei & Giovannini, starring alongside Renato Rascel. In 1974, after playing the role of Neri Chiaramantesi in the drama La cena delle beffe, alongside Carmelo Bene and Vittorio Gassman, in 1976 started a fruitful collaboration with playwright Roberto Lerici, with whom he wrote and directed his stage plays, starting with the one-man show A me gli occhi, please (Give me your eyes, please, 1976, reported on the scene in 1993, 1996 and 2000, in a memorable performance at the Olympic Stadium in his hometown). Initially planned to be performed 6 times, the show exceeded 300 performances, with an average audience of 2,000 per performance. He took part in several international movies, including The Appointment (1969), directed by Sidney Lumet, A Wedding (1978), directed by Robert Altman, and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), directed by Ted Kotcheff. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gigi Proietti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on ...
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The Howl
A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic jour...
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being kille...
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Life Is a Wonderful Thing
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses a...
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The Jokes
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society...
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FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
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Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
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The Appointment
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All at Sea
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Bambina
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, S...
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The Libertine
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she deci...
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A summer at the sea
Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about lif...
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Beach House
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketba...
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Sue Me
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordi...
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Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven
One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, ...
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Bubu
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The Misanthrope
Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that socia...
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Mille bolle blu
The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as s...
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Catch As Catch Can
Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is...
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Lady Liberty
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she...
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become ...
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La Tosca
Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Ange...
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House of Pleasure for Women
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I Don't Understand You Anymore
On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the ma...
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Orders are Orders
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that...
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Dirty Linen
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business ...
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Ma tu di che segno 6?
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors...
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A Wedding
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of t...
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Horse Fever
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse ra...
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Meo Patacca
Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverin...
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The Sex Machine
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the worl...
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Il veterinario
Gigi Garulli is a veterinarian who lives with his wife and two children in a beautiful villa. In add...
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Soldier's Girl
Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would lik...
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A Summer In The Caribbean
Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean isl...
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Indovina chi viene a Natale?
A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonar...
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Il premio
After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and a...
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The Inheritance
In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her br...
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Two Pieces of Bread
Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, ...
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Brancaleone at the Crusades
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return th...
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Let's Talk About Women
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian ...
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Languidi baci... perfide carezze
Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi...
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Alberto il grande
Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary f...
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Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films
An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and F...
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D'Artagnan's Daughter
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's...
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Pinocchio
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden p...
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Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian...
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I Am Santa Claus
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go...
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Property Is No Longer a Theft
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best cust...
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A Rather Complicated Girl
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get i...
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Fellini of the Spirits
2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Federico Fellini, the most prominent Italian director and on...
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Istintobrass
One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored direc...
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Gigi Proietti in Edmund Kean
A monologue featuring the actor himself rehearsing his part in his dressing room and reflecting on S...
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Monster Mash
When old-school monsters Frank, Drac and Wolf are deemed "fun" by a court of elders, they're ordered...
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