Gigi Ballista
Birthday: 1918-12-01
Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Biography: Gigi Ballista (1 December 1918 – 2 August 1980) was an Italian film and television actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1961 and 1980. Born in Florence, Ballista graduated in Law, then he started working as a PR consultant in the field of advertising and industrial documentaries. He debuted as an actor at a mature age in the early 1960s with some minor roles, but his breakout came in 1966 with a role of weight in Pietro Germi's The Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Following the critical and commercial success of the film, Ballista decided to pursue a professional career as an actor, and he became, mainly thanks to his characteristic hoarse and dysphonic voice, one of the most recognizable character actors in Italian cinema and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gigi Ballista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Lady Caliph
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her confli...
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Galileo
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the un...
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Stavisky...
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe ...
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Emma Hamilton
In the second half of the 18th century, the young shepherdess Emma accidentally catches the eye of t...
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Una storia d'amore
A married woman falls in love with a playboy dedicated to blackmail, to avoid that reveal his unedif...
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Giovannona Long-Thigh
When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner b...
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Confessions of a Lady Cop
Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy w...
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No One Will Notice You're Naked
Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm se...
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The Climax
A violin player is going to be father of a sixth child by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous...
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Fischia Il Sesso
A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduce...
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Blessed Are the Rich
Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, d...
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The Lady Has Been Raped
Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house i...
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Under the Sheets
Three medical students who are reluctant to hit the books and unwilling to work are much more enthus...
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Il morbidone
Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse....
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La madama
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word wer...
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Mala, Love and Death
The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime....
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Liquirizia
Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide t...
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The Noon Vigilante
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bo...
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Sunstroke
One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to sp...
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Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
The adventures of the Etruscan Cassiodorus who, after having involuntarily captured a rebel, is name...
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The Family Vice
When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure ...
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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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How I Learned to Love Women
An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women....
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The Sunday Woman
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. T...
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father ...
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L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately ...
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Snow Job
A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crev...
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The Schoolmate
Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italia...
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Black Turin
Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his inno...
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Do Not Commit Adultery
Pino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and his ...
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Poker in Bed
A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appe...
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1001 Nights of Pleasure
Sultan Almamud suddenly becomes powerless, unable to enjoy his beautiful Zumurud. The councillors th...
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I Hate Blondes
There are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow who ...
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Policewoman
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police...
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Salon Kitty
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been...
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army....
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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends t...
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Italian Sex
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reve...
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The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the ...
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Blume in Love
Lawyer Stephen Blume, who specializes in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his ow...
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Midnight Express
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...
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Un amore targato Forlì
The young Rimini native Stefano Santi goes to Rome, with a letter of recommendation for the maestro ...
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Trastevere
A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Ro...
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Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become...
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The Maniacs
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of It...
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Anima mia
Insatiable playboy Marco Donati decides to marry his latest flame, the beautiful Francesca. When the...
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The Queens
Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a...
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, ...
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The Seventh Floor
In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged ...
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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a gen...
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