Gigi Proietti

Q: Did Gigi Proietti win any awards?

Yes, Gigi Proietti received several awards during his career, including the David di Donatello for Best Actor for his contributions to Italian cinema.

Q: What was Gigi Proietti's first film?

Gigi Proietti's first film was 'Il giorno della civetta' released in 1968, marking the beginning of his illustrious acting career.

Q: What is Gigi Proietti's most successful film?

One of Gigi Proietti's most successful films is 'Fantozzi', which became a cult classic in Italy and spawned several sequels.

Q: What was Gigi Proietti's contribution to theatre?

Gigi Proietti was also a prominent theatre actor and director, known for his performances in classical and contemporary plays, significantly impacting Italian theatre.

Q: What is Gigi Proietti's estimated net worth?

Gigi Proietti's estimated net worth was around $10 million at the time of his passing, reflecting his successful career in entertainment.

Q: What roles did Gigi Proietti play in television?

Gigi Proietti starred in various television series, with notable performances in 'La Piovra' and 'Il Maresciallo Rocca', showcasing his versatility.

Q: How did Gigi Proietti influence Italian cinema?

Gigi Proietti influenced Italian cinema through his diverse roles and contributions, becoming a beloved figure and a symbol of Italian comedy and drama.

Known for

Pinocchio (2022)

IMDb 5.1 / 10

2022 / Action, Adventure / 111mins

A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.

Name

Gigi Proietti

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

2 December 1940, Rome, Italy

Spouses

Sofia Amendola (1968–2010)

Children

2; Carlotta Proietti, Giorgio Proietti

Parents

Giuseppe Proietti, Maria Proietti

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2022	Movie Luigi Proietti detto Gigi Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2022	Movie Viaggio senza ritorno	Unknown character	Not rated
2021	Movie We Are Cinema An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 9.5 / 10
2021	Movie I Am Santa Claus Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to...	Nicola Natalizzi/Babbo Natale	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2020	Movie Fellini of the Spirits 2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Federico Fellini, the most prominent Italian director and one of the symbols...	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2020	TV TV Story Superstar	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2019	Movie Pinocchio Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily...	Mangiafuoco	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie 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...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2018	TV Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.1 / 10
2017	Movie Il premio After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.	Giovanni Passamonte	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2017	TV Warhorses Gigi Proietti's return to television with a show all his own that will see him perform his "warhorses", confront himself...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2017	Movie Gigi Proietti in Edmund Kean A monologue featuring the actor himself rehearsing his part in his dressing room and reflecting on Shakespeare's words. Accompanying us...	Unknown character	Not rated
2016	Movie Uberto degli specchi	Unknown character	Not rated
2016	Movie Playback - Il caso Malien	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	Movie A qualcuno piacerà - Storia e storie di Elio Pandolfi	Sé stesso	Not rated
2014	Movie Ma tu di che segno 6? Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches...	Avvocato Giuliano De Marchis	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2014	TV Una pallottola nel cuore	Bruno Plamieri	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2013	Movie Indovina chi viene a Natale? A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The...	Leonardo Sereni	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2013	Movie Istintobrass One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An...	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2013	TV L'ultimo Papa Re	cardinal Romeo Colombo da Priverno	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	Movie Alberto il grande Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2011	TV The Lord of the Scam The life of Nicola Persico, a retired finance general, is marked by the morning walk, coffee at Totò's bar and...	Federico Sinacori/Nicola Persico	Not rated
2011	Movie Il signore della truffa	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2011	Movie Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and Furious" and "The Da...	Professor Silenzio	TMDB 2.9 / 10
2011	Movie Voi siete qui	Self	Not rated
2011	Movie All at Sea Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to...	Smemorato	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2010	Movie 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, deep...	San Filippo Neri	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2010	TV 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, deep...	San Filippo Neri	Not rated
2010	Movie Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore	Self	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2010	Movie Life Is a Wonderful Thing A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a...	Claudio	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	Movie A Summer In The Caribbean Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the...	Alberto	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2008	Movie A summer at the sea Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and...	Giulio / Narrator	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2008	Movie Il Maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia	Giovanni Rocca	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	TV The Cesaronis Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in...	Se stesso	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2005	Movie Il veterinario Gigi Garulli is a veterinarian who lives with his wife and two children in a beautiful villa. In addition to...	Gigi Garulli	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2005	Movie Serata d'Onore: Gigi Proietti	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2004	Movie Mai storie d'amore in cucina	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2004	Movie The Jokes In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.	il Padreterno/cameriere/portantino ospedaliero/cantante messicano/contadino/avvocato e cliente/direttore d'orchestra	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2002	Movie Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will...	Mandrake/Bruno Fioretti	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2001	TV Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery Alberto Angela leads the dissemination program dedicated to history, art and culture. A historical, archaeological, informative story, with the presence...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2000	Movie Monster Mash When old-school monsters Frank, Drac and Wolf are deemed "fun" by a court of elders, they're ordered to scare a...	Yorik (voice)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2000	Movie Gigi Proietti Show - A me gli occhi 2000	Unknown character	Not rated
1999	TV Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?	Ospite	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1999	Movie Dirty Linen The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with...	Prof. Rodolfo Melchiorri	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1998	Movie Un nero per casa	Lorenzo Paradisi	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1997	TV L'avvocato Porta L'avvocato Porta is an Italian television series.	Antonio Porta	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1996	TV The Marshal Rocca The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the...	Maresciallo Giovanni Rocca	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1994	TV Italian Restaurant	Giulio Broccoli	TMDB 9.3 / 10
1994	Movie D'Artagnan's Daughter It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken...	Giulio Mazarino	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1993	Movie Mille bolle blu The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as...	Narratore	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1990	TV Villa Arzilla Villa Arzilla is an Italian television series.	Il giardiniere	Not rated
1990	TV Club 92 The program, hosted by Gigi Proietti and Giancarlo Magalli, is set in a nightclub and tells the stories of various...	Unknown character	Not rated
1989	Movie I 7 Re di Roma	Tiberino, Enea, Fauno Luperco, Romolo, Numa Pompilio, Tullo Ostilio, padre degli Orazi, Anco Marzio, Tarquinio Prisco, Servio Tullio, Tarquinio il Superbo, Bruto	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1985	Movie Sue Me Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering...	Luigi Marchetti	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1985	TV Sogni e bisogni A TV series composed of eleven episodes and a conclusion, it aired in six one-hour programs starting on October 6,...	Pompeo	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1983	Movie FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?' Based on a supposed screenplay by Fellini that fell out of a window, Arbore tells the southern story of a...	Curtatone	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1983	Movie Gigi Proietti - La canzone del cane Milù	Unknown character	Not rated
1982	TV Attore, amore mio	Conduttore	Not rated
1982	Movie Di padre in figlio	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1980	Movie I Don't Understand You Anymore On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is...	Alberto Spinelli	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1979	Movie Two Pieces of Bread Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, and one of...	Albergatore	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1978	Movie 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 killed. The intriguing...	Ravello	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1978	Movie A Wedding Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the...	Dino Corelli I	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1977	Movie Edipo Re	Unknown character	Not rated
1977	Movie Beach House Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two...	Gigi	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1976	Movie Languidi baci... perfide carezze Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi	Orfeo Scardamazzi	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	Movie Horse Fever Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in...	Bruno "Mandrake" Fioretti	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1976	Movie The Inheritance In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage,...	Pippo Ferramonti	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1976	Movie Chi dice donna, dice donna Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who...	Sonia / Filippo	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1976	Movie House of Pleasure for Women The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their...	Ivanoe (as Luigi Proietti)	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1975	Movie The Sex Machine The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat…...	Prof. Enrico Coppola	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1974	Movie Bambina In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged...	Saverio Mazzacolli	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1974	TV Sabato sera dalle nove alle dieci	Conduttore / protagonista	Not rated
1973	Movie Property Is No Longer a Theft A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher...	Paco	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1973	Movie La Tosca Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of...	Mario Cavaradossi	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1972	Movie Meo Patacca Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of...	Meo Patacca	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1972	Movie Orders are Orders Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to...	Mario Pasini	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1971	Movie Lady Liberty An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for...	Michel Bruni	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1971	Movie Bubu Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the...	Giulio - the Thief	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1971	TV Great Performances The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical...	Ferguson	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1970	Movie Brancaleone at the Crusades After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby...	Pattume; Colombino; la Morte	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1970	Movie Dropout Disillusioned English banker's wife Mary meets troubled Italian immigrant Bruno, with whom she is captivated by and they set off...	Cieco	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1970	TV La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia The Mad Adventures of Don Quixote of La Mancha, a knight-errant of sad countenance, devoted to protecting the weak and...	Don Chisciotte	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1970	Movie La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia	Don Chisciotte della Mancia	Not rated
1970	Movie The Howl A young bride flees the ceremony with a stranger and, together, they set off on an epic journey though increasingly...	Carlo detto 'Coso'	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1969	Movie The Appointment Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1969	Movie A Rather Complicated Girl Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the...	Pietro	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1968	Movie The Libertine A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to...	Sandro Maldini	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1968	Movie Piccoli borghesi	Nil	Not rated
1968	TV Tartarino sulle Alpi Tartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is the second...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1968	TV Il Circolo Pickwick	Jingle	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1967	Movie Catch As Catch Can Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on...	Truccatore	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1967	Movie Soldier's Girl Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married,...	Cesare Bottazzi	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1967	Movie Vietnam guerra senza fronte Documentary directed by Alessandro Perrone.	Voce	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1967	Movie The Misanthrope Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that social habits and...	Acasto	Not rated
1966	Movie Pleasant Nights A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.	Maresciallo (as Luigi Proietti)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1964	Movie Let's Talk About Women Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from...	Omero (uncredited)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1955	Movie Il nostro campione	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2017	TV Warhorses Gigi Proietti's return to television with a show all his own that will see him perform his "warhorses", confront himself...	Creator Creator	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2017	Movie Gigi Proietti in Edmund Kean A monologue featuring the actor himself rehearsing his part in his dressing room and reflecting on Shakespeare's words. Accompanying us...	Director Directing	Not rated
1998	Movie Un nero per casa	Director Directing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1998	Movie Un nero per casa	Writer Writing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1994	TV Italian Restaurant	Idea Writing	TMDB 9.3 / 10
1994	TV Italian Restaurant	Creator Creator	TMDB 9.3 / 10
1990	TV Villa Arzilla Villa Arzilla is an Italian television series.	Director Directing	Not rated
1990	TV Villa Arzilla Villa Arzilla is an Italian television series.	Creator Creator	Not rated
1982	TV Attore, amore mio	Writer Writing	Not rated
1970	Movie The Howl A young bride flees the ceremony with a stranger and, together, they set off on an epic journey though increasingly...	Dialogue Writing	TMDB 4.8 / 10

Luigi Proietti detto Gigi

2022 / TMDB 7.4

Viaggio senza ritorno

2022

We Are Cinema

2021 / TMDB 9.5

I Am Santa Claus

2021 / TMDB 6.4

Fellini of the Spirits

2020 / TMDB 6.6

Pinocchio

2019 / TMDB 6.6

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