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Giancarlo Giannini

Actor

Giancarlo Giannini

  • Born: 1 August 1942, La Spezia, Italy
  • Estimated net worth: $10 million

Giancarlo Giannini is an acclaimed Italian actor known for his versatile performances in both film and television. He gained international recognition for roles in films such as 'Seven Beauties' and 'The Flowers of St. Francis'. With a distinctive voice and…

About Giancarlo Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini is an acclaimed Italian actor known for his versatile performances in both film and television. He gained international recognition for roles in films such as 'Seven Beauties' and 'The Flowers of St. Francis'. With a distinctive voice and strong presence, Giannini has built a reputation as a talented character actor, often engaging in complex and dramatic roles.

Born
1 August 1942, La Spezia, Italy
Known for
Acting
Height
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Spouses
Elda Giannini (1971-2002)
Children
1 child, Adriano Giannini
Parents
Father: Domenico Giannini, Mother: Maria Giannini
Estimated net worth
$10 million

Fun facts about Giancarlo Giannini

  • Giannini was originally a painter before pursuing a career in acting.
  • He provided the Italian voice for the character of Jack Sparrow in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' series.

Famous Giancarlo Giannini quotes

“What is the use of a man who does not know how to love?”
Seven Beauties, 1975
“I am a man who has lost everything.”
The Flowers of St. Francis, 1950
“I am not afraid of dying, I am afraid of not living.”
Il Postino, 1994

Giancarlo Giannini filmography

Cast (200)

YearTitleCharacterRating
2026Tradita MovieNicandro
2025Tonight in Turin MovieFred Buscaglione6.0
2025Baracoa MovieUnknown character
2025Un viaggio per incontrare Mimì MovieUnknown character
2025Judas' Gospel Movienarrator (voice)6.5
2025Albatross MovieVito5.2
2025Mauro Corona - La mia vita finché capita MovieSé stesso9.8
2025Rise of the Raven TVPope Eugene IV.7.6
2024Tonight in Rome MovieOspite7.5
2024Cabrini MoviePope Leo XIII7.7
Show 190 more credits
YearTitleCharacterRating
2023Tonight in Paris Moviecommissario Maigret9.7
2023Senza malizia MovieUnknown character1.0
2023Book Club: The Next Chapter MoviePolice Chief6.3
2022Tonight in Milan MovieAlessandro Manzoni10.0
2022The Great Game TVDino De Gregorio4.9
2022Duetto MovieGino6.0
2022Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist MovieSelf5.5
2022Buon Lavoro MovieUnknown character4.0
2021Stanotte a Napoli MovieCarlo (VII) di Napoli
2021We Are Cinema MovieSelf (archive footage)9.5
2021I fratelli De Filippo MovieEduardo Scarpetta7.2
2021Gianni Schicchi MovieBuoso Donati6.1
2021Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore MovieSé stesso7.0
2021Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta MovieUnknown character
2021Hugo in Argentina MovieNarrator (voice)8.5
2021Leonardo TVVerrocchio7.3
2020Starman MovieSe stesso6.9
2019Sand and Fire MovieTalleyrand5.8
2019Catch-22 TVMarcello7.3
2018Magical Nights MovieLeandro Saponaro6.1
2018Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia MovieSelf8.2
2018Diminuta MovieMarco Aurelio
2018Stanotte a Pompei MoviePlinio Il Giovane8.0
2018The Catcher Was a Spy MovieProfessor Eduardo Amaldi6.2
2018Prigioniero della mia libertà MovieIspettore Spaccini2.0
2018A Family Tale TVGian Pietro Liegi6.0
2017Pipi, Pupu & Rosemary: The Mystery of the Stolen Notes MovieNarratore (voice)6.2
2017Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle MovieCatarella6.5
2017The Neighborhood MovieGianluca Moretti3.2
2017Stanotte a Venezia MovieCarlo Goldoni10.0
2017Nobili bugie MovieFranco5.3
2017Love Pret-a-porte MovieGiorgio's father4.5
2017The Good Italian III - The Magic of Naples MoviePrincipe
2016Stanotte a San Pietro MovieGian Lorenzo Bernini
2016Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story MovieSelf - Narrator (voice)7.2
2016Stanotte a Firenze MovieGiorgio Vasari10.0
2016The Boy from Giudecca MovieGiudice Mangrella5.1
2016On Air: Storia di Un Successo MoviePresidente5.0
2016Astrosamantha MovieUnknown character6.5
2016Caruso presents: The Good Italian II - The Prince goes to Milan MoviePrincipe
2015Behind the White Glasses MovieSelf6.3
2015Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man MovieHimself
2015Caruso presents: The Good Italian I - The Farmhouse of Wonders MoviePrincipe8.0
2015The Day of the Two Holy Popes MovieUnknown character
2014The First Line MoviePetros5.0
201427 aprile Racconto di un evento MovieVoice
2013The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die MovieNikita3.0
2013Eurotrapped MovieDon Ferracane3.4
2013Un angelo all'inferno MoviePietro Bardelli4.3
2012Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone MovieUnknown character
2012Omamamia MovieLorenzo4.4
2012Pipì, Pupù e Rosmarina TVNarratore (voice)
2011First Happiness MovieEttore
2010Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore MovieSelf6.2
2009I Will Return MovieBorghi3.3
2009La bella società MovieDott. Guarrasi4.3
2008Quantum of Solace MovieMathis6.3
2008Il sangue e la rosa TVCardinale Eugenio Rospigliosi7.0
2008Il sangue e la rosa MovieCardinal Rospigliosi6.8
2008Il Maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia TVBenedetto Diveri
2008Io non dimentico TVSalvatore Conticello
2008Io non dimentico MovieSalvatore Conticello3.7
2008Bastardi MovieIl gatto, Carlo Iuvara4.0
2007Milan - Palermo: The Return MovieTuri Leofonte5.8
2007Il generale Dalla Chiesa TVCarlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
2007Il generale Dalla Chiesa MovieCarlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa6.1
2006A Beautiful Vacation MovieSelf6.0
2006Casino Royale MovieMathis7.6
2006Salvatore. Questa è la vita MovieTimpaliscia7.0
2006L'onore e il rispetto TVDon Giuseppe Bastianelli7.4
2006The Maidens' Conspiracy MovieThe Emperor4.1
2005Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker MovieSelf6.7
2005Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' MovieSelf8.0
2005Shadows in the Sun MovieFather Moretti6.2
2005Raul - Right to Kill MovieGiudice Porfirio9.0
2004Le cinque giornate di Milano TVCarlo Cattaneo7.0
200413 at a Table MovieGiulio6.6
2004Man on Fire MovieMiguel Manzano7.5
2003Forever MovieGiovanni7.0
20033 Women MovieDavid8.0
2003My House in Umbria MovieInspector Girotti6.1
2003Five Moons Plaza MovieBranco5.7
2003Incantato MovieCesare Balocchi6.4
2003Francesca and Nunziata MovieGiordano Montorsi7.5
2002Darkness MovieAlbert Rua5.7
2002On the Set of CQ MovieSelf7.0
2002Dracula's Kiss TVDr. Enrico Valenzi6.2
2002Dracula MovieDr. Enrico Valenzi9.5
2002Joshua MovieThe Pope6.5
2002Amnèsia MovieXavier (voice)5.7
2002The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair MovieFlavio Carboni6.3
2002Ti voglio bene Eugenio MovieEugenio8.0
2002Ciao America MovieZi' Felice8.5
2002Il consiglio d'Egitto MovieNarrator (voice)5.7
2001Momo MoviePresidente (voice)7.1
2001Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal MovieSelf7.1
2001CQ MovieEnzo5.9
2001A Long Long Long Night of Love MovieMarcello6.0
2001The Whole Shebang MoviePop Bazinni5.1
2001Hannibal MovieInsp. Renaldo Pazzi6.8
2000Frank Herbert's Dune TVEmperor Shaddam Corrino IV6.8
2000A Night with Sabrina Love MovieLeonardo6.0
2000Viper MovieGuastamacchia4.3
1999The Wasteland MovieMacrì5.4
1999Milonga MovieCommissario6.5
1999Sweet Idleness MovieCount Nencini8.3
1999No Deposit, No Return MovieCesena8.0
1998La stanza dello Scirocco MovieMarchese di Acquafurata8.0
1998The Dinner MovieProfessore6.9
1997Vacation in Hell MovieOrtega7.5
1997Mimic MovieManny6.1
1997Ultimo bersaglio MovieLeo Steiner9.0
1997Heaven Before I Die MovieThief6.0
1996Más allá del jardín MovieBernardo5.0
1996New York Crossing MovieEnzo4.0
1996La lupa MoviePadre Angiolino5.4
1996Fried Crumbed Brains MovieUnknown character7.5
1996La frontiera MovieVon Zirkenitz8.0
1996Elective Affinities MovieNarrator (voice)6.1
1996Palermo - Milan One Way MovieTuri Leofonte6.3
1996Celluloide MovieSergio Amidei6.6
1996The Marshal Rocca TVBenedetto8.1
1995A Walk in the Clouds MovieAlberto Aragón7.4
1995Like Two Crocodiles MoviePietro Fraschini7.8
1994Jacob MovieLaban6.7
1994Black as the Heart MovieValentino Bruio9.0
1993Giovanni Falcone MoviePaolo Borsellino7.2
1993Colpo di coda TVProfesseur9.0
1992Once Upon a Crime MovieInspector Bonnard5.7
1991Life with the Kids TVAdriano Setti
1990The Amusements of Private Life MovieCharles Renard4.0
1990In The Rose Garden MovieTramontano4.7
1990Anthony Quinn: An Original MovieSelf6.8
1990Dark Illness MovieGiuseppe Marchi5.3
1990Life with the Kids MovieAdriano Setti4.4
1989The Sleazy Uncle MovieRiccardo6.0
1989Time to Kill MovieIl Maggiore4.8
1989Brown Bread Sandwiches MovieAlberto5.0
1989Blood Red MovieSebastian Collogero4.9
1989New York Stories MovieClaudio6.2
1989'o Re MovieFrancis II of the Two Sicilies6.6
1988Snack Bar Budapest MovieAvvocato4.9
1987I picari MovieGuzmán de Alfarache5.5
1987Ternosecco MovieDomenico4.4
1986Saving Grace MovieAbalardi6.4
1986Sins TVMarcello D'itri7.4
1985Fever Pitch MovieCharley4.3
1985Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema MovieSelf9.0
1984American Dreamer MovieVictor Marchand6.3
1984Where's Picone? MovieSalvatore Cannavacciuolo6.8
1982My Darling, My Dearest MovieGennarino Laganà7.0
1981Lili Marleen MovieRobert6.5
1979Life Is Beautiful MovieAntonio Murillo6.9
1979Good News MovieL'Innominato6.2
1979Lovers and Liars MovieGuido Massacesi4.3
1978Blood Feud MovieNicola Sanmichele detto 'Nick'6.5
1978A Night Full of Rain MoviePaolo5.3
1976The Innocent MovieTullio Hermil6.9
1975Seven Beauties MoviePasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze7.4
1975Midnight Pleasures MovieGino Benacio5.7
1974Swept Away MovieGennarino Carunchio7.4
1974The Murri Affair MovieTullio Murri6.6
1974The Beast MovieNino Patrovita7.2
1973How Funny Can Sex Be? MovieDomenico ('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')5.8
1973The Sensual Man MoviePaolo Castorini6.1
1973It Was I MovieBiagio Solise6.0
1973Love and Anarchy MovieAntonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'7.7
1972Indian Summer MovieGiorgio Mosca aka 'Spider'7.6
1972Don Camillo and the Contestants Moviefratello di "Veleno"5.5
1972The Seduction of Mimi MovieCarmelo Mardocheo / Mimí7.1
1972Hector the Mighty MovieUlisse, il drittone6.0
1971The Black Belly of the Tarantula MovieInspector Tellini6.2
1971One Way Ticket MovieWeber5.3
1971My Father Monsignor MovieOreste7.3
1971Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? MovieIl neoammogliato5.4
1971A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State MovieWalter Merighi4.4
1970La promessa MovieLeonidik
1970Una macchia rosa MovieGiancarlo9.0
1970A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) MovieNello7.2
1970The Secret of Santa Vittoria MovieFabio6.9
1969The Sisters MovieDario4.4
1969Fraulein Doktor MovieHans Ruppert5.4
1968Anzio MoviePvt. Cellini5.7
1967Arabella MovieSaverio7.5
1967Tonight I'll Throw Me MovieCarlo Timidoni5.3
1967Don't Sting the Mosquito MoviePaolo Randi5.3
1967The Criminals of the Metropolis MovieGerard Lemaire4.2
1966Rita the Mosquito MoviePaolo Randi6.2
1965David Copperfield TVDavid Copperfield9.0
1965Libido MovieChristian6.4

Crew (6)

YearTitleRoleRating
2013The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die MovieDirector · Directing3.0
1992Toys MovieProp Designer · Art5.3
1987Ternosecco MovieDirector · Directing4.4
1982My Darling, My Dearest MovieWriter · Writing7.0
1979Good News MovieProducer · Production6.2
Show 1 more credits
YearTitleRoleRating
1975Seven Beauties MovieProducer · Production7.4

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Questions about Giancarlo Giannini

What are some of Giancarlo Giannini's most famous movies?

Giancarlo Giannini is well-known for his roles in 'Seven Beauties', 'The Flowers of St. Francis', and 'Il Postino'. His performances in these films have received critical acclaim and showcase his range as an actor.

Has Giancarlo Giannini won any awards?

Yes, Giancarlo Giannini has received numerous awards throughout his career, including a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in 'Seven Beauties'.

What was Giancarlo Giannini's first film?

Giancarlo Giannini made his film debut in 'La Celestina P... R...' in 1965, which marked the beginning of his successful acting career.

Is Giancarlo Giannini involved in any other artistic fields?

Besides acting, Giannini has worked as a director and screenwriter. His artistic talents extend beyond performance, showcasing his versatility in the film industry.

How many children does Giancarlo Giannini have?

Giancarlo Giannini has one child, a son named Adriano Giannini, who is also an actor.

What is Giancarlo Giannini's estimated net worth?

Giancarlo Giannini's estimated net worth is around $10 million, reflecting his successful career in film and television.

What genre of films is Giancarlo Giannini known for?

Giancarlo Giannini is primarily known for his work in drama films, often taking on complex and challenging roles that highlight his acting skills.

What is a notable milestone in Giancarlo Giannini's career?

A notable milestone in Giancarlo Giannini's career was his role in 'Seven Beauties', which garnered international attention and established him as a prominent figure in cinema.