Ugo Tognazzi

🎂 Data nașterii: 1922-03-23 (Cremona, Lombardy, Italy)

Ottavio "Ugo" Tognazzi (23 March 1922 – 27 October 1990) was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most important faces of Italian comedy together with Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi. Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a travelling clerk for an insurance company. After his return to his native city in 1936, he worked in a cured meats production plant where he achieved the position of accountant. During World War II, he was inducted into the Army and returned home after the Armistice of 8 September 1943, and joined the Black Brigades for a while. His passion for theater and acting dates from his early years, and also during the conflict he organized shows for his fellow soldiers. In 1945, he moved to Milan, where he was enrolled in the theatrical company led by Wanda Osiris. A few years later, he formed his own successful musical revue company. In 1950, Tognazzi made his cinematic debut in The Cadets of Gascony directed by Mario Mattoli. The following year, he met Raimondo Vianello, with whom he formed a successful comedy duo for the new-born RAI TV (1954–1960). Their shows, sometimes containing satirical material, were among the first to be censored on Italian television. After the successful role in The Fascist (Il Federale) (1961), directed by Luciano Salce, Tognazzi became one of the most renowned characters of the so-called Commedia all'Italiana (Italian comedy style). He worked with all the main directors of Italian cinema, including Mario Monicelli (My Friends), Marco Ferreri (La Grande Bouffe), Carlo Lizzani (La vita agra), Dino Risi, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty), Ettore Scola, Alberto Lattuada, Nanni Loy, Pupi Avati and others. Tognazzi also directed some of his films, including the 1967 film The Seventh Floor. The film was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a well-known actor in Italy, and starred in several important international films, which brought him fame in other parts of the world. Roger Vadim cast Tognazzi as Mark Hand, the Catchman, in Barbarella (1968). He rescues Barbarella (Jane Fonda) from the biting dolls she encounters, and after her rescue, he requests payment by asking her to make love with him (the "old-fashioned" way, not the psycho-cardiopathic way of their future). In 1981, he won the Best Male Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. While he worked primarily in Italian cinema, Tognazzi is perhaps best remembered for his role as Renato Baldi, the gay owner of a St. Tropez nightclub, in the 1978 French comedy La Cage aux Folles which became the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S. Tognazzi had various relationships during his life, being married to actresses Margarete Robsahm and later Franca Bettoia. He had four children from three different women: his sons Ricky Tognazzi (b. 1955) and Gianmarco Tognazzi (b. 1967) are actors; another son, Thomas Robsahm (b. 1964), is a Norwegian film director and producer; his daughter, Maria Sole Tognazzi (b. 1971), is also a film director. ... Source: Article "Ugo Tognazzi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Ugo Tognazzi

Filme în care a jucat

La Califfa

Marea crăpelniță

La Cage aux folles

Amicii mei: Partea I

Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno

La Cage aux folles II

Amicii mei: Partea a III-a

Amicii mei: Partea a II-a

Barbarella

La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo

Ultimo minuto

Unde mergi în vacanță?

La donna scimmia

Camera episcopului

Il pollo ruspante

Pugni, pupe e marinai

Le Bon Roi Dagobert

Romanzo popolare

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

I mostri

I nuovi mostri

Il petomane

L'anatra all'arancia

Il federale

Una storia moderna - L'ape regina

Porcile

Vogliamo i colonnelli

Il maestro e Margherita

L'udienza

Droit de Réponse

Ultima romanță de dragoste

La vita agra

Totò nella Luna

Controsesso

Touche pas à la femme blanche

Domenica è sempre domenica

L'ingorgo

Venga a prendere il caffè da noi

Cattivi pensieri

Casotto

La cambiale

La marcia su Roma

I complessi

La Cage aux folles 3 - « Elles » se marient

La terrazza

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

I nostri mariti

Confidentul doamnelor

5 marines per 100 ragazze

Il commissario Pepe

La voglia matta di vivere

Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale

Marcia nuziale

Che gioia vivere

I Mostri [Episodi Inediti]

Telefoni bianchi

La voglia matta

La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone

Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!

Les Séducteurs

Il mantenuto

Il magnifico cornuto

I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo

Noi siamo 2 evasi

Le Olimpiadi dei mariti

Risate all'italiana

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

La sceriffa

L'immorale

Le piacevoli notti

Arrivederci e grazie

La bambolona

La mazzetta

Tată de familie

Marinai, donne e guai

L'Incantevole nemica

La supertestimone

Sissignore