Gigi Proietti

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Rome, Lazio, Italy, 1940-11-02

Died: 2020-11-02

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Let's Talk About Women	Omero (uncredited)	62
2	1966	Pleasant Nights	Maresciallo (as Luigi Proietti)	63
3	1967	The Misanthrope	Acasto	0
4	1967	Vietnam guerra senza fronte	Voce	0
5	1967	Soldier's Girl	Cesare Bottazzi	0
6	1967	Catch As Catch Can	Truccatore	58
7	1968	Piccoli borghesi	Nil	0
8	1968	The Libertine	Sandro Maldini	54
9	1969	A Rather Complicated Girl	Pietro	53
10	1969	The Appointment		55
11	1970	The Howl	Carlo detto 'Coso'	47
12	1970	La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia	Don Chisciotte della Mancia	0
13	1970	Dropout	Cieco	48
14	1970	Brancaleone at the Crusades	Pattume; Colombino; la Morte	72
15	1971	Bubu	Giulio - the Thief	52
16	1971	Lady Liberty	Michel Bruni	55
17	1972	Orders are Orders	Mario Pasini	60
18	1972	Meo Patacca	Meo Patacca	59
19	1973	La Tosca	Mario Cavaradossi	71
20	1973	Property Is No Longer a Theft	Paco	72
21	1974	Bambina	Saverio Mazzacolli	50
22	1975	The Sex Machine	Prof. Enrico Coppola	49
23	1976	House of Pleasure for Women	Ivanoe (as Luigi Proietti)	55
24	1976	Chi dice donna, dice donna	Sonia / Filippo	57
25	1976	The Inheritance	Pippo Ferramonti	64
26	1976	Horse Fever	Bruno "Mandrake" Fioretti	73
27	1976	Languidi baci... perfide carezze	Orfeo Scardamazzi	0
28	1977	Beach House	Gigi	65
29	1977	Edipo Re		0
30	1978	A Wedding	Dino Corelli I	63
31	1978	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?	Ravello	60
32	1979	Two Pieces of Bread	Albergatore	40
33	1980	I Don't Understand You Anymore	Alberto Spinelli	63
34	1982	Di padre in figlio	Self	40
35	1983	Gigi Proietti - La canzone del cane Milù		0
36	1983	FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'	Curtatone	65
37	1985	Sue Me	Luigi Marchetti	44
38	1989	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	82
39	1993	Mille bolle blu	Narratore	64
40	1994	D'Artagnan's Daughter	Giulio Mazarino	57
41	1998	Un nero per casa	Lorenzo Paradisi	0
42	1999	Dirty Linen	Prof. Rodolfo Melchiorri	52
43	2000	Gigi Proietti Show - A me gli occhi 2000		0
44	2002	Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting	Mandrake/Bruno Fioretti	57
45	2004	The Jokes	il Padreterno/cameriere/portantino ospedaliero/cantante messicano/contadino/avvocato e cliente/direttore d'orchestra	45
46	2004	Mai storie d'amore in cucina		80
47	2005	Serata d'Onore: Gigi Proietti		100
48	2005	Il veterinario	Gigi Garulli	51
49	2008	A summer at the sea	Giulio / Narrator	46
50	2009	A Summer In The Caribbean	Alberto	47
51	2010	Life Is a Wonderful Thing	Claudio	55
52	2010	Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore	Self	62
53	2010	Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven	San Filippo Neri	73
54	2011	All at Sea	Smemorato	50
55	2011	Voi siete qui	Self	0
56	2011	Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films	Professor Silenzio	29
57	2011	Il signore della truffa		65
58	2013	Alberto il grande	Self	75
59	2013	Istintobrass	Self	49
60	2013	Indovina chi viene a Natale?	Leonardo Sereni	56
61	2014	Ma tu di che segno 6?	Avvocato Giuliano De Marchis	47
62	2015	A qualcuno piacerà - Storia e storie di Elio Pandolfi	Sé stesso	0
63	2016	Playback - Il caso Malien		60
64	2016	Uberto degli specchi		0
65	2017	Il premio	Giovanni Passamonte	60
66	2018	Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia	Self	90
67	2019	Pinocchio	Mangiafuoco	66
68	2020	Fellini of the Spirits	Self	66
69	2021	I Am Santa Claus	Nicola Natalizzi/Babbo Natale	65
70	2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)	95
71	2022	Speciale Ulisse: Viaggio senza ritorno		0
72	2022	Luigi Proietti detto Gigi	Self	76

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Il Circolo Pickwick	Jingle	0
2	1968	Tartarino sulle Alpi		100
3	1971	Great Performances	Ferguson	53
4	1985	Sogni e bisogni	Pompeo	0
5	1990	Club 92		0
6	1990	Villa Arzilla	Il giardiniere	0
7	1994	Italian Restaurant	Giulio Broccoli	95
8	1996	Il maresciallo Rocca	Maresciallo Giovanni Rocca	82
9	1997	L'avvocato Porta	Antonio Porta	0
10	1999	Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?	Ospite	62
11	2001	Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta	Self	89
12	2006	I Cesaroni	Se stesso	71
13	2010	Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven	San Filippo Neri	0
14	2011	The Lord of the Scam	Federico Sinacori/Nicola Persico	0
15	2013	L'ultimo Papa Re	cardinal Romeo Colombo da Priverno	70
16	2014	Una pallottola nel cuore	Bruno Plamieri	67
17	2017	Cavalli di battaglia	Self	74
18	2018	Meraviglie - La penisola dei tesori		95
19	2020	TV Story Superstar	Self (archive footage)	0

Gigi Proietti

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