Cast
Ugo Tognazzi
Acting
Cast
Ugo Tognazzi
Known for
Acting
Born
1922-03-23
From
Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
Died
1990-10-27
Also known as Ottavio Tognazzi
Biography
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.
The Key
as drunk
The Ape Woman
as Antonio Semola
Barbarella
as Mark Hand
My Friends Act III
as Conte Mascetti
The Degenerates
as Trimalchione
Pigsty
as Herdhitze
Beach House
as Alfredo Cerquetti
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
as Generale / Menelao Guardiaferri
My Friends
as Raffaello Mascetti
I'm Photogenic
as Ugo Tognazzi (uncredited)
La Grande Bouffe
as Ugo
Traffic Jam
as Professor
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
as Ernesto
Controsesso
as The professor (segment "Il professore")
Lonely Hearts
as Stefano
The Terrace
as Amedeo
Come Home and Meet My Wife
as Giulio Blasetti
The Harem
as Self (uncredited)
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
as Togni (segment "Il pollo ruspante")
La Cage aux Folles
as Renato Baldi
The Magnificent Cuckold
as Andrea Artusi
Morceaux de Cannes
Weak Spot
as Georgis
Unfaithfully Yours
as Carlo Reani
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
The Monsters
as The Father (segment "L'Educazione sentimentale") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Stefano (segment "Come un Padre") / Battacchi (segment "Il povero Soldato") / L'Onorevole (segment "La Giornata dell'Onorevole") / Dark Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Pilade Fioravanti (segment "Testimone volontario") / The Traffic Warden (segment "L'Agguato") / The Car Buyer (segment "Vernissage") / Spectator at the Cinema (segment "Scenda l'Oblio") / The Husband (segment "L'Oppio dei Popoli") / Guarnacci (segment "La nobile Arte")
Crazy Desire
as Ing. Antonio Berlinghieri
In the Name of the Italian People
as Mariano Bonifazi
Lady Caliph
as Annibale Doberdò
I Knew Her Well
as Gigi Baggini
La cambiale
as Alfredo Balzarini
The New Monsters
as il marito/il cuoco/il figlio
First Love
as Ugo
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
as Bertoldo
The Career of a Chambermaid
as Adelmo
My Friends Act II
as Il Conte Mascetti - Raffaello "Lello" Mascetti
Love, the Italian Way
as Ugo Lemeni
Good King Dagobert
as La pape Honorius et son sosie
Singing Café
as Se stesso
The Bishop's Bedroom
as Orimbelli
Formula 1 - Speed fever
as Self
Pleasant Nights
as Uguccione de' Tornaquinci
The Shortest Day
as Pecoraio
Nenè
as Barber "Baffo" (uncredited)
La Cage aux Folles II
as Renato Baldi
The Joy of Living
as Anarchist
We Want the Colonels
as On. Giuseppe Tritoni
Drums of Fire
as Carlo di Palma
Evil Thoughts
as Mario Marani
I motorizzati
as Achille Pestani
L'Incantevole nemica
as Colombo, l'adjoint du directeur de la fromagerie
A Very Handy Man
as Liolà
The Last Minute
as Walter Ferroni
The Cat
as Amedeo Pecoraro
The Head of the Family
as Remo
SuperTotò
Sunday Lovers
as Armando (sketch 'Le carnet d'Armando')
The Fascist
as Federale Primo Arcovazzi
Kiss the Other Sheik
as Man With Car (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") (uncredited)
High Infidelity
as Cesare
Laughs Italian Style
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
as Enrico (episodio "Sarò tutta per te")
La Cage aux Folles 3
as Renato Baldi
The Wedding March
as Avvocato / Michele / Frank / Igor Savoia
Duck in Orange Sauce
as Livio
Complexes
as Prof. Gildo Beozi
The Sheriff
as Colorado Joe
Tipi da spiaggia
as Pasubio Giovinezza
Dismissed on His Wedding Night
as Oscar Pettini
His Women
as Stefano
Arrivederci e grazie
as Carlo
Police Chief Pepe
as Commissario Antonio Pepe
The Seventh Floor
as Giuseppe Inzerna
The Conjugal Bed
as Alfonso
Property Is No Longer a Theft
as The Butcher
A Matter of Honor
as Efisio Mulas
Come Have Coffee with Us
as Emerenziano Paronzini
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
as Primo Spaggiari
My Police Granny
as Lucio
Un dollaro di fifa
as Alamo
La moglie è uguale per tutti
as Ugo
Outlaws of Love
as Vasco Timballo
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
as Self (segment "La luna di miele")
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
as onorevole De Andreis
Arrivano i bersaglieri
as Don Prospero
Our Husbands
as Umberto Codegato
March on Rome
as Umberto Gavazza
Il generale dorme in piedi
as Col. Umberto Leone
Baby Doll
as Giulio Broggini
Guardatele ma non toccatele
as maresciallo la Notte
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
as Umberto Ciceri
Petomaniac
as Joseph Pujol
The Master and Margarita
as Nikolaj Afanasijevic Maksudov 'Maestro'
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
as Gino Pistone
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Mitch
The Conspirators
as Cardinal Agostino Rivarola
Noi siamo 2 evasi
as Bernardo Cesarotti
Droit de Réponse
as Self
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
as Ugo La Strizza
La Pica sul Pacifico
as Roberto De Nobel
The Man with the Balloons
as Man With Car
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
as Sergente Visicato
Non perdiamo la testa
as Tony Cuccar
Fists, Girls and Sailors
as Capo Campana
Psycosissimo
as Ugo Bertolazzi
Pleased To See You Again
as Mario Aldara
Portrait Of My Father
as Self (archive footage)
I baccanali di Tiberio
as Primo
5 marines per 100 ragazze
as sergente Imparato
Totò in the Moon
as Achille Paoloni
I viaggiatori della sera
as Orso Banti
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marinai, donne e guai
as Capo Campana
Tolérance
as Marmant
The Baron's Mazurka
as Barone Anteo Pellacani
My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
as Giacinto Floria
Una bruna indiavolata!
as Carlo Soldi
The Payoff
as Il Commissario Assenza
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
as 'Cavalier Mele'
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
as Ugo Bitetti
The Audience
as Aureliano Diaz
The Superwitness
as Marino Bottecchia detto 'Mocassino'
The Hours of Love
as Gianni
I magnifici tre
as Domingo
This Kind of Love
as Federico / Federico's father
Domenica è sempre domenica
as Ugo
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
as Alessio / Madame Royale
Genitori in blue-jeans
as Renzino
The Maids
as Mario
Yiddish Connection
as Mosche
Menage Italian Style
as Carlo Vignola Federico Valdesi
Run for Your Wife
as Riccardo
La voglia matta di vivere
as Self (archive footage)
The Woman's Confidant
as Cesar
The Girl of a Thousand Months
as Maurizio d'Alteni
We Like It Cold
as Ugo Bevilacqua
The Climax
as Sergio Masini
E il Casanova di Fellini?
as Self
Il principe fusto
as Frate
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
as Il professore, cliente della stireria (uncredited)
I milanesi a Napoli
as Franco Baraldi
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
as Dottore
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
as Giulio Ambrosio
Tu che ne dici?
as Solitario
I cadetti di Guascogna
as Ugo Bossi
It's a Hard Life
as Luciano Bianchi
Aces to the fore
as Self
Greetings and sons!
as Mario fidanzato di Luciana
Fantasmi e ladri
as Gaetano
Il pollo ruspante
as Togni
La paura fa 90
as Anastasio Lapin / Saverio Bompignac
Follie d'estate
as medico
Fatto su misura
as Nathan
Se vincessi cento milioni
as Ugo (segment "Il principale")
Always on Sunday
as Benito
Sua altezza ha detto: no!
as Ronchi
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