Cast
Gigi Ballista
Acting
Cast
Gigi Ballista
Known for
Acting
Born
1918-12-01
From
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Died
1980-08-02
Also known as Giggi Ballista, Luigi Ballista
Biography
Gigi Ballista (1 December 1918 – 2 August 1980) was an Italian film and television actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1961 and 1980. Born in Florence, Ballista graduated in Law, then he started working as a PR consultant in the field of advertising and industrial documentaries. He debuted as an actor at a mature age in the early 1960s with some minor roles, but his breakout came in 1966 with a role of weight in Pietro Germi's The Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Following the critical and commercial success of the film, Ballista decided to pursue a professional career as an actor, and he became, mainly thanks to his characteristic hoarse and dysphonic voice, one of the most recognizable character actors in Italian cinema and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gigi Ballista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
★7.4
MOVIE1978
Midnight Express
as Chief Judge
★5.6
MOVIE1976
Salon Kitty
as Nazi General
★5.9
MOVIE1974
Stavisky...
as Gaston Henriet
★5.9
MOVIE1973
Giovannona Long-Thigh
as Commendatore La Noce
★4.4
MOVIE1966
How I Learned to Love Women
as sir Archibald
★5.3
MOVIE1975
The Family Vice
as Conte Giosuè
★5.0
MOVIE1976
Under the Sheets
as Professor Ciotti
★7.1
MOVIE1966
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
as Giacinto Castellan
★5.2
MOVIE1977
The Schoolmate
as Girardi
★5.1
MOVIE1981
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
as Bishop
★6.0
MOVIE1976
Confessions of a Lady Cop
as Questore Moretti
★5.8
MOVIE1973
Blume in Love
as Older Man
★6.9
MOVIE1970
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Padre Polenta
★7.3
MOVIE1974
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
as doctor
★8.0
MOVIE1975
Il fratello
★4.7
MOVIE1977
Mala, Love and Death
as Carlo Alberto Giorgi
★4.8
MOVIE1967
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
as Aldo
★6.5
MOVIE1975
The Sunday Woman
as Vollero
★4.3
MOVIE1974
Poker in Bed
as comm. Gervasio Caminata
★5.6
MOVIE1974
Policewoman
as avvocato
★6.0
MOVIE1971
Roma bene
as Vitozzi
★5.3
MOVIE1972
Black Turin
as Marinotti
★5.5
MOVIE1970
Lady Caliph
as Il principe industriale
★8.0
MOVIE1974
Fischia Il Sesso
as Mr. Lewis
★6.7
MOVIE1968
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
as Engineer
★4.3
MOVIE1972
1001 Nights of Pleasure
as Genie in Lamp
★7.3
MOVIE1976
Horse Fever
as Count Dallara
★5.0
MOVIE1964
The Maniacs
as Count at the Party (segment "l'hobby") (uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1974
Italian Sex
as padre di Carletto
★4.4
MOVIE1968
Emma Hamilton
as Cardinal Ruffo
★6.3
MOVIE1968
Galileo
as commissario domenicano
★4.6
MOVIE1971
Do Not Commit Adultery
as Padre Spiridione
★5.4
MOVIE1966
The Queens
as The Priest ("Fata Marta")
★6.2
MOVIE1967
The Climax
as Don Michele
★10.0
MOVIE1976
Un amore targato Forlì
★5.2
MOVIE1970
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
as Il medico
★6.6
MOVIE1966
Pleasant Nights
as Luca di Montemerlo
★5.5
MOVIE1974
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
as Gino's Friend
★4.9
MOVIE1971
No One Will Notice You're Naked
as Silvio Borelon
★5.8
MOVIE1973
The Lady Has Been Raped
as Carini
★3.8
MOVIE1970
Una storia d'amore
as Borgognini
★5.8
MOVIE1972
Snow Job
★6.8
MOVIE1971
Trastevere
as Count
★7.4
MOVIE1972
Blessed Are the Rich
as Commendatore
★4.0
MOVIE1973
Increase and Multiply
as Dottore
★6.0
MOVIE1967
The Seventh Floor
as medico
★6.2
MOVIE1976
La madama
as The Venetian
★7.0
MOVIE1975
The Noon Vigilante
as direttore Filiberto Rossetti
★3.7
MOVIE1965
Il morbidone
★4.6
MOVIE1980
I Hate Blondes
as Psychiatrist
★9.0
MOVIE1974
Anima mia
as Filippo Tornabuoni
★10.0
MOVIE1968
Sunstroke
as Conte Malvezzi
★4.9
MOVIE1979
Liquirizia
as Bartolozzi
★3.2
MOVIE1975
Cassiodorus Is the Hardest Praetorian
as Cornelius da Mediolanum