Johnny Dorelli

Actor

February 20, 1937 (89 years)

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Biography

Johnny Dorelli (born 20 February 1937) is an Italian actor, singer and showman. Born as Giorgio Guidi in Meda, he debuted as singer in the late 1950s for CGD label. In 1958 he won the Sanremo Festival in duo with Domenico Modugno, with the songs "Nel blu dipinto di blu" (also known as "Volare") and "Piove (Ciao ciao bambina)". "L'immensità" earned Dorelli a ninth place at the 1967 edition of the Sanremo Song Festival. His greatest success was the musical Aggiungi un posto a tavola, which was a…

Filmography

7.9

Sanremo Music Festival

Self - Host

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Domenica In

Self

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6.5

Cuore

Maestro Perboni

Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.

5.3

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

Alberto Castelli

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

7.2

Bread and Chocolate

Italian Industrialist

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

4.5

Sesso e volentieri

Husband of Linda / Nino Pacini / Luca / Client of Antonio / Pino Franceschi / Garbelli / Giorgio Giovanardi / Supermarket client / Vito Punturieri / Stelio Rapazzoni

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

6.9

State buoni se potete

Don Filippo Neri

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.

6.5

I Don't Understand You Anymore

Paolo Malpieri

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.

3.6

Love in 4 Easy Lessons

Marco Antonioli (segment "La visita")

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

4.4

Tesoromio

Enrico Moroni

Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.

5.0

I'm Getting a Yacht

Dr. Piero Savelli

A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.

5.9

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio

Il mago Gaspar (episodio "Il mago")

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs. The title translates as "Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel".

6.6

And Agnes Chose To Die

Walter

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

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Die diebischen Zwillinge

Manager Alberto

The twins Judy and Kathy are two successful show dancers who are supported by their manager Alberto. In addition to their talent for the big stage, the two also have another gift: they are gifted thieves. The fact that they look like two peas in a pod is often a great advantage. Alberto can't do anything about it and usually has to get them out of trouble.

5.0

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up

Don Celeste Restani

At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.

6.6

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

Carlo Caprioli

A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.

5.6

The Odd Squad

Ten. Federico Tocci

Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!

5.9

My Loves

Marco Rossi

Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find another husband, the university professor Antonio, who marries without the first being able to notice it. Until she gets pregnant.

4.7

Sweetheart

Alfredo Meneghini

Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.

6.4

The Fiend

Valerio Barigozzi

A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.