Paolo Villaggio

Actor

December 31, 1932 (84 years)

† July 3, 2017

Genova, Liguria, Italy

Biography

Paolo Villaggio (30 December 1932 — 3 July 2017) was an Italian actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid Giandomenico Fracchia, and the obsequious and meek accountant Ugo Fantozzi, perhaps the favourite character in Italian comedy. He wrote several books, usually of satirical character. He also acted in dramatic roles, and appeared in several movies.

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.

6.2

Carabinieri

Giovanni Benelli

Carabinieri is an Italian television series that aired on Canale 5 from March 2002 to July 30, 2008. The series is an action thriller with added elements of comedy, and has been compared to the soap opera format. It told the story of the police barracks located in Città della Pieve.

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Domenica In

Self

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5.3

School of Thieves 2

Dalmazio Siraghi

In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them.

5.7

School of Thieves

Dalmazio Siraghi

Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude.

5.8

Department Store

Detenuto Turati / Robot

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

7.0

Sogni e bisogni

Orazio

A TV series composed of eleven episodes and a conclusion, it aired in six one-hour programs starting on October 6, 1985. Lasting about half an hour each, the episodes are separated by intermissions starring three characters: Good, Evil, and Destiny. LA MORTE PORTA CONSIGLIO: At her father's deathbed, a daughter asks the man to tell her the winning Lotto numbers once he makes it to the after-life. But the man is offended by the modest funeral he receives and has fun playing pranks on his daughter. IL FATTACCIO: a doorman is paid to show an apartment in which something gruesome happened. Determined to keep the extra work, he invents increasingly grisly stories to keep interested buyers away. LADRI: two thieves in a working-class neighborhood have tragicomic adventures. L’IMBIANCONE: a very shy man enters a shoe store to buy a pair of shoes and seduce the female shop owner.

6.1

Who's Afraid of Dracula?

Giandomenico Fracchia

Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!

10.0

Indietro tutta!

Se stesso

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4.8

Rimini Rimini

Ermenegildo Morelli

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.

6.7

Fantozzi Against the Wind

Rag. Ugo Fantozzi

The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.

5.5

The Apocalypse

Gaio

The film is set in 90 AD and concerns Jesus Christ's last surviving disciple, John of Patmos, and his writings and visions from the Apocalypse of John. Emperor Domitian has declared himself to be God and ruler, over heaven and earth. The Christians do not recognize his divinity and face persecution, from the God Emperor. John has been imprisoned on, the island of Patmos, a Roman mining, penal colony, with many others. He writes out messages of his visions and sends the "Revelation of God", to the seven churches of Greek Asia Minor. The Christian church, in Ephesus, sends Irene to make sure John is alive and to confer with him in person. The movie depicts scenes from the Book of Revelation and links them to events happening to the church in Asia.

7.8

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

Ugo Fantozzi

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.

7.5

The Second Tragic Fantozzi

Ugo Fantozzi

The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.

4.9

Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot

Dr. Jekyll / Mr Hyde

A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll.

7.0

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

Self - Actor (archive footage)

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

6.1

Fantozzi Retires

Rag. Ugo Fantozzi

After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.

6.0

Fantozzi to the Rescue

Rag. Ugo Fantozzi

Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.

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Babau

No description available

6.7

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Professor Schmidt / Presentatore quiz

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.