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.
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Gigi Proietti Biography / Wiki
| Name | Gigi Proietti |
| Also Know | Luigi Proietti |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
| Date of Birth | 1940-11-02 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday | 2020-11-02 |
Gigi Proietti Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Life Is a Wonderful Thing | Claudio | 2010-04-02 | A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an… |
| Horse Fever | Bruno Fioretti, “Mandrake” | 1976-10-29 | Bruno Fioretti, known as “Mandrake”, is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets … |
| Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting | Mandrake/Bruno Fioretti | 2002-10-31 | Seguito de Febbre da cavallo!… |
| All at Sea | Smemorato | 2011-03-11 | Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After… |
| Bambina | Saverio Mazzacolli | 1974-09-17 | In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-dist… |
| Saint Philip Neri I Prefer Heaven | San Filippo Neri | 2010-09-20 | An epic feature film on the famous “Apostle of Rome” and great friend of youth in the 16th century. One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Ph… |
| Vietnam guerra senza fronte | Voce | 1967-01-01 | Documentary directed by Alessandro Perrone…. |
| Meo Patacca | Meo Patacca | 1972-09-27 | Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition… |
| The Sex Machine | Prof. Enrico Coppola | 1975-03-27 | The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of… |
| Il veterinario | Gigi Garulli | 2005-01-30 | Gigi Garulli is a veterinarian who lives with his wife and two children in a beautiful villa. In addition to being a veterinarian, Gigi is also the qu… |
| Il premio | Giovanni Passamonte | 2017-12-06 | After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly…. |
| 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 | 1989-01-01 | … |
| Languidi baci… perfide carezze | Orfeo Scardamazzi | 1976-12-08 | Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi… |
| Un nero per casa | Lorenzo Paradisi | 1998-12-07 | … |
| Il signore della truffa | 2011-10-03 | … | |
| La favolosa storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia e del suo scudiero Sancio Panza inventata da Cervantes ricostruita e rappresentata in uno studio televisivo da una compagnia di attori e di musici con Ronzinante e l’asino animali veri | Don Chisciotte della Mancia | 1970-08-01 | … |
| Gigi Proietti – La canzone del cane Milù | 1983-01-01 | … | |
| Luigi Proietti detto Gigi | Se stesso | 2022-03-03 | Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020… |
| Serata d’Onore: Gigi Proietti | 2005-01-11 | … | |
| Gigi Proietti Show – A me gli occhi 2000 | 2000-05-02 | … | |
| The Howl | Carlo detto ‘Coso’ | 1970-05-01 | A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encoun… |
| A summer at the sea | Giulio / Narrator | 2008-06-27 | Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship…. |
| Sue Me | Luigi Marchetti | 1984-01-01 | Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of proble… |
| Lady Liberty | Michel Bruni | 1971-12-22 | The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Maddalena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country carryi… |
| La Tosca | Mario Cavaradossi | 1973-03-23 | To the St. Andrew’s Church in Rome comes a fugitive – Cesare Angelotti, former consul, who was sentenced to death for taking a part in a conspiracy ag… |
| Ma tu di che segno 6? | Avvocato Giuliano De Marchis | 2014-12-11 | A few stories about the different Zodiac signs…. |
| House of Pleasure for Women | Ivanoe (as Luigi Proietti) | 1976-01-23 | The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has… |
| I Am Santa Claus | Nicola/Babbo Natale | 2021-11-03 | Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want hi… |
| The Libertine | Sandro Maldini | 1968-12-23 | A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own s… |
| I Don’t Understand You Anymore | Alberto Spinelli | 1980-10-03 | … |
| Dropout | Cieco | 1970-12-18 | Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love…. |
| Two Pieces of Bread | Albergatore | 1979-01-26 | Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they’ve both been lovers to the same woman, and one of them is the father of her infant son; a… |
| Di padre in figlio | Se stesso | 1982-01-01 | … |
| Uberto degli specchi | 2016-12-22 | … | |
| The Misanthrope | Acasto | 1967-01-01 | Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that social habits and the necessities of life do not fit th… |
| Beach House | Gigi | 1977-10-27 | Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women’s basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men wit… |
| Bubu | Giulio – the Thief | 1971-02-16 | Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find th… |
| Soldier’s Girl | Cesare Bottazzi | 1967-04-13 | Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in t… |
| The Inheritance | Pippo Ferramonti | 1976-08-11 | Rome, 1880. Gregorio Ferramonti (Anthony Quinn) has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo (Gigi Proietti), Ma… |
| Alberto il grande | Self | 2013-02-16 | Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February … |
| Pinocchio | Mangiafuoco | 2019-12-19 | In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pin… |
| Mai storie d’amore in cucina | 2004-05-09 | … | |
| The Jokes | il Padreterno/cameriere/portantino ospedaliero/cantante messicano/contadino/avvocato e cliente/direttore d’orchestra | 2004-02-06 | … |
| Indovina chi viene a Natale? | Leonardo Sereni | 2013-12-19 | A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, w… |
| Brancaleone at the Crusades | Pattume; Colombino; la Morte | 1970-12-24 | After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Cru… |
| A Rather Complicated Girl | Pietro | 1969-02-07 | Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painte… |
| Istintobrass | Self | 2013-08-30 | One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifte… |
| FF.SS. cioè ‘…che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?’ | Curtatone | 1983-01-01 | … |
| Gli ordini sono ordini | Mario Pasini | 1972-04-13 | Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary… |
| Pleasant Nights | Maresciallo (as Luigi Proietti) | 1966-04-04 | A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages…. |
| Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Ravello | 1978-09-13 | Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each… |
| Sono Gassman! – Vittorio re della commedia | Himself | 2018-10-21 | This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a… |
| Catch As Catch Can | Truccatore | 1967-10-05 | Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!… |
| Box Office 3D – Il film dei film | Professor Silenzio | 2011-09-09 | An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as “Gladiator, ” “Harry Potter”, “Fast and Furious” and “The Da Vinci Code”…. |
| Dirty Linen | Prof. Rodolfo Melchiorri | 1999-01-29 | The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market bring… |
| Chi dice donna, dice donna | Sonia / Filippo | 1976-02-11 | Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb a… |
| D’Artagnan’s Daughter | Giulio Mazarino | 1994-08-24 | It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he’s taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and th… |
| Fellini of the Spirits | Self | 2020-08-31 | 2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Federico Fellini, the most prominent Italian director and one of the symbols of the insuperable cinematic heyd… |
| Voi siete qui | 2011-09-08 | … | |
| Playback – Il caso Malien | 2016-01-01 | … | |
| Un’estate ai Caraibi | Alberto | 2009-06-12 | Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there s… |
| Sogni e bisogni | Pompeo | 1985-10-06 | … |
| Property Is No Longer a Theft | Paco | 1973-10-03 | A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business u… |
| Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore | Self | 2010-09-01 | … |
| A Wedding | Dino Corelli | 1978-08-29 | Muffin’s wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn’t too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as… |
| Let’s Talk About Women | Omero (uncredited) | 1964-03-28 | Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker … |
| Mille bolle blu | Narratore | 1993-01-01 | … |
Gigi Proietti Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Un nero per casa | Director | 1998-12-07 | … |
| Director | Villa Arzilla is an Italian television series…. | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Un nero per casa | Writer | 1998-12-07 | … |
| The Howl | Dialogue | 1970-05-01 | A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encoun… |
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| Creator | Villa Arzilla is an Italian television series…. | ||
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