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