Paolo Villaggio

...Martello ritorna dalla battaglia di Poitiers" ("Charles Martel on His Way Back from Poitiers" -written together with actor Paolo Villaggio, one of De Andre closest friends-), and "La canzone di Marinella" ("Marinella's Song"). In 1968,...

In this article: Rimini, Genoa, Marinella, Mina, and Volume 8

The Voice of the Moon () is a 1990 film by Italian director Federico Fellini, featuring actors Paolo Villaggio and Roberto Benigni. Returning to themes he first explored in La strada (1954), Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the...

In this article: Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, Dante Ferretti, Roberto Benigni, The Voice of the Moon, Giacomo Leopardi, Tullio Kezich, and La strada

...Falchi started her career as a model. She first appeared on television in a commercial for an Italian bank in 1992. The ad starred Paolo Villaggio, and was directed by the famous Federico Fellini. This helped her launch a film career,...

In this article: Anna Falchi, Cemetery Man, Desideria e l'Anello del Drago, Dylan Dog, Federico Fellini, Dellamorte Dellamore, Tampere, and U.S.

...a 1975 cult Italian comedy movie. It is the first film in the saga of the unlucky Italian clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. The movie starts with Pina, Ugo Fantozzi's wife, calling the...

In this article: New Year's Eve, Tarzan, Rita Hayworth, and Fantozzi

Paolo Villaggio (born 31 December 1932) is an Italian actor, writer, director and comedian, especially famous for his grotesque irony and satire. Born in Genoa in 1932, Villaggio lived his childhood in poverty due to World War II. Later he...

In this article: World War II, L'espresso, Ezio Greggio, Mario Monicelli, Ermanno Olmi, and Federico Fellini

...miscarriages of justice of the Italian judiciary system. After taking a degree in journalism in Genoa, he worked in theatre with Paolo Villaggio before joining the RAI - Italy's state radio and television corporation - as a radio announcer.

In this article: Genoa, Illinois, Giovanni Melluso, Cocaine, Cancer, Camorra, Supreme Court, and Italy

...Anna Magnani, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Sandrelli, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Enrico Montesano, Gian Maria Volonte, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi and Leonardo Pieraccioni. Upon receiving his Golden Lion for Career in the 1991...

In this article: Mario Monicelli, Venice Film Festival, Academy Awards, Brancaleone, Toto, Alberto Sordi, Amici miei, Brancaleone at the Crusades, and Steno

...song "Brave Margot", which he wrote in 1952 . "Carlo Martello ritorna dalla battaglia di Poitiers", co-written with actor Paolo Villaggio, is based on the figure of Charles Martel, and tells an episode of his return to France after the...

In this article: Georges Brassens, Suicide, Charles Martel, Battle of Poitiers, Luigi Tenco, Enzo Jannacci, and BMG

...Ponzi, inspired to Ben Jonson's comedy with the same name . Set in the Ligurian rivera during the 1980s, it features Paolo Villaggio as Ugo Maria Volpone a rich but apparently ill ship company owner. He is surrounded by a series of...

In this article: Enrico Montesano and Enrico Maria Salerno

...and teach chronically truant children who only respect violence and power. The film was directed by Lina Wertmuller and stars Paolo Villaggio. Reviewer Marc Vincenti notes of the film's R rating, "Why, you might ask, is a film that is...

In this article: Lina Wertmuller, Italy, and Naples