Ugo Tognazzi

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

104

Movies

157

Born: March 23, 1922 – October 27, 1990
From: Cremona, Lombardy, Italy

Biography

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.

Works

157 films

The Key

19836.0

First Love

19785.7

Barbarella

19686.0

My Friends

19758.1

My Friends Act III

19856.4

La Grande Bouffe

19737.1

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

19766.7

Come Home and Meet My Wife

19747.3

Beach House

19776.3

La Cage aux Folles

19786.8

The Bishop's Bedroom

19775.7

La Cage aux Folles II

19806.0

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

19616.7

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

The Shortest Day

19636.4

Traffic Jam

19796.8

I Knew Her Well

19657.4

High Infidelity

19645.3

The Monsters

19637.4

Come Have Coffee with Us

19706.3

Drums of Fire

19906.1

Pigsty

19697.0

The New Monsters

19777.0

Don't Touch the White Woman!

19745.5

Beach Types

19596.8

Weak Spot

19756.5

5 Marines for 100 Girls

19615.9

La Cage aux Folles 3

19855.1

The Conspirators

19697.6

Complexes

19657.0

Nenè

19774.4

Lady Caliph

19705.5

The Magnificent Cuckold

19646.6

Droit de Réponse

19818.3

My Friends Act II

19827.6

Crazy Desire

19626.6

In the Name of the Italian People

19717.2

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

20176.9

Good King Dagobert

19844.2

Dismissed on His Wedding Night

19685.8

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

19637.2

A Matter of Honor

19666.3

Where Are You Going on Holiday?

19785.8

Greetings and sons!

19516.5

Love, the Italian Way

19604.4

Outlaws of Love

19636.1

I'm Photogenic

19805.3

Evil Thoughts

19765.5

The Terrace

19807.2

The Cat

19776.0

Kiss the Other Sheik

19656.4

Laughs Italian Style

19645.9

Sunday Lovers

19805.8

Our Husbands

19666.0

Formula 1 - Speed fever

19787.1

The Joy of Living

19616.2

Run for Your Wife

19656.4

We Are Cinema

20219.5

The Harem

19675.5

Fatto su misura

19857.5

Baby Doll

19687.4

Genitori in blue-jeans

19606.6

The Master and Margarita

19725.3

Pleasant Nights

19666.6

His Women

19615.2

I cadetti di Guascogna

19506.5

Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!

1954

Follie d'estate

1963

The Audience

19726.5

Days of Inspector Ambrosio

19886.5

Property Is No Longer a Theft

19737.2

The Fascist

19616.9

The Ape Woman

19647.3

Totò in the Moon

19585.7

Duck in Orange Sauce

19756.1

Arrivederci e grazie

19885.5

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

19816.5

The Career of a Chambermaid

19765.0

March on Rome

19627.5

The Degenerates

19696.7

The Head of the Family

19676.7

Petomaniac

19835.9

This Kind of Love

19726.0

Psycosissimo

19616.7

Un dollaro di fifa

19605.7

La cambiale

19596.6

Singing Café

19535.8

Guardatele ma non toccatele

19597.0

Yiddish Connection

19868.3

I motorizzati

19625.9

I viaggiatori della sera

19795.5

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

19597.5

La moglie è uguale per tutti

19557.1

We Want the Colonels

19736.6

Domenica è sempre domenica

19586.7

The Woman's Confidant

19595.8

The Conjugal Bed

19636.5

Sua altezza ha detto: no!

19537.0

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

19715.9

The Man with the Balloons

19677.0

Tolérance

19895.5

Always on Sunday

196210.0

La donna degli altri è sempre più bella

19635.4

I baccanali di Tiberio

19605.7

My Police Granny

19587.0

Police Chief Pepe

19695.8

The Wedding March

19666.5

Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses

19686.7

The Maids

19598.0

Fists, Girls and Sailors

19615.3

Controsesso

19646.5

Portrait Of My Father

20107.3

I magnifici tre

19615.4

Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?

19745.5

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno

19846.9

L'Incantevole nemica

19537.0

Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale

19705.6

We Like It Cold

19607.2

The Seventh Floor

19676.0

The Baron's Mazurka

19756.8

The Payoff

19786.3

The Girl of a Thousand Months

19615.5

It's a Hard Life

19646.6

A Very Handy Man

19648.3

A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit

19834.8

Il generale dorme in piedi

19746.4

The Hours of Love

19635.0

La voglia matta di vivere

20229.0

My Pal, Dr. Jekyll

19607.0

The Superwitness

19715.9

Se vincessi cento milioni

195310.0

Unfaithfully Yours

19825.8

Una bruna indiavolata!

19517.0

Pleased To See You Again

19767.0

La paura fa 90

19516.6

Lonely Hearts

19705.5

I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo

19625.8

Tu che ne dici?

19609.0

Noi siamo 2 evasi

19595.5

The Sheriff

19597.8

SuperTotò

19808.0

Menage Italian Style

19657.7

Marinai, donne e guai

19585.9

The Last Minute

19876.1

The Climax

19676.2

Il pollo ruspante

19636.0

I Mostri [Episodi Inediti]

1963

E il Casanova di Fellini?

197510.0

Non perdiamo la testa

19596.2

Arrivano i bersaglieri

19806.2

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

19668.0

La Pica sul Pacifico

19596.3

Le Olimpiadi dei mariti

19606.8

Aces to the fore

19547.0

I milanesi a Napoli

19546.0

Fantasmi e ladri

19596.7

Il principe fusto

196010.0