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.
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La voglia matta di vivere
2022·9.0
We Are Cinema
2021·9.5
Morceaux de Cannes
2021·2.0
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017·6.9
Portrait Of My Father
2010·7.3
Drums of Fire
1990·6.1
Tolérance
1989·5.5
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
1988·6.5
Arrivederci e grazie
1988·5.5
The Last Minute
1987·6.1
Yiddish Connection
1986·8.3
La Cage aux Folles 3
1985·5.1
My Friends Act III
1985·6.4
Fatto su misura
1985·7.5
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
1984·6.9
Good King Dagobert
1984·4.2
Petomaniac
1983·5.9
The Key
1983·6.0
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
1983·4.8
My Friends Act II
1982·7.6
Unfaithfully Yours
1982·5.8
Droit de Réponse
1981·8.3
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
1981·6.5
La Cage aux Folles II
1980·6.0
Sunday Lovers
1980·5.8
Arrivano i bersaglieri
1980·6.2
SuperTotò
1980·8.0
I'm Photogenic
1980·5.3
The Terrace
1980·7.2
I viaggiatori della sera
1979·5.5
Traffic Jam
1979·6.8
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
1978·5.8
First Love
1978·5.7
La Cage aux Folles
1978·6.8
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978·7.1
The Payoff
1978·6.3
The Cat
1977·6.0
The New Monsters
1977·7.0
Beach House
1977·6.3
Nenè
1977·4.4
The Bishop's Bedroom
1977·5.5
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976·6.7
Evil Thoughts
1976·5.5
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976·5.0
Pleased To See You Again
1976·7.0
Duck in Orange Sauce
1975·6.1
My Friends
1975·8.1
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975·10.0
The Baron's Mazurka
1975·6.8
Weak Spot
1975·6.5
Come Home and Meet My Wife
1974·7.3
Il generale dorme in piedi
1974·6.4
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
1974·5.5
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974·5.5
Property Is No Longer a Theft
1973·7.2
La Grande Bouffe
1973·7.1
We Want the Colonels
1973·6.6
The Master and Margarita
1972·5.3
The Audience
1972·6.5
This Kind of Love
1972·6.0
In the Name of the Italian People
1971·7.2
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
1971·5.9
The Superwitness
1971·5.9
Lady Caliph
1970·5.5
Come Have Coffee with Us
1970·6.3
Lonely Hearts
1970·5.5
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
1970·5.6
The Conspirators
1969·7.6
Police Chief Pepe
1969·5.8
Pigsty
1969·7.0
The Degenerates
1969·6.7
Baby Doll
1968·7.4
Dismissed on His Wedding Night
1968·5.8
Barbarella
1968·6.0
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
1968·6.7
The Harem
1967·5.5
The Head of the Family
1967·6.7
The Man with the Balloons
1967·7.0
The Seventh Floor
1967·6.0
The Climax
1967·6.2
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
1966·8.0
Pleasant Nights
1966·6.6
Our Husbands
1966·6.0
A Matter of Honor
1966·6.3
The Wedding March
1966·6.5
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965·6.4
Menage Italian Style
1965·7.7
I Knew Her Well
1965·7.4
Complexes
1965·7.0
Run for Your Wife
1965·6.4
Controsesso
1964·6.5
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964·6.6
Laughs Italian Style
1964·5.9
It's a Hard Life
1964·6.6
The Ape Woman
1964·7.3
A Very Handy Man
1964·8.3
High Infidelity
1964·5.3
Outlaws of Love
1963·6.1
Follie d'estate
1963·0.0
The Monsters
1963·7.4
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I Mostri [Episodi Inediti]
1963·0.0
The Conjugal Bed
1963·6.5
The Hours of Love
1963·5.0
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
1963·5.4
Il pollo ruspante
1963·6.0
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
1963·7.2
The Shortest Day
1963·6.4
March on Rome
1962·7.5
I motorizzati
1962·5.9
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
1962·5.8
Crazy Desire
1962·6.6
Always on Sunday
1962·10.0
His Women
1961·5.2
Fists, Girls and Sailors
1961·5.3
I magnifici tre
1961·5.4
The Girl of a Thousand Months
1961·5.5
5 marines per 100 ragazze
1961·5.9
The Fascist
1961·6.9
The Joy of Living
1961·6.2
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
1961·6.7
Psycosissimo
1961·6.7
Love, the Italian Way
1960·4.4
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
1960·6.8
We Like It Cold
1960·7.2
Un dollaro di fifa
1960·5.7
My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
1960·7.0
Il principe fusto
1960·10.0
Tu che ne dici?
1960·9.0
Genitori in blue-jeans
1960·6.6
I baccanali di Tiberio
1960·5.7
La cambiale
1959·6.6
Tipi da spiaggia
1959·6.8
The Sheriff
1959·7.8
Guardatele ma non toccatele
1959·7.0
Noi siamo 2 evasi
1959·5.5
The Woman's Confidant
1959·5.8
The Maids
1959·8.0
La Pica sul Pacifico
1959·6.3
Non perdiamo la testa
1959·6.2
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959·7.5
Fantasmi e ladri
1959·6.7
Totò in the Moon
1958·5.7
Marinai, donne e guai
1958·5.9
My Police Granny
1958·7.0
Domenica è sempre domenica
1958·6.7
La moglie è uguale per tutti
1955·7.1
I milanesi a Napoli
1954·6.0
Aces to the fore
1954·7.0
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
1954·0.0
Singing Café
1953·5.8
Sua altezza ha detto: no!
1953·7.0
Se vincessi cento milioni
1953·10.0
L'Incantevole nemica
1953·7.0
Una bruna indiavolata!
1951·7.0
La paura fa 90
1951·6.6
Greetings and sons!
1951·6.5
I cadetti di Guascogna
1950·6.5