Paolo Villaggio

Paolo Villaggio (2008)

Paolo Villaggio (born December 30, 1932 in Genoa , † July 3, 2017 in Rome ) was an Italian actor , director and writer .

Life

Paolo and his twin brother Piero Villaggio were born in Genoa in 1932 as the sons of an engineer and a German teacher . He worked as an employee and also appeared on small stages in Genoa as an actor. In 1966 Ivo Chiesa engaged him at the Teatro Stabile, where he played in avant-garde productions. Villaggio also worked successfully on television in the late 1960s as a presenter and comedian in the role of an employee who bothered with the whims of his boss.

In 1968 Villaggio made his film debut. He played prominent leading roles in Vittorio Gassman's Senza famiglia nullatenenti cercano affetto (1972) and Nanni Loy's Sistemo l'America e torno (1974). The high point of his film success in Italy was the comedy The Biggest Cattle Far and Wide by Luciano Salce in 1975 , in which Villaggio impersonated his well-known TV character “Fantozzi” for the first time on the screen. In Germany he achieved his title role in Robinson jr. (1976) Notoriety. In the 1970s and 80s he took part in numerous undemanding comedies and repeated his success several times with the "Fantozzi" role. In 1990 he played a leading role in Federico Fellini's last film The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna) , which marked the beginning of the breakaway from his stereotypical role cliché. He consolidated this new position with his roles in Ermanno Olmi's Il segreto del bosco vecchio (1993) and Mario Monicelli's Cari fottutissimi amici (1994). His work includes around 80 film and television productions.

Villaggio was also the author of numerous short stories about the hapless accountant Fantozzi, as well as other texts and an autobiography.

He was a member of the left parties Partito Comunista Italiano and the Democrazia Proletaria . For the latter, he ran unsuccessfully to the Italian parliamentary election in 1987. In 1994 he ran for the Lista Pannella of the left-liberal politician Marco Pannella . In 2013 he expressed his support for the 5-star movement Beppe Grillos .

Villaggio died in Rome on July 3, 2017 at the age of 84.

Prizes and awards

Paolo Villaggio received the Italian Film Award ( David ) in 1990 for his role in The Voice of the Moon . In 1992 he was awarded the Golden Lion for life's work at the Venice Film Festival . At the Locarno International Film Festival , the Golden Leopard followed in 2000 .

Filmography

cinemamovies

• 1968: Eat it (Mangiala!) - Director: Francesco Casaretti
• 1969: Il terribile ispettore - Director: Mario Amendola
• 1969: I quattro del Pater Noster
• 1969: Pensando a te - Director: Aldo Grimaldi
• 1970: Brancaleone on a crusade to the Holy Land (Brancaleone alle crociate) - Director: Mario Monicelli
• 1970: La torta in cielo - Director: Lino Del Fra
• 1972: Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto - Director: Vittorio Gassman
• 1972: Beati i ricchi - Director: Salvatore Samperi
• 1972: Pray, Amigo! (Che c'entriamo noi con la rivoluzione?)
• 1974: I'm going to America (Sistemo l'America e torno) - Director: Nanni Loy
• 1973: Don't touch the white woman (Touche pas à la femme blanche)
• 1974: Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1975: Di che segno sei? - Directed by Sergio Corbucci
• 1975: La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone - Director: Pupi Avati
• 1975: The Biggest Cattle Far and Wide (Fantozzi) - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1976: Il secondo tragico Fantozzi - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1976: Source strane occasioni Episode: Italian Superman - Director: Sergio Corbucci
• 1976: Robinson Jr. (Signor Robinson, mostruosa storia d'amore e d'avventure)
• 1977: Il… Belpaese - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1977: Tre tigri contro tre tigri - directed by Sergio Corbucci, Stefano Vanzina
• 1978: Quando c'era lui… caro lei! - Director: Giancarlo Santi
• 1978: Dove vai in vacanza? Episode Sì buana - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1978: Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1978: Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra - Director: Giorgio Capitani
• 1979: Dr. Jekyll's scary horror trip (Dottor Jekyll e gentile signora) - Director: Stefano Vanzina
• 1979: A bank clerk in distress (Rag. Arturo De Fanti, bancario - precario) - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1980: Mirandolina (La locandiera) - Director: Paolo Cavara
• 1980: Fantozzi contro tutti - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1981: Il turno - Director: Tonino Cervi
• 1981: The double hero (Fracchia la belva umana) - directed by Neri Parenti
• 1982: A Spicy Dream (Sogni mostruosamente proibiti) - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1982: Bonnie and Clyde in Italian (Bonnie e Clyde all'italiana) - Director: Stefano Vanzina
• 1982: Pappa e ciccia - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1983: Fantozzi subisce ancora - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1984: As you me, so I you (A tu per tu) - Director: Sergio Corbucci
• 1985: I Pompieri - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1985: Two idiots strike (Fracchia contro Dracula) - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1986: I still can't get the door shut (Superfantozzi) - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1986: Grandi magazzini - directed by Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia
• 1986: Stealing wants to be learned (Scuola di ladri) - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1987: Roba da ricchi - Director: Sergio Corbucci
• 1987: Rimini Rimini - Director: Sergio Corbucci
• 1987: Missione Eroica - I pompieri 2 - Director: Giorgio Capitani
• 1987: Crooks have a hard time (Scuola di ladri - parte seconda) - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1988: Com'è dura l'avventura - Director: Flavio Mogherini
• 1988: The Cunning Fox (Il volpone) - Director: Maurizio Ponzi
• 1988: Fantozzi retires (Fantozzi va in pensione) - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1989: Ho vinto la lotteria di capodanno - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1990: Fantozzi alla riscossa - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1990: Le comiche - Directed by Neri Parenti
• 1990: The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna) - Director: Federico Fellini
• 1992: Le comiche 2 - Directed by Neri Parenti
• 1992: Sperelli prevails (Io speriamo che me la cavo) - Director: Lina Wertmüller
• 1993: Il segreto del bosco vecchio - Director: Ermanno Olmi
• 1993: Fantozzi in paradiso - directed by Neri Parenti
• 1994: Cari fottutissimi amici - Director: Mario Monicelli
• 1994: Le nuove comiche - Directed by Neri Parenti
• 1995: I don't speak English (Io no spik inglish) - Director: Carlo Vanzina
• 1995: Camerieri - Director: Leone Pompucci
• 1995: Free Snowball - Save the White Whale (Palla di neve) - Director: Maurizio Nichetti
• 1996: Fantozzi - Il ritorno - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1997: Banzai - Director: Carlo Vanzina
• 1998: Un bugiardo in paradiso - directed by Enrico Oldoini
• 1999: Fantozzi 2000 - La clonazione - Director: Domenico Saverni
• 2000: Azzurro (Azzurro)
• 2000: Denti - Director: Gabriele Salvatores
• 2001: Heidi - Director: Markus Imboden
• 2005: Gas - Directed by Luciano Melchionna
• 2007: Hermano - Director: Giovanni Robbiano
• 2008: Torno a vivere da solo - Director: Jerry Calà

Television films

• 2002: The Bible - The Apocalypse (San Giovanni - L'apocalisse) - Director: Raffaele Mertes
• 2004: Renzo e Lucia - Director: Francesca Archibugi

TV Shows

• 1969: Il killer
• 1975: Giandomenico Fracchia
• 1985: Grand Hotel
• 1985: Sogni e bisogni
• 1986: Un fantastico tragico venerdì
• 1999: Angelo di seconda class
• 2002–2008: Carabinieri

Web links

Commons : Paolo Villaggio  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Paolo Villaggio in the Internet Movie Database (English)