Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (2 November 1940 – 2 November 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, musician, singer and television presenter. After several stage works, in 1966 Proietti debuted both in cinema, in Pleasant Nights, and on television, in the TV series I grandi camaleonti. His first personal success came in 1971, when he replaced Domenico Modugno in the stage musical Alleluja brava gente by Garinei & Giovannini, starring alongside Renato Rascel. In 1974, after playing the role of Neri Chiaramantesi in the drama La cena delle beffe, alongside Carmelo Bene and Vittorio Gassman, in 1976 started a fruitful collaboration with playwright Roberto Lerici, with whom he wrote and directed his stage plays, starting with the one-man show A me gli occhi, please (Give me your eyes, please, 1976, reported on the scene in 1993, 1996 and 2000, in a memorable performance at the Olympic Stadium in his hometown). Initially planned to be performed 6 times, the show exceeded 300 performances, with an average audience of 2,000 per performance. He took part in several international movies, including The Appointment (1969), directed by Sidney Lumet, A Wedding (1978), directed by Robert Altman, and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), directed by Ted Kotcheff. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gigi Proietti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2022Viaggio senza ritorno
• 2021I Am Santa Claus — Nicola Natalizzi/Babbo Natale
• 2019Pinocchio — Mangiafuoco
• Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures
• 2017Gigi Proietti in Edmund Kean — Director
• 2017Il premio — Giovanni Passamonte
• Warhorses — Self, Creator
• 2016Playback - Il caso Malien
• 2016Uberto degli specchi
• 2015A qualcuno piacerà - Storia e storie di Elio Pandolfi — Sé stesso
• 2014Ma tu di che segno 6? — Avvocato Giuliano De Marchis
• Una pallottola nel cuore — Bruno Plamieri
• 2013Indovina chi viene a Natale? — Leonardo Sereni
• L'ultimo Papa Re — cardinal Romeo Colombo da Priverno
• 2012L'Aquila - Cultura rinascente — Sé stesso
• 2011All at Sea — Smemorato
• 2011Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films — Professor Silenzio
• 2011Il signore della truffa
• The Lord of the Scam — Federico Sinacori/Nicola Persico
• 2010Life Is a Wonderful Thing — Claudio
• 2010Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven — San Filippo Neri
• Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven — San Filippo Neri
• 2009A Summer in the Caribbean — Alberto
• 2008A summer at the sea — Giulio / Narrator
• Il Maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia — Giovanni Rocca
• The Cesaronis — Se stesso
• 2005Serata d'Onore: Gigi Proietti
• 2004Mai storie d'amore in cucina
• 2004The Jokes — il Padreterno/cameriere/portantino ospedaliero/cantante messicano/contadino/avvocato e cliente/direttore d'orchestra
• 2002Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting — Mandrake/Bruno Fioretti
• 2000Gigi Proietti Show - A me gli occhi 2000
• 2000Monster Mash — Yorik (voice)
• Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan? — Ospite
• 1999Dirty Linen — Prof. Rodolfo Melchiorri
• 1998Un nero per casa — Lorenzo Paradisi, Director, Writer
• L'avvocato Porta — Antonio Porta
• The Marshal Rocca — Maresciallo Giovanni Rocca
• 1994D'Artagnan's Daughter — Giulio Mazarino
• Italian Restaurant — Giulio Broccoli, Idea, Creator
• 1993Mille bolle blu — Narratore
• Club 92
• Villa Arzilla — Il giardiniere, Director, Creator
• 1989I 7 Re di Roma — Tiberino, Enea, Fauno Luperco, Romolo, Numa Pompilio, Tullo Ostilio, padre degli Orazi, Anco Marzio, Tarquinio Prisco, Servio Tullio, Tarquinio il Superbo, Bruto
• Sogni e bisogni — Pompeo
• 1985Sue Me — Luigi Marchetti
• 1983FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?' — Curtatone
• 1983Gigi Proietti - La canzone del cane Milù
• American Playhouse — Ferguson
• Attore, amore mio — Conduttore, Writer
• 1980I Don't Understand You Anymore — Alberto Spinelli
• 1979Two Pieces of Bread — Albergatore
• 1978A Wedding — Dino Corelli I
• 1978Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? — Ravello
• 1977Beach House — Gigi
• 1977Edipo Re
• 1976Chi dice donna, dice donna — Sonia / Filippo
• 1976Horse Fever — Bruno "Mandrake" Fioretti
• 1976House of Pleasure for Women — Ivanoe (as Luigi Proietti)
• 1976Languidi baci... perfide carezze — Orfeo Scardamazzi
• 1976The Inheritance — Pippo Ferramonti
• 1975The Sex Machine — Prof. Enrico Coppola
• 1974Bambina — Saverio Mazzacolli
• Sabato sera dalle nove alle dieci — Conduttore / protagonista
• 1973La Tosca — Mario Cavaradossi
• 1973Property Is No Longer a Theft — Paco
• 1972Meo Patacca — Meo Patacca
• 1972Orders are Orders — Mario Pasini
• 1971Bubu — Giulio - the Thief
• Great Performances — Ferguson
• 1971Lady Liberty — Michel Bruni
• 1970Brancaleone at the Crusades — Pattume; Colombino; la Morte
• 1970Dropout — Cieco
• La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia — Don Chisciotte
• 1970The Howl — Carlo detto 'Coso', Dialogue
• 1969A Rather Complicated Girl — Pietro
• 1969The Appointment
• Il Circolo Pickwick — Jingle
• 1968Piccoli borghesi — Nil
• Tartarino sulle Alpi
• 1968The Libertine — Sandro Maldini
• 1967Catch As Catch Can — Truccatore
• 1967Soldier's Girl — Cesare Bottazzi
• 1967The Misanthrope — Acasto
• 1967Vietnam guerra senza fronte — Voce
• 1966Pleasant Nights — Maresciallo (as Luigi Proietti)
• I grandi camaleonti — generale Moureau
• 1964Let's Talk About Women — Omero (uncredited)
• 1955Il nostro campione

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2022Luigi Proietti detto Gigi — Self
• 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Fellini of the Spirits — Self
• TV Story Superstar — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia — Self
• 2013Alberto il grande — Self
• 2013Istintobrass — Self
• 2011Voi siete qui — Self
• 2010Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore — Self
• Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery — Self
• 1982Di padre in figlio — Self