Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director. Specifically, Nanni Loy was Sardinian, and one of several notable Sardinian film makers, including Franco Solinas. Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia: his father was Guglielmo Loy-Donà, a lawyer issue from a distinguished Sardinian-Venetian family, and his mother was the noblewoman Donna Anna Sanjust of the Marquesses of Neoneli. Rosetta Loy, an Italian novelist, is his sister-in-law.

Filmography

• 1995Rome, November 12, 1994 — Director
• A che punto è la notte — Director
• 1993Package, Double Package and Counterpackage — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1990Gioco di società — Director, Writer
• 1989Scugnizzi — Director, Screenplay
• 1985My Friends Act III — Director, Screenplay
• 1984Sabatoventiquattromarzo — Director
• 1984Where's Picone? — Director, Screenplay
• 1982Heads I Win, Tails You Lose — Director, Screenplay
• 1981Disobedience — Il professore
• 1980Café Express — Screenplay, Director, Story
• 1977Three Tigers Against Three Tigers — se stesso
• 1976Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen — Director, Story
• 1976Keep It To Yourself! — Director
• 1976Strange Occasion — Director
• 1974I'll Fix America and Be Right Back — Director, Screenplay
• 1972Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi — DC politician
• 1971Fantasia Among the Squares — Dr. Severance
• 1971Troubleshooters — Charles Varèse
• 1971Why — Director
• 1970Open Letter to the Evening News
• 1970Operation Snafu — Director
• Il Tappabuchi
• 1967The Head of the Family — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1965Made in Italy — Story, Screenplay, Director
• 1964Beautiful Families — Umberto
• 1962The Four Days of Naples — Screenplay, Director, Story
• 1961A Day for Lionhearts — Screenplay, Director, Story
• 1959Fiasco in Milan — Director, Screenplay
• 1959The Thieves — Screenplay, Story
• 1958Il marito — Director, Screenplay
• 1957Parola di ladro — Story, Screenplay, Director
• 1955Girls of Today — First Assistant Director
• 1954House of Ricordi — First Assistant Director
• 1954Maddalena — Assistant Director
• 1954Modern Virgin — First Assistant Director
• 1953Cavalcade of Song — Assistant Director
• 1953Easy Years — First Assistant Director
• 1953Viva il cinema — First Assistant Director
• 1953We, the Women — Assistant Director
• 1952Appointment for Murder — First Assistant Director
• 1952Half a Century of Song — Assistant Director
• 1952Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi — First Assistant Director
• 1952The City Stands Trial — First Assistant Director

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1994The True Life of Antonio H. — Self
• 1965Complexes — Self (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone")