Paolo Villaggio (30 December 1932 — 3 July 2017) was an Italian actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid Giandomenico Fracchia, and the obsequious and meek accountant Ugo Fantozzi, perhaps the favourite character in Italian comedy. He wrote several books, usually of satirical character. He also acted in dramatic roles, and appeared in several movies.

Filmography

• Paolo villaggio — Creator
• 2018W gli sposi — Psychologist
• 2017La voce di Fantozzi — Sé stesso
• 2012Everything Everything Nothing Nothing — Presidente del Consiglio
• 201130 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
• 2009A Matter of Heart — Renato
• 2009Generazione 1000 euro — Gelsomino il professore
• 2008Torno a vivere da solo — Giacomo's father
• 2007Finalmente Natale — Cesare
• 2005GAS — Renato
• 2004Renzo e Lucia — Don Abbondio
• Renzo e Lucia — Don Abbondio
• 2004The Apocalypse — Gaio
• Carabinieri — Giovanni Benelli, Padre Paolo Benelli
• 2001Delirio di un povero vecchio — Writer, Director
• 2001Heidi — Großvater
• 2000Azzurro — Giuseppe De Metrio
• 2000Teeth — Dr. Cagnano
• 1999Fantozzi 2000 - The Cloning — Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
• 1998A Liar in Paradise — Gino
• 1997Banzai — Sergio Colombo
• 1996Fantozzi The Return — Rag. Ugo Fantozzi, Story, Screenplay
• 1995Camerieri — Loris Bianchi
• 1995I Don't Speak English — Sergio
• 1995Snowball — Billy Bolla
• 1994Dear Goddamned Friends — Dieci
• 1994In morte di Federico Fellini
• 1994The New Comics — Paolo
• 1993Fantozzi in Heaven — Rag. Ugo Fantozzi, Story, Screenplay
• 1993The Secret of the Old Woods — Col. Procolo
• 1992Ciao, Professore! — Marco Sperelli
• 1991The Comics 2 — Paolo
• 1990Fantozzi to the Rescue — Rag. Ugo Fantozzi, Story, Screenplay
• 1990The Comics — Paolo
• 1990The Voice of the Moon — Gonnella
• 1989I Won the New Year's Lottery — Paolo Ciottoli
• 1988Fantozzi Retires — Rag. Ugo Fantozzi, Story, Screenplay
• 1988The Big Fox — Ugo Maria Volpone
• 1987Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission — Paolo Casalotti
• 1987How Long Is the Adventure — Gianni Zappi
• Indietro tutta! — Se stesso
• 1987Rimini Rimini — Ermenegildo Morelli
• 1987School of Thieves 2 — Dalmazio Siraghi
• 1987Stuff for the Rich — Attilio Carbone (1° episodio)
• 1986Department Store — Detenuto Turati / Robot
• 1986School of Thieves — Dalmazio Siraghi
• 1986Super Fantozzi — Ugo Fantozzi, Story, Screenplay
• 1985Firefighters — Paolo Casalotti
• Sogni e bisogni — Orazio
• 1985Who's Afraid of Dracula? — Giandomenico Fracchia, Screenplay, Story
• 1984Tit for Tat — Gino Sciaccaluga
• 1983Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style — Leo Gavazzi, Story
• 1983Fantozzi Still Suffers — Rag. Ugo Fantozzi, Screenplay, Story
• 1983Two of a Kind — Ringhio / Il Geometra, Story, Screenplay
• 1982Forbidden Dreams — Paolo Coniglio
• 1981Fracchia The Human Beast — Giandomenico Fracchia / La Belva Umana, Screenplay
• 1981Il turno — Don Pepe Alletto
• Telepatria international ovvero niente paura siamo italiani — Cristoforo Colombo
• 1980Fantozzi Against the Wind — Rag. Ugo Fantozzi, Director, Screenplay, Novel
• 1980La locandiera — marchese di Forlipopoli
• 1980The Precarious Bank Teller — Rag. Arturo De Fanti
• 1979Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot — Dr. Jekyll / Mr Hyde
• 1978Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra — Della Spigola (2° episodio)
• 1978Professor Kranz german in Germany — Prof. Otto von Kranz
• 1978Quando c'era lui... caro lei! — Berretta
• 1978Where Are You Going on Holiday? — Arturo (episodio "Si Buana")
• 1977Il... Belpaese — Guido Belardinelli, Screenplay
• 1977Three Tigers Against Three Tigers — Avvocato Scorza
• Babau
• 1976Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen — Professor Schmidt / Presentatore quiz
• 1976Mr. Robinson — Robi, Co-Writer
• 1976Strange Occasion — Giobatta (episodio "Italian Superman")
• 1976The Second Tragic Fantozzi — Ugo Fantozzi, Screenplay, Novel
• 1975Fantozzi: White Collar Blues — Ugo Fantozzi, Screenplay, Novel
• Giandomenico Fracchia - Sogni proibiti di uno di noi — Giandomenico Fracchia, Creator
• 1975The Baron's Mazurka — Checco Coniglio
• 1975What's Your Sign? — Dante Bompazzi
• 1974Don't Touch the White Woman! — The CIA agent
• 1974I'll Fix America and Be Right Back — Giovanni Bonfiglio
• 1974To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday — Conte Fernando - Didino
• 1973Cake in the Sky
• 1972Blessed Are the Rich — Augusto
• 1972Carosello - Martini - Paolo Villaggio e i sogni proibiti - Barone Rosa
• 1972Carosello - Martini - Paolo Villaggio e i sogni proibiti - Il puglie
• 1972Carosello - Martini - Paolo Villaggio e i sogni proibiti - Sergente
• 1972What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? — Don Albino Moncalieri
• 1972Without Family — Agostino Antoniucci
• 1970Brancaleone at the Crusades — Thorz
• 1969Il Terribile Ispettore — Paolo De Angelis
• Il killer
• 1969In the Name of the Father — Eddy
• 1969You Are Always In My Mind — vigile Filini
• 1968Eat It — Volpi

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2024Mostruosamente Villaggio — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2021Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia — Self
• 2010Portrait Of My Father — Self
• 2010Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore — Self
• 2009L'uomo dalla bocca storta — Self
• 2006Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds — Self
• 2002The Magic of Fellini — Self
• Domenica In — Self
• Sanremo Music Festival — Self - Host