Gigi Ballista
Acting
Born December 1, 1918, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Gigi Ballista (1 December 1918 – 2 August 1980) was an Italian film and television actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1961 and 1980. Born in Florence, Ballista graduated in Law, then he started working as a PR consultant in the field of advertising and industrial documentaries. He debuted as an actor at a mature age in the early 1960s with some minor roles, but his breakout came in 1966 with a role of weight in Pietro Germi's The Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Following the critical and commercial success of the film, Ballista decided to pursue a professional career as an actor, and he became, mainly thanks to his characteristic hoarse and dysphonic voice, one of the most recognizable character actors in Italian cinema and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gigi Ballista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- 1981L'assistente sociale tutto pepe... — Bishop
- 1980I Hate Blondes — Psychiatrist
- 1979Liquirizia — Bartolozzi
- Il furto della gioconda — Poupardin
- 1978Midnight Express — Chief Judge
- 1977Mala, Love and Death — Carlo Alberto Giorgi
- 1977The Schoolmate — Girardi
- 1976Confessions of a Lady Cop — Questore Moretti
- 1976Horse Fever — Count Dallara
- 1976La madama — The Venetian
- 1976Salon Kitty — Nazi General
- 1976Un amore targato Forlì
- 1976Under the Sheets — Professor Ciotti
- 1975Cassiodorus Is the Hardest Praetorian — Cornelius da Mediolanum
- 1975Il fratello
- 1975The Family Vice — Conte Giosuè
- 1975The Noon Vigilante — direttore Filiberto Rossetti
- 1975The Sunday Woman — Vollero
- 1974Anima mia — Filippo Tornabuoni
- 1974Fischia Il Sesso — Mr. Lewis
- 1974Italian Sex — padre di Carletto
- 1974Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? — Gino's Friend
- 1974Poker in Bed — comm. Gervasio Caminata
- 1974Policewoman — avvocato
- 1974Stavisky... — Gaston Henriet
- 1974Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia — doctor
- 1973Blume in Love — Older Man
- 1973Giovannona Long-Thigh — Commendatore La Noce
- 1973Increase and Multiply — Dottore
- 1973The Lady Has Been Raped — Carini
- 19721001 Nights of Pleasure — Genie in Lamp
- 1972Black Turin — Marinotti
- 1972Blessed Are the Rich — Commendatore
- 1972Snow Job
- 1971Do Not Commit Adultery — Padre Spiridione
- 1971No One Will Notice You're Naked — Silvio Borelon
- 1971Roma bene — Vitozzi
- 1971Trastevere — Count
- 1970Jet Set Swingers — Borgognini
- 1970Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It — Il medico
- 1970Lady Caliph — Il principe industriale
- 1970The Secret of Santa Vittoria — Padre Polenta
- 1968Emma Hamilton — Cardinal Ruffo
- 1968Galileo — commissario domenicano
- Il Circolo Pickwick — Nathaniel Winkle
- 1968Sunstroke — Conte Malvezzi
- 1968Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses — Engineer
- 1967The Climax — Don Michele
- 1967The Dress Rehearsal
- 1967The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia — Aldo
- 1967The Seventh Floor — medico
- 1966How I Learned to Love Women — sir Archibald
- 1966Pleasant Nights — Luca di Montemerlo
- 1966The Birds, the Bees and the Italians — Giacinto Castellan
- 1966The Queens — The Priest ("Fata Marta")
- 1965Il morbidone
- 1964The Maniacs — Count at the Party (segment "l'hobby") (uncredited)