Ugo Tognazzi
Acting
Born: March 23, 1922 · Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
Died: October 27, 1990 (aged 68)
Highest Rated
Biography
Ottavio "Ugo" Tognazzi (23 March 1922 – 27 October 1990) was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most important faces of Italian comedy together with Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi. Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a travelling clerk for an insurance company. After his return to his native city in 1936, he worked in a cured meats production plant where he achieved the position of accountant. During World War II, he was inducted into the Army and returned home after the Armistice of 8 September 1943, and joined the Black Brigades for a while. His passion for theater and acting dates from his early years, and also during the conflict he organized shows for his fellow soldiers. In 1945, he moved to Milan, where he was enrolled in the theatrical company led by Wanda Osiris. A few years later, he formed his own successful musical revue company. In 1950, Tognazzi made his cinematic debut in The Cadets of Gascony directed by Mario Mattoli. The following year, he met Raimondo Vianello, with whom he formed a successful comedy duo for the new-born RAI TV (1954–1960). Their shows, sometimes containing satirical material, were among the first to be censored on Italian television. After the successful role in The Fascist (Il Federale) (1961), directed by Luciano Salce, Tognazzi became one of the most renowned characters of the so-called Commedia all'Italiana (Italian comedy style). He worked with all the main directors of Italian cinema, including Mario Monicelli (My Friends), Marco Ferreri (La Grande Bouffe), Carlo Lizzani (La vita agra), Dino Risi, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty), Ettore Scola, Alberto Lattuada, Nanni Loy, Pupi Avati and others. Tognazzi also directed some of his films, including the 1967 film The Seventh Floor. The film was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a well-known actor in Italy, and starred in several important international films, which brought him fame in other parts of the world. Roger Vadim cast Tognazzi as Mark Hand, the Catchman, in Barbarella (1968). He rescues Barbarella (Jane Fonda) from the biting dolls she encounters, and after her rescue, he requests payment by asking her to make love with him (the "old-fashioned" way, not the psycho-cardiopathic way of their future). In 1981, he won the Best Male Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. While he worked primarily in Italian cinema, Tognazzi is perhaps best remembered for his role as Renato Baldi, the gay owner of a St. Tropez nightclub, in the 1978 French comedy La Cage aux Folles which became the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S. Tognazzi had various relationships during his life, being married to actresses Margarete Robsahm and later Franca Bettoia. He had four children from three different women: his sons Ricky Tognazzi (b. 1955) and Gianmarco Tognazzi (b. 1967) are actors; another son, Thomas Robsahm (b. 1964), is a Norwegian film director and producer; his daughter, Maria Sole Tognazzi (b. 1971), is also a film director. ... Source: Article "Ugo Tognazzi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Barbarella
1968
My Friends
1975
La Grande Bouffe
1973
The Key
1983
La Cage aux Folles
1978
My Friends Act II
1982
The New Monsters
1977
My Friends Act III
1985
The Monsters
1963
I Knew Her Well
1965
Pigsty
1969
The Terrace
1980
Photos (4)
Movies (147)
The Key
drunk
First Love
Ugo
Barbarella
Mark Hand
La Grande Bouffe
Ugo
My Friends
Raffaello Mascetti
Pigsty
Herdhitze
My Friends Act III
Conte Mascetti
Beach House
Alfredo Cerquetti
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Ernesto
High Infidelity
Cesare
La Cage aux Folles
Renato Baldi
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Generale / Menelao Guardiaferri
The Monsters
The Father (segment "L'Educazione sentimentale") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Stefano (segment "Come un Padre") / Battacchi (segment "Il povero Soldato") / L'Onorevole (segment "La Giornata dell'Onorevole") / Dark Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Pilade Fioravanti (segment "Testimone volontario") / The Traffic Warden (segment "L'Agguato") / The Car Buyer (segment "Vernissage") / Spectator at the Cinema (segment "Scenda l'Oblio") / The Husband (segment "L'Oppio dei Popoli") / Guarnacci (segment "La nobile Arte")
The Bishop's Bedroom
Orimbelli
The Cat
Amedeo Pecoraro
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
I Knew Her Well
Gigi Baggini
The New Monsters
il marito/il cuoco/il figlio
La Cage aux Folles II
Renato Baldi
Lady Caliph
Annibale Doberdò
Complexes
Prof. Gildo Beozi
My Friends Act II
Il Conte Mascetti - Raffaello "Lello" Mascetti
Come Home and Meet My Wife
Giulio Blasetti
The Shortest Day
Pecoraio
La Cage aux Folles 3
Renato Baldi
The Magnificent Cuckold
Andrea Artusi
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Enrico (episodio "Sarò tutta per te")
I'm Photogenic
Ugo Tognazzi (uncredited)
Good King Dagobert
La pape Honorius et son sosie
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Togni (segment "Il pollo ruspante")
Crazy Desire
Ing. Antonio Berlinghieri
Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Oscar Pettini
Evil Thoughts
Mario Marani
Love, the Italian Way
Ugo Lemeni
In the Name of the Italian People
Mariano Bonifazi
The Conspirators
Cardinal Agostino Rivarola
Beach Types
Pasubio Giovinezza
A Matter of Honor
Efisio Mulas
Traffic Jam
Professor
Sunday Lovers
Armando (sketch 'Le carnet d'Armando')
The Conjugal Bed
Alfonso
Greetings and sons!
Mario fidanzato di Luciana
I baccanali di Tiberio
Primo
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Mitch
The Head of the Family
Remo
The Master and Margarita
Nikolaj Afanasijevic Maksudov 'Maestro'
The Career of a Chambermaid
Adelmo
Kiss the Other Sheik
Man With Car (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") (uncredited)
The Maids
Mario
5 Marines for 100 Girls
sergente Imparato
The Ape Woman
Antonio Semola
The Audience
Aureliano Diaz
Nenè
Barber "Baffo" (uncredited)
Weak Spot
Georgis
Baby Doll
Giulio Broggini
Duck in Orange Sauce
Livio
The Degenerates
Trimalchione
Drums of Fire
Carlo di Palma
The Joy of Living
Anarchist
The Terrace
Amedeo
Come Have Coffee with Us
Emerenziano Paronzini
I motorizzati
Achille Pestani
Arrivano i bersaglieri
Don Prospero
Unfaithfully Yours
Carlo Reani
A Very Handy Man
Liolà
Always on Sunday
Benito
La moglie è uguale per tutti
Ugo
Un dollaro di fifa
Alamo
Totò in the Moon
Achille Paoloni
March on Rome
Umberto Gavazza
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Umberto Ciceri
Arrivederci e grazie
Carlo
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Primo Spaggiari
The Payoff
Il Commissario Assenza
Petomaniac
Joseph Pujol
Controsesso
The professor (segment "Il professore")
Outlaws of Love
Vasco Timballo
La cambiale
Alfredo Balzarini
Follie d'estate
medico
Domenica è sempre domenica
Ugo
The Superwitness
Marino Bottecchia detto 'Mocassino'
I cadetti di Guascogna
Ugo Bossi
Una bruna indiavolata!
Carlo Soldi
The Hours of Love
Gianni
His Women
Stefano
Laughs Italian Style
1964
Pleased To See You Again
Mario Aldara
We Want the Colonels
On. Giuseppe Tritoni
Noi siamo 2 evasi
Bernardo Cesarotti
It's a Hard Life
Luciano Bianchi
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Giulio Ambrosio
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Gino Pistone
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
'Cavalier Mele'
The Fascist
Federale Primo Arcovazzi
Lonely Hearts
Stefano
The Wedding March
Avvocato / Michele / Frank / Igor Savoia
Our Husbands
Umberto Codegato
Genitori in blue-jeans
Renzino
Se vincessi cento milioni
Ugo (segment "Il principale")
Menage Italian Style
Carlo Vignola Federico Valdesi
Run for Your Wife
Riccardo
SuperTotò
1980
Pleasant Nights
Uguccione de' Tornaquinci
I milanesi a Napoli
Franco Baraldi
The Woman's Confidant
Cesar
The Sheriff
Colorado Joe
The Girl of a Thousand Months
Maurizio d'Alteni
L'Incantevole nemica
Colombo
The Man with the Balloons
Man With Car
Fatto su misura
Nathan
The Climax
Sergio Masini
The Baron's Mazurka
Barone Anteo Pellacani
Psycosissimo
Ugo Bertolazzi
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
Bertoldo
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Dottore
Property Is No Longer a Theft
The Butcher
Tolérance
Marmant
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
onorevole De Andreis
La Pica sul Pacifico
Roberto De Nobel
Yiddish Connection
Mosche
The Seventh Floor
Giuseppe Inzerna
Guardatele ma non toccatele
maresciallo la Notte
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Il professore, cliente della stireria (uncredited)
My Police Granny
Lucio
We Like It Cold
Ugo Bevilacqua
Singing Café
Se stesso
This Kind of Love
Federico / Federico's father
Police Chief Pepe
Commissario Antonio Pepe
Tu che ne dici?
Solitario
I magnifici tre
Domingo
I viaggiatori della sera
Orso Banti
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
Sergente Visicato
The Last Minute
Walter Ferroni
Fantasmi e ladri
Gaetano
Il principe fusto
Frate
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Ugo La Strizza
Non perdiamo la testa
Tony Cuccar
My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
Giacinto Floria
Fists, Girls and Sailors
Capo Campana
Il generale dorme in piedi
Col. Umberto Leone
La paura fa 90
Anastasio Lapin / Saverio Bompignac
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
Ugo Bitetti
Marinai, donne e guai
Capo Campana
Sua altezza ha detto: no!
Ronchi
Il pollo ruspante
Togni
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Alessio / Madame Royale
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1963
TV Shows (4)
Self / Appearances (16)
Ciné regards
Self · 3 eps
Sacrée soirée
Self · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 1 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 5 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 1 eps
Midi trente
Self · 1 eps
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Droit de Réponse
Self
Formula 1 - Speed fever
Self
Portrait Of My Father
Self (archive footage)
The Harem
Self (uncredited)
La voglia matta di vivere
Self (archive footage)
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Self - Actor (archive footage)
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Self (segment "La luna di miele")
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Self
Aces to the fore
Self
