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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 1, 1918
Died
August 2, 1980
Place of Birth
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Also Known As
- Giggi Ballista
- Luigi Ballista
Gigi Ballista
0.5 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
4.4
Bishop
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
1981
4.2
Psychiatrist
I Hate Blondes
1980
4.3
Bartolozzi
Liquirizia
1979
7.4
Chief Judge
Midnight Express
1978
0.0
Poupardin
Il furto della gioconda
1978
5.1
Girardi
The Schoolmate
1977
3.8
Carlo Alberto Giorgi
Mala, Love and Death
1977
0.0
Un amore targato Forlì
1976
7.4
Count Dallara
Horse Fever
1976
4.8
Professor Ciotti
Under the Sheets
1976
Credits
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
as Bishop
1981
4.4
I Hate Blondes
as Psychiatrist
1980
4.2
Liquirizia
as Bartolozzi
1979
4.3
Midnight Express
as Chief Judge
1978
7.4
Il furto della gioconda
as Poupardin
1978
0.0
The Schoolmate
as Girardi
1977
5.1
Mala, Love and Death
as Carlo Alberto Giorgi
1977
3.8
Un amore targato Forlì
1976
0.0
Horse Fever
as Count Dallara
1976
7.4
Under the Sheets
as Professor Ciotti
1976
4.8
Salon Kitty
as Nazi General
1976
5.5
Confessions of a Lady Cop
as Questore Moretti
1976
5.9
La madama
as The Venetian
1976
5.2
The Sunday Woman
as Vollero
1975
6.4
The Family Vice
as Conte Giosuè
1975
4.8
The Noon Vigilante
as direttore Filiberto Rossetti
1975
6.2
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Il fratello
1975
0.0
Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
as Cornelius da Mediolanum
1975
2.0
Policewoman
as avvocato
1974
5.6
Poker in Bed
as comm. Gervasio Caminata
1974
4.0
Italian Sex
as padre di Carletto
1974
4.4
Stavisky...
as Gaston Henriet
1974
5.9
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
as amico di Gino
1974
4.0
Fischia Il Sesso
as Mr. Lewis
1974
6.0
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
as Dottore
1974
7.3
Anima mia
as Filippo Tornabuoni
1974
0.0
The Lady Has Been Raped
as Carini
1973
4.7
Blume in Love
as Older Man
1973
5.7
Giovannona Long-Thigh
as Commendatore La Noce
1973
5.8
Increase and Multiply
as Dottore
1973
1.0
Blessed Are the Rich
as Commendatore
1972
6.5
Black Turin
as Marinotti
1972
5.2
1001 Nights of Pleasure
as Genie in Lamp
1972
4.0
Snow Job
1972
5.1
Trastevere
as Count
1971
6.8
Roma bene
as Vitozzi
1971
5.6
Do Not Commit Adultery
as Padre Spiridione
1971
4.3
No One Will Notice You're Naked
as Silvio Borelon
1971
4.9
Lady Caliph
as Il principe industriale
1970
5.3
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
as Il medico
1970
5.5
Una storia d'amore
as Borgognini
1970
2.7
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Padre Polenta
1970
6.9
Emma Hamilton
as Cardinal Ruffo
1968
4.0
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
as Engineer
1968
6.7
Galileo
as commissario domenicano
1968
6.3
Sunstroke
as Conte Malvezzi
1968
0.0
Il Circolo Pickwick
as Nathaniel Winkle
1968
0.0
The Seventh Floor
as medico
1967
5.8
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
as Aldo
1967
3.2
The Climax
as Don Michele
1967
5.9
Pleasant Nights
as Luca di Montemerlo
1966
6.3
How I Learned to Love Women
as sir Archibald
1966
4.4
The Queens
as The Priest ("Fata Marta")
1966
5.1
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
as Giacinto Castellan
1966
7.0
Il morbidone
1965
1.0
The Maniacs
as Count at the Party (segment "l'hobby") (uncredited)
1964
4.7