Ugo Tognazzi
Acting • Born 1922-03-23 – Died 1990-10-27
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.
Filmography
164 credits
Lady Caliph
Movie • 1970
Annibale Doberdò
La Grande Bouffe
Movie • 1973
Ugo
La Cage aux Folles
Movie • 1978
Renato Baldi
My Friends
Movie • 1975
Raffaello Mascetti
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
Movie • 1984
Bertoldo
La Cage aux Folles II
Movie • 1980
Renato Baldi
My Friends Act II
Movie • 1982
Il Conte Mascetti - Raffaello "Lello" Mascetti
My Friends Act III
Movie • 1985
Conte Mascetti
Barbarella
Movie • 1968
Mark Hand
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Movie • 1981
Primo Spaggiari
The Last Minute
Movie • 1987
Walter Ferroni
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Movie • 1978
Enrico (episodio "Sarò tutta per te")
The Ape Woman
Movie • 1964
Antonio Semola
The Bishop's Bedroom
Movie • 1977
Orimbelli
Il pollo ruspante
Movie • 1963
Togni
Fists, Girls and Sailors
Movie • 1961
Capo Campana
Good King Dagobert
Movie • 1984
La pape Honorius et son sosie
Come Home and Meet My Wife
Movie • 1974
Giulio Blasetti
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Movie • 1961
Ernesto
The New Monsters
Movie • 1977
il marito/il cuoco/il figlio
The Monsters
Movie • 1963
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")
Petomaniac
Movie • 1983
Joseph Pujol
Duck in Orange Sauce
Movie • 1975
Livio
The Fascist
Movie • 1961
Federale Primo Arcovazzi
The Conjugal Bed
Movie • 1963
Alfonso
Pigsty
Movie • 1969
Herdhitze
We Want the Colonels
Movie • 1973
On. Giuseppe Tritoni
The Master and Margarita
Movie • 1972
Nikolaj Afanasijevic Maksudov 'Maestro'
Droit de Réponse
Movie • 1981
Self
The Audience
Movie • 1972
Aureliano Diaz
First Love
Movie • 1978
Ugo
It's a Hard Life
Movie • 1964
Luciano Bianchi
Totò in the Moon
Movie • 1958
Achille Paoloni
Controsesso
Movie • 1964
The professor (segment "Il professore")
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Movie • 1974
Mitch
Domenica è sempre domenica
Movie • 1958
Ugo
Traffic Jam
Movie • 1979
Professor
Come Have Coffee with Us
Movie • 1970
Emerenziano Paronzini
Evil Thoughts
Movie • 1976
Mario Marani
Beach House
Movie • 1977
Alfredo Cerquetti
La cambiale
Movie • 1959
Alfredo Balzarini
March on Rome
Movie • 1962
Umberto Gavazza
Complexes
Movie • 1965
Prof. Gildo Beozi
La Cage aux Folles 3
Movie • 1985
Renato Baldi
The Terrace
Movie • 1980
Amedeo
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Movie • 1963
Togni (segment "Il pollo ruspante")
Our Husbands
Movie • 1966
Umberto Codegato
The Woman's Confidant
Movie • 1959
Cesar
5 marines per 100 ragazze
Movie • 1961
sergente Imparato
Police Chief Pepe
Movie • 1969
Commissario Antonio Pepe
La voglia matta di vivere
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Movie • 1970
Alessio / Madame Royale
The Wedding March
Movie • 1966
Avvocato / Michele / Frank / Igor Savoia
The Joy of Living
Movie • 1961
Anarchist
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I Mostri [Episodi Inediti]
Movie • 1963
The Career of a Chambermaid
Movie • 1976
Adelmo
Crazy Desire
Movie • 1962
Ing. Antonio Berlinghieri
The Baron's Mazurka
Movie • 1975
Barone Anteo Pellacani
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Movie • 1954
Dottore
Sunday Lovers
Movie • 1980
Armando (sketch 'Le carnet d'Armando')
His Women
Movie • 1961
Stefano
The Magnificent Cuckold
Movie • 1964
Andrea Artusi
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
Movie • 1962
Sergente Visicato
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
Movie • 1960
Ugo Bitetti
Noi siamo 2 evasi
Movie • 1959
Bernardo Cesarotti
Laughs Italian Style
Movie • 1964
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Movie • 1971
Ugo La Strizza
The Sheriff
Movie • 1959
Colorado Joe
Pleasant Nights
Movie • 1966
Uguccione de' Tornaquinci
The Climax
Movie • 1967
Sergio Masini
Arrivederci e grazie
Movie • 1988
Carlo
The Payoff
Movie • 1978
Il Commissario Assenza
Baby Doll
Movie • 1968
Giulio Broggini
The Head of the Family
Movie • 1967
Remo
Marinai, donne e guai
Movie • 1958
Capo Campana
L'Incantevole nemica
Movie • 1953
Colombo, l'adjoint du directeur de la fromagerie
The Superwitness
Movie • 1971
Marino Bottecchia detto 'Mocassino'
Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Movie • 1968
Oscar Pettini
Psycosissimo
Movie • 1961
Ugo Bertolazzi
I viaggiatori della sera
Movie • 1979
Orso Banti
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Movie • 1988
Giulio Ambrosio
The Hours of Love
Movie • 1963
Gianni
Menage Italian Style
Movie • 1965
Carlo Vignola Federico Valdesi
A Matter of Honor
Movie • 1966
Efisio Mulas
This Kind of Love
Movie • 1972
Federico / Federico's father
The Conspirators
Movie • 1969
Cardinal Agostino Rivarola
Lonely Hearts
Movie • 1970
Stefano
The Degenerates
Movie • 1969
Trimalchione
The Maids
Movie • 1959
Mario
I magnifici tre
Movie • 1961
Domingo
Un dollaro di fifa
Movie • 1960
Alamo
The Key
Movie • 1983
drunk
Il generale dorme in piedi
Movie • 1974
Col. Umberto Leone
Drums of Fire
Movie • 1990
Carlo di Palma
La paura fa 90
Movie • 1951
Anastasio Lapin / Saverio Bompignac
Kiss the Other Sheik
Movie • 1965
Man With Car (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") (uncredited)
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Movie • 1974
Gino Pistone
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Movie • 1966
'Cavalier Mele'
Portrait Of My Father
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
La Pica sul Pacifico
Movie • 1959
Roberto De Nobel
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Movie • 1973
The Butcher
I motorizzati
Movie • 1962
Achille Pestani
Love, the Italian Way
Movie • 1960
Ugo Lemeni
Fatto su misura
Movie • 1985
Nathan
We Are Cinema
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 1976
Generale / Menelao Guardiaferri
Non perdiamo la testa
Movie • 1959
Tony Cuccar
Tolérance
Movie • 1989
Marmant
Una bruna indiavolata!
Movie • 1951
Carlo Soldi
My Police Granny
Movie • 1958
Lucio
I Knew Her Well
Movie • 1965
Gigi Baggini
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
Movie • 1983
onorevole De Andreis
Unfaithfully Yours
Movie • 1982
Carlo Reani
Outlaws of Love
Movie • 1963
Vasco Timballo
The Girl of a Thousand Months
Movie • 1961
Maurizio d'Alteni
Run for Your Wife
Movie • 1965
Riccardo
The Harem
Movie • 1967
Self (uncredited)
Singing Café
Movie • 1953
Se stesso
Tu che ne dici?
Movie • 1960
Solitario
A Very Handy Man
Movie • 1964
Liolà
I'm Photogenic
Movie • 1980
Ugo Tognazzi (uncredited)
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Movie • 1963
Self (segment "La luna di miele")
We Like It Cold
Movie • 1960
Ugo Bevilacqua
I cadetti di Guascogna
Movie • 1950
Ugo Bossi
Yiddish Connection
Movie • 1986
Mosche
The Man with the Balloons
Movie • 1967
Man With Car
Aces to the fore
Movie • 1954
Self
High Infidelity
Movie • 1964
Cesare
Nenè
Movie • 1977
Barber "Baffo" (uncredited)
Weak Spot
Movie • 1975
Georgis
Formula 1 - Speed fever
Movie • 1978
Self
I baccanali di Tiberio
Movie • 1960
Primo
Sua altezza ha detto: no!
Movie • 1953
Ronchi
Guardatele ma non toccatele
Movie • 1959
maresciallo la Notte
The Cat
Movie • 1977
Amedeo Pecoraro
In the Name of the Italian People
Movie • 1971
Mariano Bonifazi
Fantasmi e ladri
Movie • 1959
Gaetano
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Movie • 1959
Il professore, cliente della stireria (uncredited)
Tipi da spiaggia
Movie • 1959
Pasubio Giovinezza
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Movie • 1968
Umberto Ciceri
Arrivano i bersaglieri
Movie • 1980
Don Prospero
I milanesi a Napoli
Movie • 1954
Franco Baraldi
La moglie è uguale per tutti
Movie • 1955
Ugo
Genitori in blue-jeans
Movie • 1960
Renzino
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Movie • 2017
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Il principe fusto
Movie • 1960
Frate
Pleased To See You Again
Movie • 1976
Mario Aldara
The Shortest Day
Movie • 1963
Pecoraio
Follie d'estate
Movie • 1963
medico
Greetings and sons!
Movie • 1951
Mario fidanzato di Luciana
Se vincessi cento milioni
Movie • 1953
Ugo (segment "Il principale")
Always on Sunday
Movie • 1962
Benito
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Movie • 1975
Self
The Seventh Floor
Movie • 1967
Giuseppe Inzerna
My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
Movie • 1960
Giacinto Floria
SuperTotò
Movie • 1980
FBI – Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore
TV • 1970
Francesco Bertolazzi
La via del successo
TV • 1958
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Sogni e bisogni
TV • 1985
Sig. De Amicis