Gigi Ballista
ActingAlso Known As
Giggi Ballista, Luigi Ballista
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.
Movies
(54 total)
Midnight Express
as Chief Judge
Horse Fever
as Count Dallara
Salon Kitty
as Nazi General
Stavisky...
as Gaston Henriet
The Sunday Woman
as Vollero
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
as Giacinto Castellan
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
as Engineer
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Padre Polenta
Giovannona Long-Thigh
as Commendatore La Noce
Confessions of a Lady Cop
as Questore Moretti
Galileo
as commissario domenicano
The Schoolmate
as Girardi
Lady Caliph
as Il principe industriale
Policewoman
as avvocato
Blume in Love
as Older Man
Black Turin
as Marinotti
Poker in Bed
as comm. Gervasio Caminata
The Family Vice
as Conte Giosuè
The Queens
as The Priest ("Fata Marta")
TV Shows
(2 total)
Il Circolo Pickwick
as Nathaniel Winkle
Il furto della gioconda
as Poupardin