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Paolo Villaggio is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Italien born on 31 december 1932 at Genoa (Italie)
Paolo Villaggio ([ˈpaolo vilˈladdʒo]; 30 December 1932) is an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid Giandomenico Fracchia, and the obsequious and meek accountant Ugo Fantozzi, perhaps the favourite character in Italian comedy. He has written several books, usually of satirical character. He has also acted in dramatic roles, and has appeared in several movies.
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Paolo Villaggio ([ˈpaolo vilˈladdʒo]; 30 December 1932) is an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid Giandomenico Fracchia, and the obsequious and meek accountant Ugo Fantozzi, perhaps the favourite character in Italian comedy. He has written several books, usually of satirical character. He has also acted in dramatic roles, and has appeared in several movies.
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, 1h30Directed by Giulio Manfredonia
Genres Comedy
Actors Antonio Albanese, Paolo Villaggio, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Lunetta Savino, Lorenza Indovina
Roles Presidente del Consiglio
Rating52%
He became mayor of Marina di Sopra (a small village in Calabria): now the corrupt and ignorant fugitive entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque really wants to govern by doing nothing and relying on the support of his friends. But soon the police Cavallaro manages to trick him and send him to prison along with his entire gang, including the funny Pino "The Stranger" (as for the inhabitants of Calabria citizens of Apulia appear as non-EU citizens). In Veneto in Northern Italy, the manufacturer Rodolfo "Olfo" Favaretto (Antonio Albanese) dreamboat years, the project of unifying the Italian regions of Piedmont of Lombardia, the Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto by a long highway to the Austria. In fact, he, as a great secessionist what, he wants to bring Italy in the time of eighteenth century when Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated the entire North. One day he escort Venice in his bunker in a group of men blacks illegal dealing in the most inhuman in a speedboat guide for sea channels of the city, making them look like tourists not to be stopped by the police. When Rudolph arrives at his shipyard orders to illegal immigrants to get to work to build his "strap" (highway), but a black man falls from the roof of the yard and does not give any sign of life. Rodolfo to have no trouble really wants to put the body in a plastic bag and throw it in the channel, but the man is not dead and report it to the police. Frengo Stoppato (also Albanese) is a drug addict who lives happily in the Brazil until a call from the mother brings him back in Italy. It is a deception because the woman is arrested for forcing son to Catholic dune profound conversion, which should end with a beatification premature, i.e. before Frengo die, to be revered by all as a holy man.
A Matter of Heart (2009)
Directed by Francesca Archibugi
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Kim Rossi Stuart, Antonio Albanese, Micaela Ramazzotti, Alessia Fugardi, Francesca Inaudi, Paolo Villaggio
Roles Renato
Rating67%
Angelo, jeune carrossier romain, et son épouse Rossana attendent leur troisième enfant et vivent paisiblement dans le quartier du Pigneto à Rome. Un soir, leur vie va croiser celle d’Alberto, scénariste en vogue, dans le lieu le plus inattendu. Tous deux victimes d’un infarctus, Angelo et Alberto vont devenir amis en salle de réanimation, et à l’écoute du battement de leur cœurs, sceller leurs destins.
Generation 1000 Euros (2009)
Directed by Massimo Venier
Genres Comedy
Actors Carolina Crescentini, Valentina Lodovini, Paolo Villaggio, Francesca Inaudi, Roberto Citran
Roles Gelsomino il professore
Rating61%
A 30 ans, Matteo, diplômé en mathématiques, est employé au service marketing d'une entreprise. Son salaire ne lui permettant pas de payer seul son loyer, il partage son appartement avec son ami Francesco. Bientôt, sa vie tranquille s'effondre, et les catastrophes se succèdent, jusqu'à sa rencontre avec deux ravissantes jeunes femmes : la blonde Angelica, et la brune Béatrice, qui n'est autre que sa nouvelle colocataire.
Torno a vivere da solo (2008)
, 1h44Directed by Jerry Calà
Genres Comedy
Actors Jerry Calà, Tosca D'Aquino, Paolo Villaggio, Don Johnson, Éva Henger, Mara Venier
Roles Giacomo's father
Rating48%
In Milan, Giacomo is a good real estate agent. But he fights with his wife, why he does not stand his life, and wants to be the guy globetrotter of yesteryear. The two are separated, and Giacomo tries to change his life with Jessica. However, Giacomo has to deal with the problems of the life of a grown man, because he can no longer act like a kid.
The Apocalypse (2004)
, 1h36Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible
Actors Richard Harris, Bruce Payne, Benjamin Sadler, Vittoria Belvedere, Erol Sander, Ian Duncan
Roles Gaio
Rating61%
The film is set in 90 AD and concerns Jesus Christ's last surviving disciple, John of Patmos, and his writings and visions from the Apocalypse of John. Emperor Domitian has declared himself to be God and ruler over heaven and earth. The Christians do not recognize his divinity and face persecution from the Emperor. John has been imprisoned on Patmos, a mining prison, with many others. He writes out messages of his visions and sends them to the church in Asia. They send Irene to make sure John is alive and to confer with him in person. The movie depicts scenes from the Book of Revelation and links them to events happening to the church in Asia.
Heidi (2001)
, 2h15Directed by Markus Imboden
Origin Suisse
Themes Children's films
Actors Cornelia Gröschel, Paolo Villaggio, Marianne Denicourt, Josef Bierbichler, Robert Stadlober, Valentine Varela
Roles Großvater
Rating55%
Azzurro (2000)
Directed by Denis Rabaglia
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama
Actors Paolo Villaggio, Marie-Christine Barrault, Renato Scarpa, Jean-Luc Bideau, Julien Boisselier, Tom Novembre
Roles Giuseppe De Metrio
Rating68%
Giuseppe de Metrio a 75 ans, dont 30 ans passés à Genève comme contremaître. Aujourd'hui à la retraite dans les Pouilles, il s'occupe de sa petite-fille aveugle qui attend une opération qui lui redonnera la vue. Mais l'opération tarde à venir. Giuseppe retourne en Suisse pour chercher l'argent nécessaire à l'opération.
Teeth (2000)
, 1h36Directed by Gabriele Salvatores
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Anouk Grinberg, Tom Novembre, Anita Caprioli, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Paolo Villaggio, Barbara Cupisti
Roles Dr. Cagnano
Rating64%
Anotonio est né avec des dents très longues, ce qui lui vaut d'être rejeté pendant sa jeunesse.
Fantozzi 2000 - The Cloning (1999)
, 1h31Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Milena Vukotic, Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Stefano Antonucci, Corrado Olmi, Jacopo Sarno
Roles Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
Rating46%
Fantozzi finally died after his brief return to Earth from 1996. His superiors, exceeded the limits of human longevity, continue to manage and direct their institutions, taking many young people. However, new employees did not show very servile and humble like the old assumptions of previous generations. In fact, it is approaching the 21st century and young people are starting to be more aggressive and arrogant towards their managers who, finding himself in danger, decided to revive the "accountant doormat" Ugo Fantozzi. They do this by cloning and so the poor Fantozzi is forced again to continue a life of abuse and unfortunate vicissitudes. In particular his old Count Director Engineer Mascalzon. Grand. Croc. Lup. Mann. Farabutt. Pezz. di Merd. Duke Balabam (In Italy as in political offices, administrative and directorial are written in abbreviated form, Paolo Villaggio universe Fantozzi to label the directors in a negative way, as their crooks and thieves, gives them their titles and honors vulgar and scurrilous) forces him to follow her nephew Angelo which instead become bad and cheat like the father wants to do good. Fantozzi will do everything to follow the good cheer of pure still young, but the manager finds out and makes him flogged. Subsequent adventures in the tragic Fantozzi, together with Pina, mad as all Italians for the new distribution of lottery, betting various coupons. One day out the winning combination established by Fantozzi and so he immediately took the opportunity to buy a luxury medieval castle together with Miss Silvani, completely forgetting his wife Pina. At the end Fantozzi find that the board, given to the wife because the played, was not valid and will lose everything. After a tragic encounter with a male model loved madly by granddaughter Uga, since Fantozzi to follow in the disco had disguised himself as a teenager, ending up in bed with the robust and sensual young man who had exchanged Ugo for a real woman, the bumbling accountant prepares to celebrate the New Year of 2000. He plans to go on vacation on a tropical island with his wife, but the Contessa Serbelloni Mazzanti Come From the Sea (Vien Dal Mare) sends him an invitation to celebrate her birthday 143 years! Fantozzi is presented in the guise of Napoleon Bonaparte with his wife, but discovers that his namesake was the real guest of the party.
Fantozzi The Return (1996)
, 1h36Directed by Neri Parenti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotic, Gigi Reder, Anna Mazzamauro, Maurizio Mattioli, Antonio Allocca
Roles Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
Rating54%
Due to the lack of free places in Paradise, an angel sends Fantozzi back on earth thanks to an agreement under which he will resume his life as if he had never died. On earth, Fantozzi will have to face the puberty of his nephew Ughina, a deep depression caused by his andropause, the false pregnancy of Mrs. Silvani and a false accusation of corruption.
Camerieri (1995)
, 1h36Directed by Leone Pompucci
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Paolo Villaggio, Diego Abatantuono, Marco Messeri, Antonio Catania, Antonello Fassari, Regina Bianchi
Roles Loris Bianchi
Rating63%
In a restaurant six waiters are abandoned by their senior boss (Ciccio Ingrassia) who goes to the hospital for an illness. Salvatore Azzaro: the new owner, an old Roman hick, is going to give a cut to the staff and to renew the restaurant's decor; however he decides to make a bet. If the six waiters can serve him well during the evening celebration of his wedding anniversary, Salvatore Azzaro don't lay off them. But the task is difficult because the waiters hate each other and their customers to be served rather than human beings are utterly evil and bad manners.
Snowball (1995)
Directed by Maurizio Nichetti
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Political films
Actors Paolo Villaggio, Alessandro Haber, Leo Gullotta, Monica Bellucci, Anna Falchi, Angelo Orlando
Roles Billy Bolla
Rating46%
Dear Goddamned Friends (1994)
, 1h58Directed by Mario Monicelli
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Road movies
Actors Paolo Villaggio, Massimo Ceccherini, Antonella Ponziani, Beatrice Macola, Stefano Davanzati, Paolo Hendel
Roles Dieci
Rating66%
In 1944 in Tuscany, a group of boxers facing the disasters of the Second World War, during the intrusive presence of the Germans and the Americans, organizes rigged matches to make some money and travel from town to town, hoping to participate in local fairs. A young black American soldier, believed missing, and a girl who refused to marry accompany the ramshackle group.
Fantozzi in Heaven (1993)
, 1h32Directed by Neri Parenti
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Milena Vukotic, Paolo Villaggio, Gigi Reder, Anna Mazzamauro, Stefano Antonucci, Neri Parenti
Roles Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
Rating56%
Ugo Fantozzi, Filini, Fonelli, Calboni and Miss Silvani are no longer the valiant and unfortunate accountants and surveyors of a time and slowly begin to move towards the path that leads to death. In fact, everyone more or less have passed the "160 years" and are no longer as sprightly when they could cheat their directors pretending to work or serve as doormats. Fantozzi in particular, although he still feels as healthy as a fish, he learns, after a bad accident at the cemetery, you have only a week old. Ugo Fantozzi then starts to blow off steam and to do everything he wanted to achieve for years as a personal vendetta extreme adventures and adrenaline. But soon its entertainment you run out one day and so Fantozzi, evicted from home for a few weeks by cruel monkey daughter Mariangela with her chimp husband Bongo and daughter horrifying Uga, and moved into a garage furnished as a studio, looking in all ways of dealing with his fate with dignity. Pina, his wife notices it and decides to make him happy one last time to turn to a person who hated for years, Miss Silvani, courted in vain for years by poor Fantozzi. Promising to pay all its debts betting on horses, Pina convinces Silvani to spend a Christmas holiday with Fantozzi to Cortina d'Ampezzo then satisfy in bed. Miss Silvani, disgusted by the proposal, accept for the debts to be paid, and so the two lovebirds spend a brilliant, tragic holiday. At a time when the two should copulate, Fantozzi really wants to get to a mixture of the most powerful viagra u quaff cocktails nitroglycerin, sulfuric acid, bombs, and hot pepper. The embrace is so violent and powerful that Dolomites shake, the wolves run away scared and a dam is destroyed (who jokingly refers to orgasm of Fantozzi, in fact, the Silvani, wrong use of the subjunctive Italian as all characters Fantozzi universe always wrong, says, "Fantozzi, venghi!" – "Fantozzi, comes!!"). Now Miss Silvani truly loves his accountant, but Fantozzi had written a letter to his wife by declaring it to be a scum and not wanting to see any more, but at the last minute second thoughts and returned to Rome. Now I'm the last hours before Fantozzi dies and a priest approaches to encourage climbing stairs to the church of Lourdes, when it comes his wife Pina. The woman tells the husband that doctors had mistaken his plates with those of the priest who was calling, swearing that he collapsed while running away Fantozzi cheerful. Unfortunately comes centered by a truck and shipped under an Asphalt that the crushes he as a sheet of paper.
The Secret of the Old Woods (1993)
, 2h14Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Origin Italie
Genres Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Paolo Villaggio, Giulio Brogi, Omero Antonutti, Gianni Musy
Roles Col. Procolo
Rating67%
The general Sebastiano Procolo lives in a little village in the mountains boundless, in a small wooden house near a dense forest, called the "Old Woods". He is there on behalf of his nephew, owner of the reserve; however the general has the ambition to destroy all the trees in order to enrich. One night he discovers that the forest is inhabited by strange invisible creatures that whisper continually being released to resume again in the power of the ancient forest. Sebastiano initially don't understand the situation, but after as in a dream vision he realizes that these creatures have been imprisoned long ago by himself.