Ugo Tognazzi
Date of birth: 1922-03-23
Place of birth: Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ottavio Tognazzi
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.
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Lady Caliph
1970-12-31
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La Grande Bouffe
1973-05-16
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
La Cage aux Folles
1978-10-20
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My Friends
1975-10-24
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Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
1984-12-22
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La Cage aux Folles II
1980-12-10
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My Friends Act II
1982-12-22
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My Friends Act III
1985-06-06
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Barbarella
1968-10-10
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Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
1981-10-01
The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the ve
The Last Minute
1987-10-08
Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carl
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
1978-12-21
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The Ape Woman
1964-01-31
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The Bishop's Bedroom
1977-03-18
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Il pollo ruspante
1963-02-19
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Fists, Girls and Sailors
1961-11-17
Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enem
Good King Dagobert
1984-08-22
King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal ca
Come Home and Meet My Wife
1974-10-29
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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
1961-03-30
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The Monsters
1963-10-30
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The New Monsters
1977-12-15
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Petomaniac
1983-10-28
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Duck in Orange Sauce
1975-12-19
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly ac
The Fascist
1961-08-05
1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort a
The Conjugal Bed
1963-04-07
A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
Pigsty
1969-09-02
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is conde
We Want the Colonels
1973-03-02
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree an
The Master and Margarita
1972-07-15
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The Audience
1972-03-31
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the
Droit de Réponse
1981-12-12
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First Love
1978-11-10
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It's a Hard Life
1964-04-22
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Totò in the Moon
1958-11-28
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Controsesso
1964-11-30
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974-01-23
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically
Domenica è sempre domenica
1958-04-05
A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will kno
Traffic Jam
1979-01-12
A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more tha
Come Have Coffee with Us
1970-09-22
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Evil Thoughts
1976-10-26
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Beach House
1977-10-27
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La cambiale
1959-11-19
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March on Rome
1962-12-20
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Complexes
1965-08-15
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La Cage aux Folles 3
1985-11-20
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The Terrace
1980-02-08
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. T
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
1963-02-19
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Our Husbands
1966-08-21
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The Woman's Confidant
1959-06-20
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5 marines per 100 ragazze
1961-08-10
Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the gi
Police Chief Pepe
1969-09-24
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La voglia matta di vivere
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Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
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The Wedding March
1966-02-17
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The Joy of Living
1961-05-11
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I Mostri [Episodi Inediti]
1963-10-26
Unreleased episodes from "I Mostri" with Ugo Tognazzi as protagonist.
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1976-02-06
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Crazy Desire
1962-03-15
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The Baron's Mazurka
1975-01-22
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
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Sunday Lovers
1980-10-31
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His Women
1961-12-30
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The Magnificent Cuckold
1964-10-19
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Laughs Italian Style
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Noi siamo 2 evasi
1959-06-26
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The Sheriff
1959-08-15
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
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Pleasant Nights
1966-10-12
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The Climax
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Arrivederci e grazie
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The Payoff
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Baby Doll
1968-12-15
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The Head of the Family
1967-09-29
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Marinai, donne e guai
1958-11-06
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L'Incantevole nemica
1953-06-14
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The Superwitness
1971-03-16
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Dismissed on His Wedding Night
1968-11-14
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Psycosissimo
1961-02-11
Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.
I viaggiatori della sera
1979-10-26
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Days of Inspector Ambrosio
1988-10-20
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
The Hours of Love
1963-03-01
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Menage Italian Style
1965-12-22
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A Matter of Honor
1966-02-24
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This Kind of Love
1972-02-10
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The Conspirators
1969-10-24
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Lonely Hearts
1970-01-22
The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.
The Degenerates
1969-03-27
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp
The Maids
1959-06-14
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I magnifici tre
1961-11-10
Pablo, Domingo and Jose, three idiots, gunmen exchanged for large liberate a village in the republic
Un dollaro di fifa
1960-08-28
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The Key
1983-10-19
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Il generale dorme in piedi
1974-10-05
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Drums of Fire
1990-12-21
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La paura fa 90
1951-10-23
A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a d
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965-12-28
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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
1974-04-13
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
1966-10-31
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Portrait Of My Father
2010-10-27
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La Pica sul Pacifico
1959-04-24
Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is op
Property Is No Longer a Theft
1973-10-03
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I motorizzati
1962-11-30
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Love, the Italian Way
1960-12-22
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Fatto su misura
1985-02-01
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2021-12-16
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976-10-28
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Non perdiamo la testa
1959-04-16
A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Tolérance
1989-10-20
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Una bruna indiavolata!
1951-11-21
Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the tr
My Police Granny
1958-09-10
Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her la
I Knew Her Well
1965-12-01
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
1983-09-29
The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliam
Unfaithfully Yours
1982-05-04
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Outlaws of Love
1963-12-03
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The Girl of a Thousand Months
1961-11-05
A fashion designer rents his villa to a woman before leaving to go abroad. The daughter of the woman
Run for Your Wife
1965-04-29
Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a
The Harem
1967-10-06
A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
Singing Café
1953-12-18
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
Tu che ne dici?
1960-03-10
A Very Handy Man
1964-01-23
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I'm Photogenic
1980-03-21
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La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
1963-02-21
Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
We Like It Cold
1960-09-20
A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the allied army and the partisans fight th
I cadetti di Guascogna
1950-09-27
Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldi
Yiddish Connection
1986-08-27
Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.
The Man with the Balloons
1967-08-08
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Aces to the fore
1954-08-14
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High Infidelity
1964-01-22
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemm
Nenè
1977-09-21
In the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teenagers covertly discover new prohibited games.
Weak Spot
1975-01-01
During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978-09-15
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I baccanali di Tiberio
1960-01-15
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Sua altezza ha detto: no!
1953-12-01
Guardatele ma non toccatele
1959-06-27
An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the de
The Cat
1977-12-16
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In the Name of the Italian People
1971-12-18
An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides
Fantasmi e ladri
1959-02-12
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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959-03-18
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò.
Tipi da spiaggia
1959-11-12
Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
1968-10-04
When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become
Arrivano i bersaglieri
1980-10-29
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I milanesi a Napoli
1954-10-15
Some Neapolitans help a firm from Milan to establish two factories in Naples: one produces TV dinner
La moglie è uguale per tutti
1955-10-21
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary
Genitori in blue-jeans
1960-02-10
Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017-05-28
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Il principe fusto
1960-03-26
Pleased To See You Again
1976-01-01
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The Shortest Day
1963-02-14
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor
Follie d'estate
1963-11-27
Greetings and sons!
1951-09-27
Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are bro
Se vincessi cento milioni
1953-12-01
Always on Sunday
1962-03-10
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E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975-05-06
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The Seventh Floor
1967-08-06
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My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
1960-08-11
Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers
SuperTotò
1980-04-18
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