Ugo TognazziFilmography

Born:: March 23, 1922 in Cremona, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Onetime accountant Ugo Tognazzi became stagestruck while appearing in amateur theatricals in his hometown of Cremona. Entering films in 1950, Tognazzi became a star in the 1960s by virtue of his appearances in the cynical comedies of director Marco Ferreri. He threw caution (and his image) to the...Read More

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The Battle of the Three Kings

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Massimo Ghini, Ugo Tognazzi, F. Murray Abraham, Sergei Bondarchuk, Claudia Cardinale, Fernando Rey, Oleg Federov

1990
Tolerance

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Rupert Everett, Anne Brochet, Marc de Jonge, Catherine Samie

Synopsis: In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and serve as something like museum exhibits for the amusement of Read More

1989
I Giorni Del Commissario Ambrosio

10/14/88
Ultimo Momento

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Lino Capolicchio, Diego Abatantuono, Elena Sofia Ricci, Nik Novecento

Synopsis: In this uneven drama, Walter Ferrari (Ugo Tognazzi) is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo (Lino Capolicchio). He overcomes his feelings of bitterness in order to help his former club win the big game, but his relationship with the team and his Read More

10/8/87
La Cage Aux Folles 3: The Wedding

Actors: Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Galabru, Antonella Interlenghi, Saverio Vallone, Benny Luke, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault go through their well-worn passes in this third sequel to their international hit La Cage aux Folles. In La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding the element of Woman is introduced to the carefree world of the middle-aged gay couple of Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault Read More

2/14/86
The Yiddish Connection

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Ugo Tognazzi, André Dussollier, Vincent Lindon, Charlie Chemouni

Synopsis: Charles Aznavour and Ugo Tognazzi appear in this comedy about two Jewish merchants in need of cash. They team up with a Seminarian (Andre Dussolier) whose talents lie in opening safes and praying to God for assistance, and they plan one great robbery that will get everyone out of debt. Some Read More

1986
Amici Miei Atto 3

12/19/85
Le Bon Roi Dagobert

Actors: Coluche, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Carole Bouquet, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: In this low-brow satire, French comedian Coluche exploits his talents for comic vulgarity in his role as the 10th-century King Dagobert I. The king's intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to Read More

1984
Scherzo del Destino in Agguate Dietro l'Angolo Come un Brigante da Strada

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Piera Degli Esposti, Gastone Moschin, Roberto Herlitzka, Renzo Montagnani

Synopsis: In an irreverent send up of politicians and feminists and others, director and co-writer Lina Wertmuller has a Minister of the Interior locked inside his impermeable luxury car with only his broken computer to keep him company. Unfortunately, this accident happens at the villa of a conservative Read More

9/29/83
Amici Miei, Atto 2

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi, Gastone Moschin, Renzo Montagnani

Synopsis: In a series of vignettes that serve as a sequel to Amici Miei, director Mario Monicelli brings back several of his stars from the earlier movie to continue their antics in Florence, home of the friends of the title. All five are (or in some cases, were) close companions and have a penchant for Read More

12/22/82
La Tragedia di un Uomo Ridicolo

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante, Victor Cavallo, Ricardo Tognazzi

Synopsis: After his son disappears, an Italian cheese manufacturer is threatened by political terrorists who will supposedly kill the son if he does not pay a large ransom. Unsure if they really have his son and if the son is still alive, he has to decide if he should or should not sell his business to Read More

10/1/81
Sunday Lovers

Actors: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Robert Webber, Catherine Salviat, Gene Wilder, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro) finds a businessman (Lino Ventura) trying to Read More

10/31/80
La Terrazza

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards Read More

2/8/80
La Cage Aux Folles II

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Marcel Bozzuffi, Gianni Frisoni, Mark Bodin, Paola Borboni, Giovanni Vettorazzo

Synopsis: Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault), the internationally popular homosexual couple from La Cage Aux Folles, return in this sequel directed by Edouard Molinaro. In this go-round, Renato and Albin find themselves innocent victims of an espionage ring and become involved with killers Read More

1980
L'Ingorgo

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1/12/79
Dove Vai in Vacanza?

Crew: Director

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Paolo Villaggio, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: In this anthology made up of three shorter comedies, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio and Alberto Sordi each bring their own special brand of humor to the screen. In "Saro Tutta Per Te" (I Will Be All Yours), Tognazzi is Enrico, a dentist who has agreed to vacation with his ex-wife at her lover's Read More

12/21/78
Primo Amore

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Caterina Boratto, Mario del Monaco

Synopsis: Villa Serena is a retirement home for aging theatrical and vaudeville performers in this film, which stars Ugo Tognazzi as its newest inmate, Picchio, a former comedy great. There, he meets and falls in love with the lovely young attendant Renata (Ornella Muti), and goes off with her to Rome for Read More

9/8/78
La Mazzetta

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Stoppa, Marisa Laurito

Synopsis: Nothing in his background has given Saso Iovine (Nino Manfredi) any preparation for the sticky situations he encounters when he is hired by the crooked building contractor Don Michele to find his daughter Giulia, and some important (and legally damaging) documents she stole from him before running Read More

3/17/78
Viva Italia

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Orietta Berti

Synopsis: This Italian black comedy is comprised of nine short stories all related to the theme that most men are selfish cads. At the 1978 Oscars, the film was nominated for Best Foreign film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
La Cage Aux Folles

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Claire Maurier, Remi Laurent

Synopsis: An international comedy sensation based on a successful French stage play, La Cage aux Folles depicts the farcical chaos that results when a gay man attempts to pose as straight for the benefit of his son's future in-laws. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) owns a popular nightclub and is the long-time lover Read More

1978
I Nuovi Mostri

12/22/77
Il Gatto

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato, Michel Galabru, Dalila di Lazzaro

Synopsis: Amedeo and Ofelia (Ugo Tognazzi and Mariangela Melato) own an old, fairly unprofitable apartment house in Rome. Someone has offered to buy the property for redevelopment for a lot of money, but only if the building has no tenants. Since six of its apartments are currently in use, Amedio and Ofelia Read More

12/16/77
Il Casotto

Actors: Jodie Foster, Paolo Stoppa, Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato

Synopsis: This farce features Jodi Foster, Catherine Deneuve, and Ugo Tognazzi. Tersina (Foster) is a pregnant teen whose parents want her married, pronto. Cerquette (Tognazzi) is an insurance man who wears a chastity belt to keep him from ravishing the two women he desires. A pair of bachelors liven up the Read More

10/28/77
La Stanza Del Vescovo

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis: In this drama, Temistocle Orimbelli (Ugo Tognazzi) is a middle-aged man with a profound appreciation for womankind -- an appreciation that does not extend to Cleofe (Garbiella Giacobbe) his dried up old shrew of a wife. He is much taken with the charms of his sister-in-law Matilde (Ornella Muti) Read More

3/18/77
Signore e Signori Buonanotte

Synopsis: In this episodic anthology, written and directed by assorted Italian filmmakers, the political and social aspects of Italian life are chronicled. In one satirical episode, The Bomb, a bogus bomb threat at a police headquarters gradually balloons into a real terrorist plot culminating with the Read More

10/28/76
Cattivi Pensieri

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this drama an Italian lawyer comes back home to a real surprise concealed in his closet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

10/26/76
L'Anatra all'Arancia

Actors: Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Barbara Bouchet, John Richardson

Synopsis: The English-language title for the Italian L'Anatra All'arancia was Duck in Orange Sauce. Though Ugo (Ugo Tognazzi) is comfortably married to Lisa (Monica Vitti), he nonetheless takes up with pretty (and fetchingly underdressed) American Patty (Barbara Bouchet). In retalitaiton, Lisa begins an Read More

12/20/75
Amici Miei

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Gastone Moschin, Adolfo Celi, Duilio del Prete

Synopsis: The famed Italian film director Pietro Germi (his sharply observant and satirical films include The Immoralist, and Divorce Italian Style) began work on this comedy, but died before he could do more than write the screenplay. However, he lived long enough to choose Mario Monicelli as his Read More

8/15/75
Le Faille

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf, Adriana Asti, Dimos Starenios

Synopsis: This international collaboration has five unrelated titles in four languages, and includes filmmakers and stars from France, Germany, Italy and Greece. It is set in the modern period in Greece, during that time known as "the rule of the Colonels." The story concerns the cat-and-mouse police Read More

6/18/75
Romanzo Popolare

Actors: Ornella Muti, Michele Placido, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Northern Italian Giulio (Ugo Tognazzi) thought himself very broad-minded about things like marital fidelity until he married a much younger woman (Ornella Muti). Now he suffers the beginning pangs of jealousy when he and his wife become friends with young Giovanni (Michele Placido), a Sicilian who Read More

10/29/74
Claretta and Ben

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Bernadette Lafont, Franco Fabrizi, Gigi Ballista

Synopsis: In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about the life and love between Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petracci, his mistress. When his show travels to Italy it meets with a very negative response from the local Read More

4/13/74
Don't Touch the White Woman

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain General George Armstrong Custer. Richard Nixon is the American president, but everyone is costumed appropriately for the previous century. Buffalo Bill (Michel Piccoli), the Read More

1/23/74
La Proprieta Non E Piu un Furto

Actors: Flavio Bucci, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Italian Director Elio Petri, best known for his film Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion, here tells a complicated tale about a bank clerk who is literally allergic to money. Not only that, the clerk (Flavio Bucci) doesn't like the effect money has on people. For some reason, he steals Read More

10/3/73
La Grande Bouffe

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life Read More

5/17/73
Vogliamo I Colonnelli

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: This Italian political satire explores a fictional attempted military/right-wing takeover of Italy. Grifondi (Ugo Tognazzi) is the main plotter in this scheme, but he also has the support of the police and the military. There was another, more sinister group waiting for just such an event, and Read More

1973
The Master and Margaret

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: This strident Yugoslavian/Italian film is a very uneven adaptation of a small portion of the famous and much-loved whimsical novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulghakov. It attempts to deal only with the Moscow portion of the novel. Even so, it was a brave attempt to film the unfilmable Read More

9/8/72
L'Udienza

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Alain Cuny, Vittorio Gassman, Enzo Jannacci, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal audience with the Pope. Detailing Amedeo's battle with officious Vatican bureaucrats and bungling attempts to catch the Pope off-guard, the film rarely rises to the level Read More

3/31/72
Questa Specie D'Amore

Actors: Jean Seberg, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Written and directed by Italian filmmaker Alberto Bevilacqua, Questa Specie D'Amore (This Kind of Love) illustrates the difficulties one runs into when one attempts detached intellectualism. Ugo Tognazzi plays the son of a 1930s-era anti-fascist (also played by Tognazzi) who had suffered mightily Read More

2/10/72
In Nome Del Popolo Italiano

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: In Nome Del Popolo Italiano (In the Name of the Italian Pope) represents the darker edge of Italian filmmaker Dino Risi's satiric sensibilities. Ugo Tognazzi stars as the magistrate of a prosperous Italian community. Completely incorruptible, Tognazzi goes after a crooked industrialist, played by Vittorio Gassman Read More

12/15/71
Le Chat

Actors: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Paul Bonifas

Synopsis: A Georges Simenon novel was the basis for the French Le Chat. Not much happens in the way of plot, nor are many words of dialogue spoken; the character relationships (or lack of same) are the focal point here. Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret, long married, plainly despise one another. Rather than Read More

4/24/71
La Califfa

Actors: Romy Schneider, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Here the director adapts his own novel about Mira (Romy Schneider), a firebrand of a woman, who moves from being a ferocious labor organizer to being the mistress of her town's factory owner (Ugo Tognazzi). Labor negotiations provide a background for their brief but devastating romantic affair. Read More

12/31/70
Venga a Prendere Il Caffe Da Noi

Actors: Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Milena Vukotic, Jean-Jacques Fourgeaud

Synopsis: Emerenziano (Ugo Tognazzi) is the middle aged tax inspector looking for a rich woman to keep from working and provide him with food and sex. He travels to northern Italy where he is taken in by three maiden sisters of less than average beauty. He marries one sister and takes the other two as Read More

9/22/70
Cuori Solitari

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Senta Berger, Gianna Serra, Silvano Tranquilli

Synopsis: Stefano (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife Giovanna (Senta Berger) are tempted to shed their sexual inhibitions when they witness a couple making love atop the Eiffel Tower. He places an ad in a lonely hearts column, but the women he dreams about all seem to be hideous creatures. The swinging couple take Read More

1/22/70
Que Fais Tu Grande Folle

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Caprioli, Jenny Tamburi, Maurice Ronet

1970
Nell'Anno Del Signore

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein, Renaud Verley

Synopsis: Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to rise up against the Pope. Cornacchia (Nino Manfredi) is the politician who helps the rebel outlaws Montanari (Robert Hossein) and Targhini (Renaud Verley). Martial law is Read More

10/24/69
Il Commisario Pepe

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Gaetano Cimarosa, Veronique Vendell

Synopsis: Pepe (Ugo Tognazzi) is the progressive chief of police in a small Italian town. Using his brains instead of his gun, his investigations net far more results than the traditional cops. Most of his inquiries involve arresting prostitutes and orgy organizers and halting gay and Lesbian lechers from Read More

9/24/69
Porcile

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Julian (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is the son of German industrialist Klotz (Alberto Lionello) who seeks to go into business with the former Nazi Herdhitze (Ugo Tognazzi). Herdhitze had spent most of World War II collecting human skulls for experiments with brain matter. As a protest, Julian refuses to Read More

8/29/69
La Bambolona

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Lilla Brignone, Roy Bosier

Synopsis: A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a 17-year-old student for his next amorous conquest. He meets with her parents, an economically troubled couple who soon give their consent for the couple to date. Using an engagement ring as an enticing lure to initiate Read More

12/21/68
Sissignore

Crew: Director

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Maria Grazia Buccella, Gastone Moschin, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: This situation comedy finds a chauffeur taking the rap for his wealthy industrialist boss for a traffic accident. To add injury to insult, the driver discovers on his wedding night that he is married to his boss' mistress as well. Oscar (Ugo Tognazzi) is the little man caught in a world of Read More

11/14/68
Barbarella

Actors: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, David Hemmings, Joan Greenwood, Maria Theresa Orsini, Catherine Chevallier, Marie Therese Chevallier

Synopsis: A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up. Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic Read More

10/18/68
Straziami, Ma Di Baci Saziami

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Pamela Tiffin, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: A romance between a young woman factory worker and a barber is stopped when her parents raise protests over her relationship with the man. When rumors of the romance run rampant in the small town, she leaves for Rome. She takes a job as an assistant to a deaf-mute tailor and eventually accepts his Read More

10/4/68
The Bandits of "Fra Diavolo"

1968
L'Uomo dei Cinque Palloni

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak

Synopsis: Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting. His principle romantic interest in this feature is played by Catherine Spaak. The majority of the film seems to come from previous efforts from 1964 and 1965 Read More

1968
Jeux D'Adultes

Actors: Leslie Caron, Nino Manfredi, Claudine Auger, Ugo Tognazzi

1968
L'Harem

Synopsis: This satirical comedy illustrates that women are just as likely to succumb to the pleasures of the flesh as their male counterparts. Carol Baker enjoys a series of unashamed romantic romps with three different men. She tells her story to a homosexual male friend and a six-month-old cheetah when Read More

10/6/67
Il Padre Di Famiglia

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Leslie Caron, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Head of the Family (IL Padre de Famiglia) is a sparse seriocomic effort directed and co-written by Italian documentary filmmaker Nanni Loy. When his wife Leslie Caron announces she is pregnant, Nino Manfredi is at first overjoyed. His delight dwindles into quiet desperation as his little family Read More

9/29/67
Opiate '67

Synopsis: Fifteen "monsters of modern Rome" are presented in this Italian episodic drama. Each of these "monsters" is highly misanthropic and nasty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Il Fischio Al Naso

Crew: Director

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Tina Louise, Olga Villi, Alicia Brandt, Franca Bettoja

Synopsis: In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed Read More

1967
L'Immorale

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Gigi Ballista

Synopsis: A philandering violinist must witness the consequences of his actions in this Italian comedy. Not only does the concert violinist have a wife and kids, he also has two mistresses, all of whom he dearly loves. Whenever he goes on tour, he is sure to give them all a loving call. Just as his newest Read More

1967
A Very Handy Man

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Pierre Brasseur, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: In this Italian bedroom farce, a humble village peasant has managed to remain a bachelor despite the fact that he has fathered numerous illegitimate children. The trouble begins when he finds himself entangled in a fight over water rights. Though others attempt to blame him, the clever fellow Read More

1966
Una Questione D'onore

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Bernard Blier, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis: In this offbeat black comedy, Efisio Ugo Tognazzi is smuggled into Sardinia to kill a man for his insulting remarks about another family. While he is with his wife in Milan, the intended victim is killed by another man and Efisio gets credit for the hit. When his wife becomes pregnant, rumors in Read More

1966
Menage All'Italiana

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Anna Moffo, Dalida

Synopsis: Alfredo (Ugo Tognazzi) is a traveling salesman who enjoys his job because he can continue his many amorous adventures. Soon he is overcome with the consequences of his actions and feels the pressure of too many paramours. Alfredo chooses a way out by assuming the identity of a man who has recently Read More

1966
Io la Conoscevo Bene

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Robert Hoffman, Jean-Claude Brialy, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big city in this somber moral drama. She has a series of affairs that are just for fun, but she becomes depressed when she desperately looks for a more meaningful relationship. Read More

12/1/65
Les Femmes Américaines

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Rhonda Fleming, Graziella Granata, Juliet Prowse, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: Ugo Tagnazzi and Rhonda Fleming co-star in this situation comedy that spoofs the lifestyles of wealthy American women. Ricardo (Tognazzi) is a teacher who accompanies an American businessman to act as an interpreter. Soon he is off on a series of adventures that brings him into the jet-set social Read More

1965
Operation Idiot

1965
Il Magnifico Cornuto

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Michéle Girardon, Philippe Nicaud, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman, inordinately proud of his hyperactive libido. Claudia Cardinale is his sexy wife, which makes one wonder why Tognazzi would ever want to stray. Be that as it may, Cardinale Read More

10/21/64
La Donna Scimmia

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Like The Elephant Man, The Ape Woman (original Italian title: La Donna Scimmia) is based on the real-life exploitation of a deformed human being. Ugo Tognazzi stars as a charming ne'er-do-well who happens upon young Annie Girardot, who outside of the fact that she is covered with hair from head to Read More

1/29/64
Liola

1/23/64
Alta Infedeltà

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Fulvia Franco, Monica Vitti, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: In this comedy anthology, the sex-capades of several Italian couples are chronicled. In "The Scandal," a dull and insensitive husband is unaware that his lonely wife has been flirting with a young buck at a vacation resort. When the husband finally finds out, he gets jealous and the marriage is Read More

1/22/64
Controsesso

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Renzo Marignano, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: The Italians continue their penchant for gang-directed features in this sexploitation comedy. Part one is entitled "Cocaine On Sunday" in which a husband (Nino Manfredi) and wife (Annamaria Ferrero) start snorting the stuff after the friend who owned the bottle is arrested. In part two, Ugo Tognazzi Read More

1964
I Fuorilegge Del Matrimonio

12/3/63
I Mostri

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: This two hour film contains no less than twenty different vignettes. Traffic jams, a father passing on to his son the deceitful ways to survive everyday life, punch drunk ex-fighters, exploitation of a blind man are among the many stories. Vittorio Gassmann and Ugo Tognazzi lead the cast of actors Read More

10/26/63
Ape Regina

Actors: Marina Vlady, Ugo Tognazzi, Riccardo Fellini, Walter Giller

Synopsis: In this Italian sex comedy, a middle-aged car dealer marries a young girl and gets more than he bargained for. She is obsessed with getting pregnant pronto. To this end, she keeps him in bed all the time. The poor man simply cannot keep up with her demands. He even tries a series of hormone shots. Read More

4/7/63
Le Ore dell'Amore

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Umberto D'Orsi, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two long-time lovers finally decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately, they find the mundane realities of marriage oppressive. They miss the thrill of courtship, and suddenly all those cute little quirks of theirs have turned into annoying habits. They get a divorce and go Read More

3/1/63
RoGoPaG

Actors: Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Marc Bory, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Orson Welles, Michel Delahaye, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: RoGoPaG is an omnibus of short films by Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti and Jean- Luc Godard. Each episode is introduced by a quotation from the Bible which the episode illustrates with a fiction of contemporary life. Rossellini's film, "Illibatezza" ("Virginity"), is the Read More

2/19/63
La Marcia Su Roma

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Comedian Ugo Tognazzi as Umberto and Vittorio Gassmann as Domenico are featured in this comedy-drama about the 1920 march to Rome that saw the beginning of fascism in Italy. As the duo make their way to the capital along with many others, several misadventures highlight the trip, providing Read More

1963
La Voglia Matta

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Catherine Spaak, Gianni Garko, Beatrice Altariba

Synopsis: Crazy Desire (La Voglia Matta) stars Ugo Tognazzi as a middle-aged Italian businessman on a cross country motor trip. He comes across a group of rambunctious teenagers, including sexy Catherine Spaak. Infatuated by the girl, Tognazzi allows Spaak to deplete his pocketbook to pay for a wild seaside Read More

3/15/62
Una Domenica d'Estate

Actors: Anna Maria Ferrero, Eddie Bracken, Ulla Jacobsson, Karin Baal, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: A light frolic at the beach with sun and sex both foremost on the scene, this standard comedy by director Giulio Petroni is that much better for the comic work of Ugo Tognazzi and Raimondo Vianello as Benito and Adolfo, two undertakers who enjoy a bit of fun at the beach before they have to go in Read More

1962
Il Federale

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Georges Wilson, Mireille Granelli, Stefania Sandrelli, Gianrico Tedeschi

Synopsis: The Fascist (Il Federale) is a comedy set in 1944 Italy. Dedicated fascist Ugo Tognazzi is sent to capture anti-Mussolini professor Georges Wilson. He accomplishes his mission, but both captor and captive have a hard time getting home. After numerous comic misadventures in Tognazzi's motorcycle Read More

8/5/61
Psycosissimo

Synopsis: In this Italian comedy, three unemployed actors are rehearsing for a crime scene in their boarding house unaware that they are being watched by a nosy neighbor who is convinced that they are professional assassins. He offers them money to kill his philandering wife, and the hungry thespians agree Read More

2/11/61
Femmine Di Lusso

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a ship load of the rich and horny embark on a cruise aboard a millionaire's yacht. Included in the guest roster are a French businessman, his singing wife, his mistress, his wife's lover, a count whom the businessman hired to sleep with his wife so he can get a divorce Read More

12/22/60
La Cambiale

6/26/59
Totò nella luna

Synopsis: In this Italian sci-fi comedy, Toto is not a little dog, but an enormously popular comedian. The story centers on him as he and another embark upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

11/28/58
Le Confident De Ces Dames

Actors: Fernandel, Denise Grey, Ugo Tognazzi, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: Le Confident de ces Dames is a wacky though uneven comedy held up by the talents of Fernandel, playing a veterinarian. The vet's life is turned around completely when he finds himself assisting a woman who has been injured in an accident. He pulls the woman through the worst of the crisis and Read More

1958
Domenica E Sempre Domenica

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Lorella de Luca, Dorian Gray

Synopsis: Domenica e Sempre Domenica (Sunday is Always Sunday) is one of several late-1950s films to be based on a successful TV series. In this instance, the program is Il Muschiere, which in 1958 was one of the most popular attractions on Italy's RAI-TV network. Il Muschiere was a game show, in which Read More

1958
Bertoldo, Bertoldino E...Cacasenno

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Maurizio Nichetti, Lello Arena, Alberto Sordi, Annabella Schiavone

Synopsis: This enjoyable parody of classic fairytales about kingdoms and despotic kings is set in the year 1000 and stars Italy's Ugo Tognazzi in top form as Bertoldo, a crafty peasant who has to outwit the king (not necessarily a difficult job) and others in order to stay afloat and alive. Joining him for Read More

9/4/54
Patte De Velours

Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Silvana Pampanini, Ugo Tognazzi

1954
L'Amore in Città

Synopsis: Seven top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City). The film is divided into six separate episodes; the first of these, "Paid Love", is a straightforward study of prosititution written and directed by Carlo Lizzani. In the second, Michelangelo Antonioni Read More

1953

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