7.5
7.5
Midnight Express
1978
as Chief Judge
Gigi Ballista
Acting
Born:December 1, 1918
Died:August 2, 1980(aged 61)
Birthplace:Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (51 movies)
7.3
7.3
Horse Fever
1976
as Count Dallara
7.3
7.3
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
1974
as Dottore
7.0
7.0
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
1966
as Giacinto Castellan
6.9
6.9
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970
as Padre Polenta
6.8
6.8
Trastevere
1971
as Count
6.7
6.7
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
1968
as Engineer
6.5
6.5
Blessed Are the Rich
1972
as Commendatore
6.4
6.4
The Sunday Woman
1975
as Vollero
6.3
6.3
Pleasant Nights
1966
as Luca di Montemerlo
6.2
6.2
The Noon Vigilante
1975
as direttore Filiberto Rossetti
6.2
6.2
Galileo
1968
as commissario domenicano
6.0
6.0
Fischia Il Sesso
1974
as Mr. Lewis
5.9
5.9
The Climax
1967
as Don Michele
5.9
5.9
Confessions of a Lady Cop
1976
as Questore Moretti
5.8
5.8
The Seventh Floor
1967
as medico
5.8
5.8
Giovannona Long-Thigh
1973
as Commendatore La Noce
5.7
5.7
Blume in Love
1973
as Older Man
5.6
5.6
Policewoman
1974
as avvocato
5.5
5.5
Salon Kitty
1976
as Nazi General
5.5
5.5
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
1970
as Il medico
5.3
5.3
Lady Caliph
1970
as Il principe industriale
5.2
5.2
La madama
1976
as The Venetian
5.2
5.2
Black Turin
1972
as Marinotti
5.1
5.1
The Queens
1966
as The Priest ("Fata Marta")
5.1
5.1
The Schoolmate
1977
as Girardi
4.9
4.9
No One Will Notice You're Naked
1971
as Silvio Borelon
4.8
4.8
Under the Sheets
1976
as Professor Ciotti
4.8
4.8
The Family Vice
1975
as Conte Giosuè
4.7
4.7
The Lady Has Been Raped
1973
as Carini
4.4
4.4
Italian Sex
1974
as padre di Carletto
4.4
4.4
How I Learned to Love Women
1966
as sir Archibald
4.4
4.4
Snow Job
1972
4.4
4.4
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
1981
as Bishop
4.3
4.3
Liquirizia
1979
as Bartolozzi
4.3
4.3
Do Not Commit Adultery
1971
as Padre Spiridione
4.2
4.2
I Hate Blondes
1980
as Psychiatrist
4.0
4.0
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
1974
as amico di Gino
4.0
4.0
Emma Hamilton
1968
as Cardinal Ruffo
4.0
4.0
Poker in Bed
1974
as comm. Gervasio Caminata
3.8
3.8
Mala, Love and Death
1977
as Carlo Alberto Giorgi
3.7
3.7
1001 Nights of Pleasure
1972
as Genie in Lamp
3.2
3.2
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
1967
as Aldo
2.7
2.7
Una storia d'amore
1970
as Borgognini
2.0
2.0
Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
1975
as Cornelius da Mediolanum
1.0
1.0
Increase and Multiply
1973
as Dottore
1.0
1.0
Il morbidone
1965
Il fratello
1975
Un amore targato Forlì
1976
Anima mia
1974
as Filippo Tornabuoni
Sunstroke
1968
as Conte Malvezzi
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