Biography
Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (2 November 1940 – 2 November 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, musician, singer and television presenter. After several stage works, in 1966 Proietti debuted both in cinema, in Pleasant Nights, and on television, in the TV series I grandi camaleonti. His first personal success came in 1971, when he replaced Domenico Modugno in the stage musical Alleluja brava gente by Garinei & Giovannini, starring alongside Renato Rascel. In 1974, after playing the role ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
2022
as Self
Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020

Speciale Ulisse: Viaggio senza ritorno
2022

We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

I Am Santa Claus
2021
as Nicola Natalizzi/Babbo Natale
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him ...

Fellini of the Spirits
2020
as Self
2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Federico Fellini, the most prominent Italian director and one of the symbols of the insuperable cinematic heyd...

Pinocchio
2019
as Mangiafuoco
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pin...

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
2018
as Self
This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a...

Il premio
2017
as Giovanni Passamonte
After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.
Uberto degli specchi
2016

Playback - Il caso Malien
2016

A qualcuno piacerà - Storia e storie di Elio Pandolfi
2015
as Sé stesso

Ma tu di che segno 6?
2014
as Avvocato Giuliano De Marchis
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.

Indovina chi viene a Natale?
2013
as Leonardo Sereni
A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, w...

Istintobrass
2013
as Self
One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifte...

Alberto il grande
2013
as Self
Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 20...

Il signore della truffa
2011

Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films
2011
as Professor Silenzio
An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and Furious" and "The Da Vinci Code".

Voi siete qui
2011
as Self

All at Sea
2011
as Smemorato
Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After...

Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven
2010
as San Filippo Neri
One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to ...

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self

Life Is a Wonderful Thing
2010
as Claudio
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an...

A Summer In The Caribbean
2009
as Alberto
Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there s...

A summer at the sea
2008
as Giulio / Narrator
Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship.

Il veterinario
2005
as Gigi Garulli
Gigi Garulli is a veterinarian who lives with his wife and two children in a beautiful villa. In addition to being a veterinarian, Gigi is also the qu...

Serata d'Onore: Gigi Proietti
2005

Mai storie d'amore in cucina
2004

The Jokes
2004
as il Padreterno/cameriere/portantino ospedaliero/cantante messicano/contadino/avvocato e cliente/direttore d'orchestra
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
2002
as Mandrake/Bruno Fioretti
Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?

Gigi Proietti Show - A me gli occhi 2000
2000

Dirty Linen
1999
as Prof. Rodolfo Melchiorri
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market bring...

Un nero per casa
1998
as Lorenzo Paradisi

Un nero per casa
1998
Director, Writer

D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994
as Giulio Mazarino
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and th...

Mille bolle blu
1993
as Narratore
The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is...

I 7 Re di Roma
1989
as Tiberino, Enea, Fauno Luperco, Romolo, Numa Pompilio, Tullo Ostilio, padre degli Orazi, Anco Marzio, Tarquinio Prisco, Servio Tullio, Tarquinio il Superbo, Bruto

Sue Me
1985
as Luigi Marchetti
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of proble...

FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
1983
as Curtatone
Gigi Proietti - La canzone del cane Milù
1983

Di padre in figlio
1982
as Self

I Don't Understand You Anymore
1980
as Alberto Spinelli
On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a ps...

Two Pieces of Bread
1979
as Albergatore
Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, and one of them is the father of her infant son; a...

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as Ravello
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each...

A Wedding
1978
as Dino Corelli I
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as...

Edipo Re
1977

Beach House
1977
as Gigi
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men wit...

Languidi baci... perfide carezze
1976
as Orfeo Scardamazzi
Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi

Horse Fever
1976
as Bruno "Mandrake" Fioretti
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets ...

The Inheritance
1976
as Pippo Ferramonti
In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage...

Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976
as Sonia / Filippo
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb a...

House of Pleasure for Women
1976
as Ivanoe (as Luigi Proietti)
The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has...

The Sex Machine
1975
as Prof. Enrico Coppola
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of awa...

Bambina
1974
as Saverio Mazzacolli
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-dist...

Property Is No Longer a Theft
1973
as Paco
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business u...

La Tosca
1973
as Mario Cavaradossi
Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped fro...

Meo Patacca
1972
as Meo Patacca
Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition...

Orders are Orders
1972
as Mario Pasini
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary...

Lady Liberty
1971
as Michel Bruni
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a hu...

Bubu
1971
as Giulio - the Thief
Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find th...

Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970
as Pattume; Colombino; la Morte
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Cru...

Dropout
1970
as Cieco
Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.

La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia
1970
as Don Chisciotte della Mancia

The Howl
1970
as Carlo detto 'Coso'
A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encoun...

The Howl
1970
Dialogue
A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encoun...

The Appointment
1969
Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.

A Rather Complicated Girl
1969
as Pietro
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painte...

The Libertine
1968
as Sandro Maldini
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own s...

Piccoli borghesi
1968
as Nil

Catch As Catch Can
1967
as Truccatore
Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!

Soldier's Girl
1967
as Cesare Bottazzi
Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in t...
The Misanthrope
1967
as Acasto
Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that social habits and the necessities of life do not fit th...

Vietnam guerra senza fronte
1967
as Voce
Documentary directed by Alessandro Perrone.

Pleasant Nights
1966
as Maresciallo (as Luigi Proietti)
A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.

Let's Talk About Women
1964
as Omero (uncredited)
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker ...