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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.
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16 January 1976
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy.
29 November 1973
Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor.
30 August 1972
Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, destined for illegal exportation to Switzerland, after the courier is killed in a fire fight with the border police.
20 May 1976
Three medical students who are reluctant to hit the books and unwilling to work are much more enthusiastic about creating pranks and targeting a thriving confidential, female doctor.
12 September 1980
There are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow who has absolutely nothing in common with the heroes he writes about.
11 June 1974
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis.
18 March 1981
Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star.
02 March 1976
In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler.
24 January 1974
Insatiable playboy Marco Donati decides to marry his latest flame, the beautiful Francesca. When the news gets into local newspapers, many of his former lovers are annoyed.
07 October 1975
When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count.
02 October 1966
An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
12 April 1973
When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem.
23 December 1975
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society.
22 May 1972
Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.
31 August 1978
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison.
22 January 1970
A married woman falls in love with a playboy dedicated to blackmail, to avoid that reveal his unedifying past, abandons her.
31 December 1970
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
02 February 1972
A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
25 March 1967
A violin player is going to be father of a sixth child by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous about that, he does not leave the clinic.
15 May 1974
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics.
08 October 1971
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
24 October 1974
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
31 January 1974
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad.
17 June 1973
Lawyer Stephen Blume, who specializes in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
12 October 1966
A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
01 October 1965
Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.
02 January 1970
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
14 August 1974
A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer.
28 March 1964
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
12 August 1971
Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated nation than Italy, he immediately adopts the Danish "free-sexual-taboo" way of life.
29 October 1976
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome.
08 February 1972
Sultan Almamud suddenly becomes powerless, unable to enjoy his beautiful Zumurud. The councillors then call people who can excite them by telling stories.
21 April 1966
Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
10 February 1966
An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.
06 March 1974
A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant clandestine.
12 February 1976
Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him.
13 November 1971
A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
15 September 1979
Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide to perform a show to celebrate the last day of school.
12 August 1977
Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italiay
13 September 1971
Pino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and his partner Nadine.
28 November 1968
In the second half of the 18th century, the young shepherdess Emma accidentally catches the eye of the English painter George Romney.
17 February 1977
The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.
13 April 1974
Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.
07 September 1968
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
01 January 1975
The adventures of the Etruscan Cassiodorus who, after having involuntarily captured a rebel, is named centurion and ingratiates himself with Nero.
20 March 1975
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work.
04 October 1968
When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life.
24 March 1968
One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to spend a relaxing day, find themselves involved in a series of unpleasant experiences instead.
24 November 1976
The young Rimini native Stefano Santi goes to Rome, with a letter of recommendation for the maestro Melchiorri, artistic director of the Opera House, to take part in a competition for cellists.
15 March 1973
Italian comedy
02 February 1970
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered).
06 August 1967
In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets.
20 May 1967
When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder.
