Gigi Ballista
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.888 |
| Birthday | 1918-12-01 |
| Place of Birth | Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
| Also Known As | Giggi Ballista, Luigi Ballista, |
1970
Lady Caliph
5.4/19
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 i...
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Lady Caliph
1976
Under the Sheets
4.5/7
Three medical students who are reluctant to hit the books and unwilling to work are much more enthusiastic about creating pranks and targeting a thriv...
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Under the Sheets
1968
Emma Hamilton
4.4/8
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Emma Hamilton
1970
Una storia d'amore
3/2
A married woman falls in love with a playboy dedicated to blackmail, to avoid that reveal his unedifying past, abandons her.
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Una storia d'amore
1973
Giovannona Long-Thigh
5.922/51
When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they d...
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Giovannona Long-Thigh
1976
Confessions of a Lady Cop
5.9/38
Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman...
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Confessions of a Lady Cop
1967
The Climax
6.1/10
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... excep...
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The Climax
1974
Fischia Il Sesso
6/1
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 cland...
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Fischia Il Sesso
1972
Blessed Are the Rich
6.5/3
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, af...
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Blessed Are the Rich
1973
The Lady Has Been Raped
4.7/3
Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both sh...
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The Lady Has Been Raped
1976
La madama
4.5/1
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 (Christi...
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La madama
1979
Liquirizia
5/4
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 scho...
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Liquirizia
1968
Sunstroke
0/0
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...
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Sunstroke
1975
Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
2.5/2
The adventures of the Etruscan Cassiodorus who, after having involuntarily captured a rebel, is named centurion and ingratiates himself with Nero. He...
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Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
1975
The Family Vice
5.3/12
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. But there are other...
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The Family Vice
1973
Increase and Multiply
1/1
Italian comedy
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Increase and Multiply
1975
The Sunday Woman
6.445/64
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's...
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The Sunday Woman
1970
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
5.5/4
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). He attemp...
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
1966
Pleasant Nights
6.2/6
A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
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Pleasant Nights
1977
Mala, Love and Death
3/2
The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.
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Mala, Love and Death
1972
Snow Job
4.4/4
A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
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Snow Job
1981
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe
4.8/6
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 abou...
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L'assistente sociale tutto pepe
1977
The Schoolmate
5.5/21
Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italian sex-comedy
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The Schoolmate
1971
No One Will Notice You're Naked
4.7/7
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...
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No One Will Notice You're Naked
1972
Black Turin
5.4/15
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 T...
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Black Turin
1971
Do Not Commit Adultery
4.6/9
Pino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and his partner Nadine. One day Pino sees Maria Teresa stu...
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Do Not Commit Adultery
1974
Poker in Bed
4.3/15
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...
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Poker in Bed
1971
Roma bene
5.9/9
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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Roma bene
1980
I Hate Blondes
4.6/5
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 h...
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I Hate Blondes
1972
1001 Nights of Pleasure
3.8/4
Sultan Almamud suddenly becomes powerless, unable to enjoy his beautiful Zumurud. The councillors then call people who can excite them by telling stor...
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1001 Nights of Pleasure
1974
Policewoman
5.7/19
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
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Policewoman
1976
Salon Kitty
5.563/120
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army off...
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Salon Kitty
1970
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
6.827/52
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1966
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
7.089/62
An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a c...
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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
1974
Italian Sex
4.9/7
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 se...
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Italian Sex
1967
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
3.25/2
When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon uncovers a drug-smuggling op...
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The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
1973
Blume in Love
5.857/21
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife...
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Blume in Love
1978
Midnight Express
7.513/1645
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 y...
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Midnight Express
1976
Un amore targato Forlì
0/0
The young Rimini native Stefano Santi goes to Rome, with a letter of recommendation for the maestro Melchiorri, artistic director of the Opera House,...
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Un amore targato Forlì
1971
Trastevere
6.6/4
A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
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Trastevere
1968
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
6.772/57
When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it...
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Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
1964
The Maniacs
5/10
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
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The Maniacs
1974
Anima mia
0/0
Insatiable playboy Marco Donati decides to marry his latest flame, the beautiful Francesca. When the news gets into local newspapers, many of his form...
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Anima mia
1966
The Queens
5.6/13
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina" chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Que...
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The Queens
1974
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
7.3/108
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were a...
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
1967
Il fischio al naso
5.417/6
In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose...
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Il fischio al naso
1975
Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
6.2/4
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. He deci...
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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
1966
How I Learned to Love Women
4/6
An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
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How I Learned to Love Women
1976
Horse Fever
7.336/350
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...
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Horse Fever
1968
Galileo
6.26/25
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
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Galileo
1974
Stavisky...
6.173/98
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French...
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Stavisky...
1965
Il morbidone
1/1
Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.
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