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
Il furto della gioconda
Poupardin
Il Circolo Pickwick
Nathaniel Winkle
Salon Kitty
Nazi General
Midnight Express
Chief Judge
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Dottore
The Family Vice
Conte Giosuè
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Commendatore La Noce
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Padre Polenta
Stavisky...
Gaston Henriet
Lady Caliph
Il principe industriale
Confessions of a Lady Cop
Questore Moretti
The Schoolmate
Girardi
Italian Sex
padre di Carletto
Policewoman
avvocato
1001 Nights of Pleasure
Genie in Lamp
The Sunday Woman
Vollero
Poker in Bed
comm. Gervasio Caminata
Emma Hamilton
Cardinal Ruffo
Blume in Love
Older Man
How I Learned to Love Women
sir Archibald
Do Not Commit Adultery
Padre Spiridione
Galileo
commissario domenicano
Blessed Are the Rich
Commendatore
Under the Sheets
Professor Ciotti
Horse Fever
Count Dallara
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
Bishop
The Maniacs
Count at the Party (segment "l'hobby") (uncredited)
Roma bene
Vitozzi
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Giacinto Castellan
The Queens
The Priest ("Fata Marta")
Pleasant Nights
Luca di Montemerlo
Black Turin
Marinotti
Liquirizia
Bartolozzi
Trastevere
Count
The Seventh Floor
medico
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
Il medico
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Engineer
I Hate Blondes
Psychiatrist
The Noon Vigilante
direttore Filiberto Rossetti
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
Aldo
La madama
The Venetian
Increase and Multiply
Dottore
The Climax
Don Michele
Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
Cornelius da Mediolanum
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Silvio Borelon
The Lady Has Been Raped
Carini
Il morbidone
Fischia Il Sesso
Mr. Lewis
Anima mia
Filippo Tornabuoni
Snow Job
Un amore targato Forlì
Mala, Love and Death
Carlo Alberto Giorgi
Il fratello
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
amico di Gino
Una storia d'amore
Borgognini
Sunstroke
Conte Malvezzi