Giancarlo Giannini

Actor

Born August 1, 1942 in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy

Giancarlo Giannini (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒanˈniːni]; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties (1975). He is also a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor. Giannini began his career on stage, starring in Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. After appearing predominantly on television throughout the early 1960s, he had his first lead role in a film in Rita the Mosquito (1965), the first of many collaborations with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller. He rose to international stardom through Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973), Swept Away (1974), culminating in his Oscar-nominated turn in Seven Beauties (1975).

Filmography

Tradita

Nicandro

Tonight in Turin

Fred Buscaglione

Baracoa

Un viaggio per incontrare Mimì

Judas' Gospel

narrator (voice)

Albatross

Vito

Mauro Corona - La mia vita finché capita

Sé stesso

Rise of the Raven

Pope Eugene IV.

Tonight in Rome

Ospite

Cabrini

Pope Leo XIII

Tonight in Paris

commissario Maigret

Senza malizia

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Police Chief

Tonight in Milan

Alessandro Manzoni

The Great Game

Dino De Gregorio

Duetto

Gino

Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist

Self

Buon Lavoro

Stanotte a Napoli

Carlo (VII) di Napoli

We Are Cinema

Self (archive footage)

I fratelli De Filippo

Eduardo Scarpetta

Gianni Schicchi

Buoso Donati

Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore

Sé stesso

Hugo in Argentina

Narrator (voice)

Leonardo

Verrocchio

Starman

Se stesso

Sand and Fire

Talleyrand

Catch-22

Marcello

Magical Nights

Leandro Saponaro

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

Self

Diminuta

Marco Aurelio

Stanotte a Pompei

Plinio Il Giovane

The Catcher Was a Spy

Professor Eduardo Amaldi

Prigioniero della mia libertà

Ispettore Spaccini

A Family Tale

Gian Pietro Liegi

Pipi, Pupu & Rosemary: The Mystery of the Stolen Notes

Narratore (voice)

Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle

Catarella

The Neighborhood

Gianluca Moretti

Stanotte a Venezia

Carlo Goldoni

Nobili bugie

Franco

Love Pret-a-porte

Giorgio's father

The Good Italian III - The Magic of Naples

Principe

Stanotte a San Pietro

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story

Self - Narrator (voice)

Stanotte a Firenze

Giorgio Vasari

The Boy from Giudecca

Giudice Mangrella

On Air: Storia di Un Successo

Presidente

Astrosamantha

Behind the White Glasses

Self

Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man

Himself

Tonight in...

Se stesso

The Day of the Two Holy Popes

The First Line

Petros

27 aprile Racconto di un evento

Voice

The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die

Nikita

Eurotrapped

Don Ferracane

Un angelo all'inferno

Pietro Bardelli

Omamamia

Lorenzo

Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone

Pipì, Pupù e Rosmarina

Narratore (voice)

First Happiness

Ettore

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

Self

I Will Return

Borghi

La bella società

Dott. Guarrasi

Quantum of Solace

Mathis

Il sangue e la rosa

Cardinal Rospigliosi

Il sangue e la rosa

Cardinale Eugenio Rospigliosi

Il Maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia

Benedetto Diveri

Io non dimentico

Salvatore Conticello

Bastardi

Il gatto

Milan – Palermo: The Return

Turi Leofonte

Il generale Dalla Chiesa

Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa

A Beautiful Vacation

Self

Casino Royale

Mathis

Salvatore. Questa è la vita

Timpaliscia

L'onore e il rispetto

Don Giuseppe Bastianelli

The Maidens' Conspiracy

The Emperor

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

Self

Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'

Self

Shadows in the Sun

Father Moretti

Raul - Right to Kill

Giudice Porfirio

Le cinque giornate di Milano

Carlo Cattaneo

13 at a Table

Giulio

Man on Fire

Miguel Manzano

Forever

Giovanni

3 Women

David

My House in Umbria

Inspector Girotti

Five Moons Plaza

Branco

Incantato

Cesare Balocchi

Francesca and Nunziata

Giordano Montorsi

Darkness

Albert Rua

Dracula

Dr. Enrico Valenzi

Dracula's Kiss

Dr. Enrico Valenzi

Joshua

The Pope

Amnèsia

Xavier (voice)

The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair

Flavio Carboni

Ti voglio bene Eugenio

Eugenio

Il consiglio d'Egitto

Narrator (voice)

Ciao America

Zi' Felice

Momo

Presidente (voice)

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

Self

Enzo

A Long Long Long Night of Love

Marcello

The Whole Shebang

Pop Bazinni

Hannibal

Insp. Renaldo Pazzi

Frank Herbert's Dune

Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV

A Night with Sabrina Love

Leonardo

Viper

Guastamacchia

The Wasteland

Macrì

Milonga

Commissario

Sweet Idleness

Count Nencini

No Deposit, No Return

Cesena

La stanza dello Scirocco

Marchese di Acquafurata

The Dinner

Professore

Vacation in Hell

Ortega

Mimic

Manny

Ultimo bersaglio

Leo Steiner

Heaven Before I Die

Thief

Más allá del jardín

Bernardo

New York Crossing

Enzo

La lupa

Padre Angiolino

Fried Crumbed Brains

La frontiera

Von Zirkenitz

Elective Affinities

Narrator (voice)

Palermo – Milan One Way

Turi Leofonte

Celluloide

Sergio Amidei

The Marshal Rocca

Benedetto

A Walk in the Clouds

Alberto Aragón

Like Two Crocodiles

Pietro Fraschini

Jacob

Laban

Black as the Heart

Valentino Bruio

Giovanni Falcone

Paolo Borsellino

Colpo di coda

Professeur

Toys

Once Upon a Crime

Inspector Bonnard

Life with the Kids

Adriano Setti

The Amusements of Private Life

Charles Renard

In The Rose Garden

Tramontano

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Self

Dark Illness

Giuseppe Marchi

Life with the Kids

Adriano Setti

The Sleazy Uncle

Riccardo

Time to Kill

Il Maggiore

Brown Bread Sandwiches

Alberto

Blood Red

Sebastian Collogero

New York Stories

Claudio

'o Re

Francis II of the Two Sicilies

Snack Bar Budapest

Avvocato

I picari

Guzmán de Alfarache

Ternosecco

Domenico

Saving Grace

Abalardi

Sins

Marcello D'itri

Fever Pitch

Charley

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Self

American Dreamer

Victor Marchand

Where's Picone?

Salvatore Cannavacciuolo

My Darling, My Dearest

Gennarino Laganà

Lili Marleen

Robert

Life Is Beautiful

Antonio Murillo

Good News

L'Innominato

Lovers and Liars

Guido Massacesi

Blood Feud

Nicola Sanmichele detto 'Nick'

A Night Full of Rain

Paolo

The Innocent

Tullio Hermil

Seven Beauties

Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze

Midnight Pleasures

Gino Benacio

Swept Away

Gennarino Carunchio

The Murri Affair

Tullio Murri

The Beast

Nino Patrovita

How Funny Can Sex Be?

Domenico ('Signora sono le 8') / Cesaretto ('Due cuori e una baracca') / Enrico ('Non è mai troppo tardi') / Lello ('Viaggio di nozze') / Giansiro ('Torna piccina mia') / The Donor ('Lavoratore italiano all'estero') / Michele Maccò ('La vendetta') / Saturnino ('Un amore difficile') / Dottor Bianchi ('L'ospite')