Giancarlo Giannini
Born August 01, 1942 (Age: 83)
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La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Biography
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). His other films include The Innocent (1976), Lili Marleen (1980), New York Stories (1990), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Man on Fire (2004), and the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He is also a dubbing artist, contributing voice work to the Italian-language versions of dozens of films since the 1960s. He has been the main Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975, and has also dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Giannini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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).
His other films include The Innocent (1976), Lili Marleen (1980), New York Stories (1990), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Man on Fire (2004), and the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He is also a dubbing artist, contributing voice work to the Italian-language versions of dozens of films since the 1960s. He has been the main Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975, and has also dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Giannini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Cabrini
2024
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as Pope Leo XIII
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Age: 81
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
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as Police Chief
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Age: 80
On Air: Storia di Un Successo
2016
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as Presidente
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Age: 73
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
2012
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as
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Age: 70
Omamamia
2012
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as Lorenzo
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Age: 70
Quantum of Solace
2008
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as Mathis
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Age: 66
Casino Royale
2006
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as Mathis
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Age: 64
Shadows in the Sun
2005
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as Father Moretti
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Age: 62
Man on Fire
2004
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as Miguel Manzano
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Age: 61
Darkness
2002
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as Albert Rua
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Age: 60
Joshua
2002
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as The Pope
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Age: 59
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
2002
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as Flavio Carboni
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Age: 59
Momo
2001
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as Presidente (voice)
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Age: 59
CQ
2001
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as Enzo
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Age: 58
Hannibal
2001
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as Insp. Renaldo Pazzi
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Age: 58
A Night with Sabrina Love
2000
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as Leonardo
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Age: 57
Viper
2000
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as Guastamacchia
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Age: 57
Mimic
1997
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as Manny
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Age: 55
Ultimo bersaglio
1997
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as Leo Steiner
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Age: 54
New York Crossing
1996
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as Enzo
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Age: 54
La frontiera
1996
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as Von Zirkenitz
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Age: 54
A Walk in the Clouds
1995
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as Alberto Aragón
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Age: 52
Once Upon a Crime
1992
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as Inspector Bonnard
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Age: 49
The Amusements of Private Life
1990
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as Charles Renard
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Age: 48
In The Rose Garden
1990
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as Tramontano
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Age: 48
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
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as Self
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Age: 48
Blood Red
1989
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as Sebastian Collogero
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Age: 47
New York Stories
1989
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as Claudio
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Age: 46
Saving Grace
1986
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as Abalardi
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Age: 43
Lili Marleen
1981
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as Robert
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Age: 38
The Innocent
1976
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as Tullio Hermil
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Age: 33
Swept Away
1974
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as Gennarino Carunchio
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Age: 32