Armando Trovajoli

Known For: Sound
Born: September 2, 1917
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died: February 28, 2013

Armando Trovajoli

Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of Boccaccio '70. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola. Trovajoli was the husband of actress Pier Angeli. He died in Rome at the age of 95 on 28 February 2013. After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1948), Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra, set with 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, harp, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, drums and the piano (played by Trovajoli himself). In 1…

Filmography

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

2018 · Music

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

2010 · Self

Life Is a Wonderful Thing

2010 · Music

Marcello, una vita dolce

2006 · Self, Music

Lives of the Saints

2004 · Music

People of Rome

2003 · Original Music Composer

La notte di Pasquino

2003 · Original Music Composer

Unfair Competition

2001 · Original Music Composer

Rugantino

1998 · Original Music Composer

The Dinner

1998 · Music

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

1997 · Original Music Composer

Giovani e belli

1996 · Music

The Story of a Poor Young Man

1995 · Original Music Composer

Mario, Maria and Mario

1993 · Original Music Composer

Berlin '39

1993 · Original Music Composer

Centro storico

1992 · Original Music Composer

Gangsters

1992 · Original Music Composer

Cinecittà Cinecittà

1992 · Original Music Composer

The Wicked

1991 · Music

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa

1990 · Original Music Composer

Aggiungi un posto a tavola

1990 · Original Music Composer

What Time Is It?

1989 · Original Music Composer

Running Away

1989 · Music

Splendor

1989 · Music

Days of Inspector Ambrosio

1988 · Original Music Composer

Miss Arizona

1988 · Original Music Composer

The Family

1987 · Original Music Composer

A Thorn in the Heart

1986 · Music

Macaroni

1985 · Original Music Composer

Frankenstein 90

1984 · Original Music Composer

Le Bal

1983 · Music Consultant

Dagger Eyes

1983 · Music

Sing Sing

1983 · Original Music Composer

Count Tacchia

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Balad of Mamelouk

1982 · Original Music Composer

Plus beau que moi tu meurs

1982 · Original Music Composer

Viuuulentemente mia

1982 · Original Music Composer

Grand Hotel Excelsior

1982 · Original Music Composer

That Night of Varennes

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Paramedic

1982 · Music

Passion of Love

1981 · Original Music Composer

Shut Up When You Speak!

1981 · Music

Perché non facciamo l'amore

1981 · Music

Arrivano i bersaglieri

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Terrace

1980 · Original Music Composer

La amante ingenua

1980 · Original Music Composer

Life Is Beautiful

1979 · Original Music Composer

The Swap

1979 · Music

Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot

1979 · Original Music Composer

My Loves

1978 · Original Music Composer

Rugantino

1978 · Music

Aggiungi un posto a tavola

1978 · Original Music Composer

The New Monsters

1977 · Original Music Composer

In the Name of the Pope King

1977 · Original Music Composer

Wifemistress

1977 · Original Music Composer

A Special Day

1977 · Original Music Composer

The Bishop's Bedroom

1977 · Original Music Composer

Keep It To Yourself!

1976 · Original Music Composer

Dimmi che fai tutto per me

1976 · Original Music Composer

Evil Thoughts

1976 · Music

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

1976 · Original Music Composer

La banca di Monate

1976 · Music

Blackmail Chase

1976 · Original Music Composer

Luna di miele in tre

1976 · Original Music Composer

Shadows in an Empty Room

1976 · Original Music Composer

The Career of a Chambermaid

1976 · Original Music Composer

Duck in Orange Sauce

1975 · Original Music Composer

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

1975 · Original Music Composer

We All Loved Each Other So Much

1974 · Original Music Composer

Scent of a Woman

1974 · Original Music Composer

The Way of the Baboons

1974 · Original Music Composer

Di mamma non ce n'è una sola

1974 · Original Music Composer

Amore e ginnastica

1973 · Music

How Funny Can Sex Be?

1973 · Original Music Composer

Rugantino

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Sensual Man

1973 · Original Music Composer

La Tosca

1973 · Original Music Composer

It Was I

1973 · Music

The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

1972 · Music

The Italian Connection

1972 · Original Music Composer

The Migratory Bird

1972 · Music

The Valachi Papers

1972 · Original Music Composer

My Name Is Rocco Papaleo

1971 · Original Music Composer

That's How We Women Are

1971 · Music

Homo Eroticus

1971 · Music

The Double

1971 · Original Music Composer

No One Will Notice You're Naked

1971 · Original Music Composer

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

1971 · Original Music Composer

The Priest's Wife

1970 · Original Music Composer

The Married Priest

1970 · Original Music Composer

May Morning

1970 · Music

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

1970 · Music

Normal Young Man

1969 · Original Music Composer

Lovemaker

1969 · Original Music Composer

The Conspirators

1969 · Original Music Composer

Police Chief Pepe

1969 · Original Music Composer

Where Are You Going All Naked?

1969 · Original Music Composer

How, When, and with Whom

1969 · Original Music Composer

I See Naked

1969 · Original Music Composer

A Bullet for Rommel

1969 · Music

The Libertine

1968 · Original Music Composer

Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?

1968 · Original Music Composer

Faustina

1968 · Original Music Composer

Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses

1968 · Original Music Composer

Seven Times Seven

1968 · Original Music Composer

La Famiglia Benvenuti

1968 · Original Music Composer

Fuller Report, Base Stockholm

1968 · Original Music Composer

The Prophet

1968 · Original Music Composer

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

1968 · Original Music Composer

Acid Delirium of the Senses

1968 · Original Music Composer

Deadly Sweet

1967 · Original Music Composer

Anyone Can Play

1967 · Original Music Composer

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

1967 · Original Music Composer

Assault on the State Treasure

1967 · Original Music Composer

Don Juan in Sicily

1967 · Original Music Composer

Long Days of Vengeance

1967 · Original Music Composer

Maigret at the Pigalle

1966 · Music

The Devil in Love

1966 · Original Music Composer

The Treasure of San Gennaro

1966 · Original Music Composer

Our Husbands

1966 · Original Music Composer

The Spy Who Loved Flowers

1966 · Original Music Composer

Kill, Baby... Kill!

1966 · Music

The Queens

1966 · Original Music Composer

Adultery Italian Style

1966 · Original Music Composer

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

1966 · Original Music Composer

So This Is God's Country?

1966 · Music

Violence and Love

1965 · Compositor, Original Music Composer

Complexes

1965 · Self (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone") (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Conductor

Casanova '70

1965 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Assassination in Rome

1965 · Original Music Composer

The Dolls

1965 · Original Music Composer

Beautiful Families

1964 · Original Music Composer

Marriage Italian Style

1964 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

My Wife

1964 · Original Music Composer

The Magnificent Cuckold

1964 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Il gaucho

1964 · Original Music Composer

Attack and Retreat

1964 · Original Music Composer

What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?

1964 · Original Music Composer

Let's Talk About Women

1964 · Original Music Composer

Un momento muy largo

1964 · Music

The Thursday

1964 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

High Infidelity

1964 · Original Music Composer

Una storia di notte

1964 · Sound

The Visitor

1963 · Original Music Composer

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1963 · Giorgio Ferrario, Original Music Composer, Music Director

The Monsters

1963 · Original Music Composer

Gli onorevoli

1963 · Original Music Composer

Totò sexy

1963 · Original Music Composer

The Scapegoat

1963 · Music

I terribili sette

1963 · Original Music Composer

In Italia si chiama amore

1963 · Original Music Composer

The Monk of Monza

1963 · Original Music Composer

Toto at Night

1962 · Original Music Composer

Warriors Five

1962 · Original Music Composer

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

1962 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Alone Against Rome

1962 · Original Music Composer

The Four Monks

1962 · Original Music Composer

East Zone, West Zone

1962 · Music

Always on Sunday

1962 · Sound, Original Music Composer

Il mio amico Benito

1962 · Original Music Composer

Boccaccio '70

1962 · Original Music Composer

Planets Around Us

1962 · Original Music Composer

Down With Uncle

1962 · Music

Ten Italians for One German

1961 · Original Music Composer

His Women

1961 · Original Music Composer

Fists, Girls and Sailors

1961 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Hercules in the Haunted World

1961 · Original Music Composer

Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory

1961 · Music

The Girl of a Thousand Months

1961 · Original Music Composer

The Orderly

1961 · Original Music Composer

The Giant of Metropolis

1961 · Original Music Composer

Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules

1961 · Original Music Composer

Laura nuda

1961 · Music

The Grand Olympics

1961 · Original Music Composer

Ghosts of Rome

1961 · Conductor

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life

1961 · Original Music Composer

Slave of Rome

1961 · Music

Two Women

1960 · Original Music Composer

Il corazziere

1960 · Original Music Composer

Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan

1960 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Little Girls and High Finance

1960 · Original Music Composer

Questo amore ai confini del mondo

1960 · Music

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

1960 · Original Music Composer

Le pillole di Ercole

1960 · Music

Atom Age Vampire

1960 · Original Music Composer

I piaceri del sabato notte

1960 · Music

I piaceri dello scapolo

1960 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

A Soldier and a Half

1960 · Original Music Composer

La Dolce Vita

1960 · Music Arranger

A qualcuna piace calvo

1959 · Original Music Composer

The Widower

1959 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Uncle Was a Vampire

1959 · Original Music Composer, Music Director

La cento chilometri

1959 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Winter Holidays

1959 · Original Music Composer

Poor Millionaires

1959 · Original Music Composer

Camping

1958 · Original Music Composer

Il cocco di mamma

1957 · Original Music Composer

America By Night

1957 · Music

Bravissimo

1955 · Conductor

Le Amiche

1955 · Musician

The Prince with the Red Mask

1955 · Original Music Composer

Caravan of songs

1955 · Conductor

Woman of the River

1954 · Original Music Composer

Two Nights with Cleopatra

1954 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Of Life and Love

1954 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

A Day in Court

1954 · Original Music Composer

Funniest Show on Earth

1953 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Era lei che lo voleva!

1953 · Original Music Composer

The Unfaithfuls

1953 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Girls Marked Danger

1952 · Original Music Composer

Brothers of Italy

1952 · Music

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