- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 1, 1942
- Place of Birth
- La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Giancarlo Giannini
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 Th…
Filmography
movieTradita
2026 · Nicandro
movieTonight in Turin
2025 · Fred Buscaglione
movieBaracoa
2025
movieUn viaggio per incontrare Mimì
2025
movieJudas' Gospel
2025 · narrator (voice)
movieAlbatross
2025 · Vito
movieMauro Corona - La mia vita finché capita
2025 · Sé stesso
tvRise of the Raven
2025 · Pope Eugene IV.
movieTonight in Rome
2024 · Ospite
movieCabrini
2024 · Pope Leo XIII
movieTonight in Paris
2023 · commissario Maigret
movieSenza malizia
2023
movieBook Club: The Next Chapter
2023 · Police Chief
movieTonight in Milan
2022 · Alessandro Manzoni
tvThe Great Game
2022 · Dino De Gregorio
movieDuetto
2022 · Gino
movieFranco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
2022 · Self
movieBuon Lavoro
2022
movieStanotte a Napoli
2021 · Carlo (VII) di Napoli
movieWe Are Cinema
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieI fratelli De Filippo
2021 · Eduardo Scarpetta
movieGianni Schicchi
2021 · Buoso Donati
movieVitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
2021 · Sé stesso
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021
movieHugo in Argentina
2021 · Narrator (voice)
tvLeonardo
2021 · Verrocchio
movieStarman
2020 · Se stesso
movieSand and Fire
2019 · Talleyrand
tvCatch-22
2019 · Marcello
movieMagical Nights
2018 · Leandro Saponaro
movieSono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
2018 · Self
movieDiminuta
2018 · Marco Aurelio
movieStanotte a Pompei
2018 · Plinio Il Giovane
movieThe Catcher Was a Spy
2018 · Professor Eduardo Amaldi
moviePrigioniero della mia libertà
2018 · Ispettore Spaccini
tvA Family Tale
2018 · Gian Pietro Liegi
moviePipi, Pupu & Rosemary: The Mystery of the Stolen Notes
2017 · Narratore (voice)
movieTulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
2017 · Catarella
movieThe Neighborhood
2017 · Gianluca Moretti
movieStanotte a Venezia
2017 · Carlo Goldoni
movieNobili bugie
2017 · Franco
movieLove Pret-a-porte
2017 · Giorgio's father
movieThe Good Italian III - The Magic of Naples
2017 · Principe
movieStanotte a San Pietro
2016 · Gian Lorenzo Bernini
movieBlack and White Stripes: The Juventus Story
2016 · Self - Narrator (voice)
movieStanotte a Firenze
2016 · Giorgio Vasari
movieThe Boy from Giudecca
2016 · Giudice Mangrella
movieOn Air: Storia di Un Successo
2016 · Presidente
movieAstrosamantha
2016
Caruso presents: The Good Italian II - The Prince goes to Milan
2016 · Principe
movieBehind the White Glasses
2015 · Self
movieSergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man
2015 · Himself
Caruso presents: The Good Italian I - The Farmhouse of Wonders
2015 · Principe
tvTonight in...
2015 · Se stesso
movieThe Day of the Two Holy Popes
2015
movieThe First Line
2014 · Petros
movie27 aprile Racconto di un evento
2014 · Voice
movieThe Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
2013 · Nikita, Director
movieEurotrapped
2013 · Don Ferracane
movieUn angelo all'inferno
2013 · Pietro Bardelli
movieOmamamia
2012 · Lorenzo
movieMichelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
2012
tvPipì, Pupù e Rosmarina
2012 · Narratore (voice)
movieFirst Happiness
2011 · Ettore
movieVittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010 · Self
movieI Will Return
2009 · Borghi
movieLa bella società
2009 · Dott. Guarrasi
movieQuantum of Solace
2008 · Mathis
movieIl sangue e la rosa
2008 · Cardinal Rospigliosi
tvIl sangue e la rosa
2008 · Cardinale Eugenio Rospigliosi
movieIl Maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia
2008 · Benedetto Diveri
Il Maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia
2008 · Benedetto Diveri
movieIo non dimentico
2008 · Salvatore Conticello
Io non dimentico
2008 · Salvatore Conticello
movieBastardi
2008 · Il gatto
movieMilan – Palermo: The Return
2007 · Turi Leofonte
movieIl generale Dalla Chiesa
2007 · Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
movieA Beautiful Vacation
2006 · Self
movieCasino Royale
2006 · Mathis
movieSalvatore. Questa è la vita
2006 · Timpaliscia
tvL'onore e il rispetto
2006 · Don Giuseppe Bastianelli
movieThe Maidens' Conspiracy
2006 · The Emperor
movieElio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005 · Self
movieVengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
2005 · Self
movieShadows in the Sun
2005 · Father Moretti
movieRaul - Right to Kill
2005 · Giudice Porfirio
tvLe cinque giornate di Milano
2004 · Carlo Cattaneo
movie13 at a Table
2004 · Giulio
movieMan on Fire
2004 · Miguel Manzano
movieForever
2003 · Giovanni
movie3 Women
2003 · David
movieMy House in Umbria
2003 · Inspector Girotti
movieFive Moons Plaza
2003 · Branco
movieIncantato
2003 · Cesare Balocchi
movieFrancesca and Nunziata
2003 · Giordano Montorsi
movieDarkness
2002 · Albert Rua
On the Set of CQ
2002 · Self
movieDracula
2002 · Dr. Enrico Valenzi
tvDracula's Kiss
2002 · Dr. Enrico Valenzi
movieJoshua
2002 · The Pope
movieAmnèsia
2002 · Xavier (voice)
movieThe Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
2002 · Flavio Carboni
movieTi voglio bene Eugenio
2002 · Eugenio
movieIl consiglio d'Egitto
2002 · Narrator (voice)
movieCiao America
2002 · Zi' Felice
movieMomo
2001 · Presidente (voice)
movieBreaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001 · Self
movieCQ
2001 · Enzo
movieA Long Long Long Night of Love
2001 · Marcello
movieThe Whole Shebang
2001 · Pop Bazinni
movieHannibal
2001 · Insp. Renaldo Pazzi
tvFrank Herbert's Dune
2000 · Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV
movieA Night with Sabrina Love
2000 · Leonardo
movieViper
2000 · Guastamacchia
movieThe Wasteland
1999 · Macrì
movieMilonga
1999 · Commissario
movieSweet Idleness
1999 · Count Nencini
movieNo Deposit, No Return
1999 · Cesena
movieLa stanza dello Scirocco
1998 · Marchese di Acquafurata
movieThe Dinner
1998 · Professore
movieVacation in Hell
1997 · Ortega
movieMimic
1997 · Manny
movieUltimo bersaglio
1997 · Leo Steiner
movieHeaven Before I Die
1997 · Thief
movieMás allá del jardín
1996 · Bernardo
movieNew York Crossing
1996 · Enzo
movieLa lupa
1996 · Padre Angiolino
movieFried Crumbed Brains
1996
movieLa frontiera
1996 · Von Zirkenitz
movieElective Affinities
1996 · Narrator (voice)
moviePalermo – Milan One Way
1996 · Turi Leofonte
movieCelluloide
1996 · Sergio Amidei
tvThe Marshal Rocca
1996 · Benedetto
movieA Walk in the Clouds
1995 · Alberto Aragón
movieLike Two Crocodiles
1995 · Pietro Fraschini
movieJacob
1994 · Laban
movieBlack as the Heart
1994 · Valentino Bruio
movieGiovanni Falcone
1993 · Paolo Borsellino
tvColpo di coda
1993 · Professeur
movieToys
1992 · Prop Designer
movieOnce Upon a Crime
1992 · Inspector Bonnard
tvLife with the Kids
1991 · Adriano Setti
movieThe Amusements of Private Life
1990 · Charles Renard
movieIn The Rose Garden
1990 · Tramontano
movieAnthony Quinn: An Original
1990 · Self
movieDark Illness
1990 · Giuseppe Marchi
movieLife with the Kids
1990 · Adriano Setti
movieThe Sleazy Uncle
1989 · Riccardo
movieTime to Kill
1989 · Il Maggiore
movieBrown Bread Sandwiches
1989 · Alberto
movieBlood Red
1989 · Sebastian Collogero
movieNew York Stories
1989 · Claudio
movie'o Re
1989 · Francis II of the Two Sicilies
movieSnack Bar Budapest
1988 · Avvocato
movieI picari
1987 · Guzmán de Alfarache
movieTernosecco
1987 · Domenico, Director
movieSaving Grace
1986 · Abalardi
tvSins
1986 · Marcello D'itri
movieFever Pitch
1985 · Charley
movieBellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985 · Self
movieAmerican Dreamer
1984 · Victor Marchand
movieWhere's Picone?
1984 · Salvatore Cannavacciuolo
movieMy Darling, My Dearest
1982 · Gennarino Laganà, Writer
movieLili Marleen
1981 · Robert
movieLife Is Beautiful
1979 · Antonio Murillo
movieGood News
1979 · L'Innominato, Producer
movieLovers and Liars
1979 · Guido Massacesi
movieBlood Feud
1978 · Nicola Sanmichele detto 'Nick'
movieA Night Full of Rain
1978 · Paolo
movieThe Innocent
1976 · Tullio Hermil
movieSeven Beauties
1975 · Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze, Producer
movieMidnight Pleasures
1975 · Gino Benacio
movieSwept Away
1974 · Gennarino Carunchio
movieThe Murri Affair
1974 · Tullio Murri
movieThe Beast
1974 · Nino Patrovita
movieHow Funny Can Sex Be?
1973 · 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')
movieThe Sensual Man
1973 · Paolo Castorini
movieIt Was I
1973 · Biagio Solise
movieLove and Anarchy
1973 · Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'
movieIndian Summer
1972 · Giorgio Mosca aka 'Spider'
movieDon Camillo and the Contestants
1972 · fratello di "Veleno"
movieThe Seduction of Mimi
1972 · Carmelo Mardocheo / Mimí
movieHector the Mighty
1972 · Ulisse, il drittone
movieThe Black Belly of the Tarantula
1971 · Inspector Tellini
movieOne Way Ticket
1971 · Weber
movieMy Father Monsignor
1971 · Oreste
movieMazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
1971 · Il neoammogliato
movieA Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
1971 · Walter Merighi
movieLa promessa
1970 · Leonidik
movieUna macchia rosa
1970 · Giancarlo
movieA Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
1970 · Nello
movieThe Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970 · Fabio
movieThe Sisters
1969 · Dario
movieThe Betrayal
1969 · Hans Ruppert
movieAnzio
1968 · Pvt. Cellini
movieArabella
1967 · Saverio
movieTonight I'll Throw Me
1967 · Carlo Timidoni
movieDon't Sting the Mosquito
1967 · Paolo Randi
movieThe Criminals of the Metropolis
1967 · Gerard Lemaire
movieRita the Mosquito
1966 · Paolo Randi
tvDavid Copperfield
1965 · David Copperfield
movieLibido
1965 · Christian