Acting

Johnny Dorelli

Born February 20, 1937 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy (age 89)

Johnny Dorelli (born 20 February 1937) is an Italian actor, singer and showman. Born as Giorgio Guidi in Meda, he debuted as singer in the late 1950s for CGD label. In 1958 he won the Sanremo Festival in duo with Domenico Modugno, with the songs "Nel blu dipinto di blu" (also known as "Volare") and "Piove (Ciao ciao bambina)". "L'immensità" earned Dorelli a ninth place at the 1967 edition of the …

Known For

And Agnes Chose to Die

And Agnes Chose to Die · 1976

And Agnes Chose to Die

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover · 1978

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate · 1974

Bread and Chocolate

MovieComedyDrama

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Love in 4 Easy Lessons

Love in 4 Easy Lessons · 1976

Love in 4 Easy Lessons

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

I'm Getting a Yacht

I'm Getting a Yacht · 1980

I'm Getting a Yacht

A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.

The Monster

The Monster · 1977

A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.

How to Kill 400 Duponts

How to Kill 400 Duponts · 1968

How to Kill 400 Duponts

Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance.

Sesso e volentieri

Sesso e volentieri · 1982

Sesso e volentieri

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

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And Agnes Chose to Die

And Agnes Chose to Die · 1976

And Agnes Chose to Die

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

Walter

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover · 1978

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

Alberto Castelli

Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate · 1974

Bread and Chocolate

MovieComedyDrama

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Italian Industrialist

Love in 4 Easy Lessons

Love in 4 Easy Lessons · 1976

Love in 4 Easy Lessons

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

Marco Antonioli (segment "La visita")

I'm Getting a Yacht

I'm Getting a Yacht · 1980

I'm Getting a Yacht

A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.

Dr. Piero Savelli

The Monster

The Monster · 1977

A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.

Valerio Barigozzi

How to Kill 400 Duponts

How to Kill 400 Duponts · 1968

How to Kill 400 Duponts

Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance.

Dorellik

Sesso e volentieri

Sesso e volentieri · 1982

Sesso e volentieri

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

Husband of Linda / Nino Pacini / Luca / Client of Antonio / Pino Franceschi / Garbelli / Giorgio Giovanardi / Supermarket client / Vito Punturieri / Stelio Rapazzoni

Tit for Tat

Tit for Tat · 1984

Fun adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger, a broken financial genius.

Emanuele Sansoni

Tesoromio

Tesoromio · 1979

Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.

Enrico Moroni

The Persian Lamb Coat

The Persian Lamb Coat · 1980

The Persian Lamb Coat

Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...

Piero / Maurice

State buoni se potete

State buoni se potete · 1983

State buoni se potete

MovieComedyDrama

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.

Don Filippo Neri

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio · 1983

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs. The title translates as "Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel".

Il mago Gaspar (episodio "Il mago")

My Loves

My Loves · 1978

Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find another husband, the university professor Antonio, who marries without the first being able to notice it. Until she gets pregnant.

Marco Rossi

Divorzio alla siciliana

Divorzio alla siciliana · 1963

Divorzio alla siciliana

Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?

Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? · 2005

Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?

MovieComedyDrama

In 1994, Gianca and Nick, two twenty-year-olds from Bologna, met in Perugia during a workshop for young musicians at Umbria Jazz. Both dreamed of making it big in the entertainment world. Nine years later, the two would meet again at Nick's big concert at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, which Gianca, a confused member of the audience, watched, shocked and moved.

Ludovico Zanichelli

Sweetheart

Sweetheart · 1977

Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.

Alfredo Meneghini

Keep It To Yourself!

Keep It To Yourself! · 1976

Keep It To Yourself!

Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone.

Antonio Bormioli

Hot Spirits

Hot Spirits · 1981

MovieHorrorComedy

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?

Giovanni degli Uberti / Guiscardo

Guardatele ma non toccatele

Guardatele ma non toccatele · 1959

Guardatele ma non toccatele

An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.

tenente Altieri

The Odd Squad

The Odd Squad · 1982

Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!

Ten. Federico Tocci

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up · 1982

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up

At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.

Don Celeste Restani

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche · 1958

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.

Carlo Caprioli

I Don't Understand You Anymore

I Don't Understand You Anymore · 1980

I Don't Understand You Anymore

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.

Paolo Malpieri

Cuore

Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.

Maestro Perboni

La coscienza di Zeno

La coscienza di Zeno · 1988

La coscienza di Zeno

A RAI miniseries, based on the novel by Italo Svevo.

Zeno Cosini

Die diebischen Zwillinge

Die diebischen Zwillinge · 1971

Die diebischen Zwillinge

SeriesMysteryComedy

The twins Judy and Kathy are two successful show dancers who are supported by their manager Alberto. In addition to their talent for the big stage, the two also have another gift: they are gifted thieves. The fact that they look like two peas in a pod is often a great advantage. Alberto can't do anything about it and usually has to get them out of trouble.

Manager Alberto