Giancarlo Giannini
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Giancarlo Giannini (born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor, voice actor, film director and screenwriter. He won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Seven Beauties (1975). Among his other roles, he played French MI6 agent Rene Mathis in the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). As a voice dubber, Giannini is best known as the main Italian voice of Al Pacino.
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Biography
Early life
Giannini was born in La Spezia and he spent most of his childhood in the settlement of Pitelli. In 1952, Giannini and his family moved to Naples where he received a diploma in electronic engineering at the Alessandro Volta Technological State Technical Institute. During his teen years, he moved to Rome and studied at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his stage debut at the age of 18.
Acting career
Giannini made his film debut in a small part in I criminali della metropoli in 1965. He appeared in supporting roles in Anzio and The Secret of Santa Vittoria, and starred in the original version of Swept Away. In 1967, he was a special guest on an episode of Mina's TV show "Sabato Sera". In 1971, he appeared in E le stelle stanno a guardare, a television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Stars Look Down.
Giannini won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973). In 1976, he starred in Seven Beauties, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Giannini is known for his starring roles in films directed by Lina Wertmüller. In addition to Seven Beauties and Swept Away, he also appeared in The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, A Night Full of Rain, and Francesca e Nunziata.
Giannini has also achieved some international success. His fluency in English has brought him a number of featured roles in Hollywood productions, most notably as Inspector Pazzi in Hannibal. He also appeared in Man on Fire. Giannini played Alberto Aragón in A Walk in the Clouds in 1995, and Emperor Shaddam IV in the 2000 Dune miniseries. In 2002, he starred in the horror film Darkness. He later portrayed French agent René Mathis in the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008).
Selected filmography
Films
- Libido (1965) as Christian
- Rita the Mosquito (1966) as Paolo Randi
- I criminali della metropoli (1967) as Gerard Lemaire
- Don't Sting the Mosquito (1967) as Paolo Randi
- Stasera mi butto (1967) as Carlo Timidoni
- Arabella (1967) as Saverio
- Anzio (1968) as Pvt. Cellini
- Fräulein Doktor (1969) as Lt. Hans Rupert
- Le sorelle (1969) as Dario
- The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) as Fabio
- Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969) as Giacomo Casanova (voice, uncredited)
- The Pizza Triangle (1970) as Nello
- Una macchia rosa (1970) as Giancarlo
- Una prostituta al servizio del pubblico e in regola con le leggi dello stato (1971) as Walter
- Mazzabubù... Quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) as Lucio, the newly wed
- Un aller simple (1971) as Weber
- Mio padre monsignore (1971) as Oreste
- Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) as Inspector Tellini
- Hector the Mighty (1972) as Ulisse
- The Seduction of Mimi (a.k.a. Mimi metallurgico ferito nell'onore) (1972) as Carmelo Mardocheo detto Mimí
- Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (1972) as Veleno
- La prima notte di quiete (1972) as Giorgio Mosca aka 'Spider'
- Love and Anarchy (1973) as Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'
- It Was I (1973) as Biagio Solise
- The Sensual Man (1973) as Paolo Castorini
- How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973) as 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")
- Drama of the Rich (1974) as Tullio Murri
- The Beast (1974) as Nino Patrovita
- Swept Away (1974) as Gennarino Carunchio
- The Immortal Bachelor (1975) as Gino Benacio
- Seven Beauties (1975) (a.k.a. Pasqualino Settebellezze) as Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze (Nomination Academy Award for best actor)
- The Innocent (1976) as Tullio Hermil
- A Night Full of Rain (1978) as Paolo
- Blood Feud (1978) as Nicola Sanmichele detto 'Nick'
- Lovers and Liars (1979) as Guido Massacesi
- Good News (1979) as L'Innominato
- Life Is Beautiful (1979) as Antonio Murillo
- Lili Marleen (1981) as Robert
- My Darling, My Dearest (1982) as Gennarino Laganà
- Where's Picone? (1984) as Salvatore Cannavacciuolo
- American Dreamer (1984) as Victor Marchand
- Fever Pitch (1985) as Charley
- Saving Grace (1986) as Abalardi
- Ternosecco (1987) as Domenico
- The Rogues (1987) as Guzman
- Snack Bar Budapest (1988) as Avvocato
- 'o Re (1989) as Francis II of the Two Sicilies
- New York Stories (1989) as Claudio (segment "Life without Zoe")
- Blood Red (1989) as Sebastian Collogero
- The Sleazy Uncle (1989) as Riccardo
- Brown Bread Sandwiches (1989) as Alberto
- Time to Kill (1989) as Major
- Dark Illness (1990) as Giuseppe Marchi
- Nel giardino delle rose (1990) as Tramontano
- The Amusements of Private Life (1990) as Charles Renard
- Once Upon a Crime (1992) as Inspector Bonnard
- Giovanni Falcone (1993) as Paolo Borsellino
- Like Two Crocodiles (1994) as Pietro Fraschini
- A Walk in the Clouds (1995) as Alberto Aragón
- Palermo - Milan One Way (1995) as Turi Leofonte
- Celluloide (1996) as Sergio Amidei
- The Elective Affinities (1996) as Narrator (voice)
- The Border (1996) as Von Zirkenitz
- La lupa (1996) as Padre Angiolino
- The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1996) as Taxi
- Ultimo bersaglio (1996) as Leo Steiner
- Más allá del jardín (1996) as Bernardo
- Cervellini fritti impanati (1996)
- Mimic (1997) as Manny
- Una vacanza all'inferno (1997) as Avv. Ortega
- Heaven Before I Die (1997) as Thief
- The Dinner (1998) as Professore
- Dolce far niente (1998) as Count Nencini
- The Room of the Scirocco (1998) as Marquis of Acquafurata
- Vuoti a perdere (1999) as Francesco Cesena
- Milonga (1999) as Commissioner
- Terra bruciata (1999) as Macrì
- Una noche con Sabrina Love (2000) as Leonardo
- Viper (2000) as Guastamacchia
- Welcome Albania (2000)
- Hannibal (2001) as Inspector Pazzi
- Una lunga lunga lunga notte d'amore (2001) as Marcello
- CQ (2001) as Enzo
- The Whole Shebang (2001) as Pop Bazinni
- Momo (2001) as Capo degli Uomini Grigi (voice)
- I Love You Eugenio (2002) as Eugenio
- Ciao America (2002) as Zi' Felice
- The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002) as Flavio Carboni
- Joshua (2002) as The Pope
- Darkness (2002) as Albert Rua
- The Council of Egypt (2002) as Narrator (voice)
- Mario Monicelli, l'artigiano di Viareggio (2002) as Himself
- Incantato (2003) as Cesare
- My House in Umbria (2003, TV Movie) as Inspector Girotti
- Five Moons Square (2003) as Branco
- L'acqua... il fuoco (2003) as David
- Forever (2003) as Giovanni
- Man on Fire (2004) as Miguel Manzano
- 13 at a Table (2004) as Older Giulio
- Raul: Straight to Kill (2005) as Giudice Porfirio
- The Shadow Dancer (2005) as Father Moretti
- Tirant lo Blanc (2006) as Emperor of Visantia
- Salvatore - Questa è la vita (2006) as Timpaliscia
- Casino Royale (2006) as René Mathis
- Milano Palermo - Il ritorno (2007) as Turi Leofonte
- Bastardi (2008) as Il Gatto
- Quantum of Solace (2008) as René Mathis
- La bella società (2010) as Dott. Guarrasi
- La prima notte della luna (2010) as Ivan
- Omamamia (2012) as Lorenzo
- AmeriQua (2013) as Don Cesare Ferracane
- Ti ho cercata in tutti i necrologi (2013) as Nikita
- Promakhos (2014, directed by Coerte Voorhees, John Voorhees) as Petros
- Shades of Truth, (2015, directed by Liana Marabini) as Aaron Azulai
- On Air: Storia di un successo (2016) as Presidente
- Il ragazzo della Giudecca (2016) as Giudice Mangrella
- Prigioniero Della Mia Liberta (2016)
- Oggi a te... domani a me (2016)
- Nobili bugie (2017) as Franco
- The Neighborhood (2017) as Gianluca Moretti
- Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle (2017) as Catarella
- Pipi, Pupu & Rosemary: the Mystery of the Stolen Notes (2017) as Narrator (voice)
- Liubov pret-a-porte (2017) as Giorgio's father
- The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) as Professor Eduardo Amaldi
- Magical Nights (2018) as Leandro Saponaro
