Acting credits
55
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Gigi Ballista
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.9
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Movies: 53Series: 2
TMDB ID: 32315
IMDb ID: nm0050876
Known for: Acting
Born: December 1, 1918
Died: August 2, 1980
Age: 61
Place of birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1964 - 1981
Years active: 18
Average TMDB rating: 6.2
Wikidata: Q1523677
Also known as
Giggi Ballista • Luigi Ballista
Biography
Gigi Ballista (1 December 1918 – 2 August 1980) was an Italian film and television actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1961 and 1980. Born in Florence, Ballista graduated in Law, then he started working as a PR consultant in the field of advertising and industrial documentaries. He debuted as an actor at a mature age in the early 1960s with some minor roles, but his breakout came in 1966 with a role of weight in Pietro Germi's The Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Following the critical and commercial success of the film, Ballista decided to pursue a professional career as an actor, and he became, mainly thanks to his characteristic hoarse and dysphonic voice, one of the most recognizable character actors in Italian cinema and television.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Gigi Ballista.
4.4
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
as Bishop
1981 Movie
4.2
I Hate Blondes
as Psychiatrist
1980 Movie
4.3
Liquirizia
as Bartolozzi
1979 Movie
7.4
Midnight Express
as Chief Judge
1978 Movie
5.1
The Schoolmate
as Girardi
1977 Movie
3.8
Mala, Love and Death
as Carlo Alberto Giorgi
1977 Movie
Un amore targato Forlì
1976 Movie
7.3
Horse Fever
as Count Dallara
1976 Movie
4.8
Under the Sheets
as Professor Ciotti
1976 Movie
5.5
Salon Kitty
as Nazi General
1976 Movie
5.8
Confessions of a Lady Cop
as Questore Moretti
1976 Movie
5.2
La madama
as The Venetian
1976 Movie
6.4
The Sunday Woman
as Vollero
1975 Movie
4.8
The Family Vice
as Conte Giosuè
1975 Movie
6.2
The Noon Vigilante
as direttore Filiberto Rossetti
1975 Movie
2.0
Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
as Cornelius da Mediolanum
1975 Movie
5.6
Policewoman
as avvocato
1974 Movie
4.0
Poker in Bed
as comm. Gervasio Caminata
1974 Movie
4.2
Italian Sex
as padre di Carletto
1974 Movie
5.9
Stavisky...
as Gaston Henriet
1974 Movie
4.0
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
as amico di Gino
1974 Movie
6.0
Fischia Il Sesso
as Mr. Lewis
1974 Movie
7.2
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
as Dottore
1974 Movie
Anima mia
as Filippo Tornabuoni
1974 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Gigi Ballista.
