Giancarlo Giannini

Born: 1942-08-01 in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy

Known For: Acting

Biography

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 The Innocent (1976), Lili Marleen (1980), New York Stories (1990), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Man on Fire (2004), and the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He is also a dubbing artist, contributing voice work to the Italian-language versions of dozens of films since the 1960s. He has been the main Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975, and has also dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Giannini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026

Tradita as Nicandro

2025

Rise of the Raven as Pope Eugene IV.
Judas' Gospel as narrator (voice)
Baracoa
Albatross as Vito
Mauro Corona - La mia vita finché capita as Sé stesso
Un viaggio per incontrare Mimì

2024

Cabrini as Pope Leo XIII

2023

Book Club: The Next Chapter as Police Chief
Senza malizia

2022

The Great Game as Dino De Gregorio
Duetto as Gino
Buon Lavoro
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist as Self

2021

Leonardo as Verrocchio
We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
I fratelli De Filippo as Eduardo Scarpetta
Gianni Schicchi as Buoso Donati
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore as Sé stesso
Hugo in Argentina as Narrator (voice)

2020

Starman as Se stesso

2019

Catch-22 as Marcello
Sand and Fire as Talleyrand

2018

The Catcher Was a Spy as Professor Eduardo Amaldi
Magical Nights as Leandro Saponaro
A Family Tale as Gian Pietro Liegi
Prigioniero della mia libertà as Ispettore Spaccini
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia as Self
Diminuta as Marco Aurelio

2009

I Will Return as Borghi
La bella società as Dott. Guarrasi

2008

Quantum of Solace as Mathis
Il sangue e la rosa as Cardinale Eugenio Rospigliosi
Bastardi as Il gatto
Io non dimentico as Salvatore Conticello
Il sangue e la rosa as Cardinal Rospigliosi
Il Maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia as Benedetto Diveri

2007

Milan – Palermo: The Return as Turi Leofonte
Il generale Dalla Chiesa as Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa

2006

Casino Royale as Mathis
L'onore e il rispetto as Don Giuseppe Bastianelli
The Maidens' Conspiracy as The Emperor
A Beautiful Vacation as Self
Salvatore. Questa è la vita as Timpaliscia

2005

Shadows in the Sun as Father Moretti
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' as Self
Raul - Right to Kill as Giudice Porfirio

2004

Man on Fire as Miguel Manzano
13 at a Table as Giulio
Le cinque giornate di Milano as Carlo Cattaneo

2003

My House in Umbria as Inspector Girotti
Five Moons Plaza as Branco
Incantato as Cesare Balocchi
Francesca and Nunziata as Giordano Montorsi
Forever as Giovanni
3 Women as David

2002

Darkness as Albert Rua
Joshua as The Pope
Amnèsia as Xavier (voice)
Dracula's Kiss as Dr. Enrico Valenzi
Ciao America as Zi' Felice
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair as Flavio Carboni
Dracula as Dr. Enrico Valenzi
Il consiglio d'Egitto as Narrator (voice)
Ti voglio bene Eugenio as Eugenio
On the Set of CQ as Self

2001

CQ as Enzo
Hannibal as Insp. Renaldo Pazzi
The Whole Shebang as Pop Bazinni
Momo as Presidente (voice)
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
A Long Long Long Night of Love as Marcello

2000

Frank Herbert's Dune as Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV
Viper as Guastamacchia
A Night with Sabrina Love as Leonardo

1999

Sweet Idleness as Count Nencini
Milonga as Commissario
The Wasteland as Macrì
No Deposit, No Return as Cesena

1998

The Dinner as Professore
La stanza dello Scirocco as Marchese di Acquafurata

1997

Mimic as Manny
Vacation in Hell as Ortega
Ultimo bersaglio as Leo Steiner
Heaven Before I Die as Thief

1996

The marshal Rocca as Benedetto
La lupa as Padre Angiolino
Elective Affinities as Narrator (voice)
Palermo – Milan One Way as Turi Leofonte
Celluloide as Sergio Amidei
Más allá del jardín as Bernardo
New York Crossing as Enzo
La frontiera as Von Zirkenitz
Fried Crumbed Brains

1995

A Walk in the Clouds as Alberto Aragón
Like Two Crocodiles as Pietro Fraschini

1994

Jacob as Laban
Black as the Heart as Valentino Bruio

1993

Colpo di coda as Professeur
Giovanni Falcone as Paolo Borsellino

1992

Toys ... (Prop Designer)
Once Upon a Crime as Inspector Bonnard

1991

Life with the Kids as Adriano Setti

1990

Life with the Kids as Adriano Setti
Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self
Dark Illness as Giuseppe Marchi
The Amusements of Private Life as Charles Renard
In The Rose Garden as Tramontano

1989

New York Stories as Claudio
Blood Red as Sebastian Collogero
Time to Kill as Il Maggiore
The Sleazy Uncle as Riccardo
'o Re as Francis II of the Two Sicilies
Brown Bread Sandwiches as Alberto

1988

Snack Bar Budapest as Avvocato

1987

I picari as Guzmán de Alfarache
Ternosecco as Domenico

1986

Sins as Marcello D'itri
Saving Grace as Abalardi

1985

Fever Pitch as Charley
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema as Self

1984

American Dreamer as Victor Marchand
Where's Picone? as Salvatore Cannavacciuolo

1982

My Darling, My Dearest as Gennarino Laganà

1981

Lili Marleen as Robert

1979

Life Is Beautiful as Antonio Murillo
Good News as L'Innominato
Lovers and Liars as Guido Massacesi

1978

A Night Full of Rain as Paolo
Blood Feud as Nicola Sanmichele detto 'Nick'

1976

The Innocent as Tullio Hermil

1975

Seven Beauties as Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze
Midnight Pleasures as Gino Benacio

1974

Swept Away as Gennarino Carunchio
The Murri Affair as Tullio Murri
The Beast as Nino Patrovita

1973

Love and Anarchy as Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'
How Funny Can Sex Be? 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')
The Sensual Man as Paolo Castorini
It Was I as Biagio Solise

1972

Indian Summer as Giorgio Mosca aka 'Spider'
The Seduction of Mimi as Carmelo Mardocheo / Mimí
Hector the Mighty as Ulisse, il drittone
Don Camillo and the Contestants as fratello di "Veleno"

1971

The Black Belly of the Tarantula as Inspector Tellini
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as Il neoammogliato
One Way Ticket as Weber
My Father Monsignor as Oreste
A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State as Walter Merighi

1970

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) as Nello
The Secret of Santa Vittoria as Fabio
Una macchia rosa as Giancarlo
La promessa as Leonidik

1969

The Sisters as Dario
The Betrayal as Hans Ruppert

1968

Anzio as Pvt. Cellini

1967

Arabella as Saverio
Don't Sting the Mosquito as Paolo Randi
Tonight I'll Throw Me as Carlo Timidoni
The Criminals of the Metropolis as Gerard Lemaire

1966

Rita the Mosquito as Paolo Randi

1965

David Copperfield as David Copperfield
Libido as Christian