Ugo Tognazzi — Actor (50)
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Dismissed on His Wedding Night (1968)
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Ugo Tognazzi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Maria Grazia Buccella …
other title: Sissignore / El fiel servidor
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
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The Cat (1977)
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Luigi Comencini actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Mariangela Melato …
other title: Il gatto / Der Kater läßt das Mausen nicht …
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
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La Cage aux Folles II (1980)
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Édouard Molinaro actor: Michel Serrault / Ugo Tognazzi …
other title: Il vizietto II / A gaiola das loucas 2 …
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
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First Love (1978)
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Dino Risi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Ornella Muti …
other title: Primo amore / Ein Sack voll Flöhe …
Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.
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In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
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Dino Risi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Vittorio Gassman …
other title: In nome del popolo italiano / Abend ohne Alibi …
An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
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The Payoff (1978)
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Sergio Corbucci actor: Nino Manfredi / Paolo Stoppa …
other title: La mazzetta / El abogado de paja …
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
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Ettore Scola actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Giuseppe Maffioli …
other title: Il commissario Pepe / Le Fouineur …
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
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Duck in Orange Sauce (1975)
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Luciano Salce actor: Monica Vitti / Ugo Tognazzi …
other title: L'anatra all'arancia / Pato Com Laranja …
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
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The Baron's Mazurka (1975)
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Pupi Avati actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Paolo Villaggio …
other title: La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone / La Mazurka du baron …
A fig tree growing in the estates of Baron Anteo Pellacani has been worshipped since the Middle Ages, after a Saint was supposedly martyred there. The Baron, who was crippled in a fig tree-related accident and has since become a raging atheist, vows to tear it down—until he mistakes a beautiful prostitute momentarily lying on the tree for the Saint herself, falling in love with her. Her pimp, his relatives and the clergy try to take advantage of his newfound faith.
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The Maids (1959)
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Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Giovanna Ralli / Valeria Moriconi …
other title: Le cameriere
Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
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The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
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Dino Risi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Patrick Dewaere …
other title: La stanza del vescovo / Das rote Zimmer …
Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit (1983)
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Lina Wertmüller actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Renzo Montagnani …
other title: Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada / A Joke of Destiny
The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them.
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The Conjugal Bed (1963)
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Marco Ferreri actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Marina Vlady …
other title: Una storia moderna - L'ape regina / Die Bienenkönigin …
A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.