
Acting
Johnny Dorelli
Born 1937-02-20 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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 Sanremo Song Festival. His greatest success was the musical Aggiungi un posto a tavola, which was also performed at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End in an English version entitled Beyond the Rainbow in 1978. After a period of absence, he returned to success in the 1980s. In 1983, he played St. Philip Neri in Luigi Magni's TV film State buoni se potete. Dorelli's latest feature film role is in Pupi Avati's Ma quando arrivano le ragazze (2004). After marriages to actresses Lauretta Masiero and Catherine Spaak (1972–1979), he is currently married to Gloria Guida, a former actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Johnny Dorelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
5.1Dorellik, 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.
How to Kill 400 Duponts
1968
5.9Annalisa 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.
My Loves
1978
4.4Playwright 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.
Tesoromio
1979
6.6A 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.
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
1958
6.6After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
And Agnes Chose to Die
1976
4.4Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
Sesso e volentieri
1982
3.7Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.
Love in 4 Easy Lessons
1976
7.2An 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?
Bread and Chocolate
1974
4.7Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.
Sweetheart
1977
6.9Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.
State buoni se potete
1983
5.0A 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.
I'm Getting a Yacht
1980
6.8Four penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.
Beach Types
1959
5.9The 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".
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
1983
5.0Piero 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...
The Persian Lamb Coat
1980
5.3Alberto 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.
How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover
1978
4.2Giovanni 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?
Hot Spirits
1981
5.6Three 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.
Keep It To Yourself!
1976
5.6Sicilia 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!
The Odd Squad
1982
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Ma tu mi vuoi bene?
1992
4.4The young manager of a small television station loses his sight following an accident. When he buys her back, thanks to a new accident, he discovers that his wife is cheating on him, that his best friend has sold the television and that the girl he was falling in love with is only an investigator of the insurance company.
Let's Make It Clear
1984
5.0At 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.
God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up
1982
6.5On 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.
I Don't Understand You Anymore
1980
6.4A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.
The Fiend
1977
5.7Fun adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger, a broken financial genius.
Tit for Tat
1984