Luigi 'Gigi' Proietti, the beloved Italian comedian, musician, television presenter, actor and voice actor who enjoyed a long film career would be best remembered as the star of a TV series playing a small-town police chief and for his popular one-man stage show. Proietti was also a talent-scout and mentor of the new generation Italian's stage actors. He was a Dubbing Director and interpreter of hundreds of original characters, and cult-movies. Some of his best works as an actor amd/or director... moreLuigi 'Gigi' Proietti, the beloved Italian comedian, musician, television presenter, actor and voice actor who enjoyed a long film career would be best remembered as the star of a TV series playing a small-town police chief and for his popular one-man stage show. Proietti was also a talent-scout and mentor of the new generation Italian's stage actors. He was a Dubbing Director and interpreter of hundreds of original characters, and cult-movies. Some of his best works as an actor amd/or director would be La Tosca (1973), Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting (2002) and Horse Fever (1976). He had a keen interest in music and will always sing and play guitar, accordion, double bass or piano in Roman nightclubs. He was discovered by Giancarlo Cobelli, when he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the La Sapienza University and attended the University Theatre Centre's mimicry courses. In 1966, after several works, Proietti debuted in cinema and television in Pleasant Nights . He had a breakthrough in 1971, when he replaced Domenico Modugno in the stage musical Alleluja brava gente by Garinei & Giovannini, starring Renato Rascel. Born on November 2nd, Day of the Dead, Proietti used to joke about that, and ended up dying on the same day, aged exactly 80. Proietti suffered a heart attack and died on the early morning of his 80th birthday, on 2 November 2020.
