Gianni Agus

Gianni Agus
Agus in The Long, the Short, the Cat (1967)
Born
Giovanni Battista Agus

(1917-08-17)17 August 1917
Cagliari, Italy
Died4 March 1994(1994-03-04) (aged 76)
Rome, Italy
OccupationActor
Years active1938-1991

Gianni Agus (17 August 1917 – 4 March 1994) was an Italian actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1938. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1938 and 1991.[1]

Life and career

Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, after his diploma in accounting Agus moved to Rome to enrol in the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from which he graduated in 1938.[2] The same year he made his screen debut in Carmine Gallone's The Life of Giuseppe Verdi and his stage debut with the Merlini-Cialente company.[2]

Agus' career took off in the post-war period, with his participation in numerous revues and musical comedies, often working with Wanda Osiris.[2][3] His popularity in the general public increased thanks to the television, particularly with the hosting of the eight edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, and later as the sidekick of comedians Peppino De Filippo and Paolo Villaggio on several TV-shows.[3]

Partial filmography

TV

References

  1. ^ "Gianni Agus". MyMovies. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Lancia, Enrico (2003). "Agus, Gianni". Dizionario del cinema italiano : testi e strumenti per la scuola e l'università. Gli artisti : Vol. 3, Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri (in Italian). Gremese Editore. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-88-8440-213-4.
  3. ^ a b "Gianni Agus: la biografia dell'attore scomparso". Adnkronos. 5 March 1994. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
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