- Born
- Died
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Very popular actor and writer in Italy. He worked in over 80 movies and TV series. Known especially for portraing the character of "Fantozzi" on several movies. Paolo Villaggio was born on December 30, 1932 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was known for Fantozzi (1975) (aka Fantozzi), Fantozzi 2 (1976), Fantozzi in Heaven (1993) and the TV Series Carabinieri (2002). He was married to Maura Albites. He died on July 3, 2017 in Rome, Lazio, Italy, just 7 months after completing his last movie W gli Sposi (2019).
- IMDb mini biography by: MzAic
- SpouseMaura Albites(June 25, 1959 - July 3, 2017) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- ParentsEttore VillaggioMaria Faraci
- RelativesPiero Villaggio(Sibling)
- His trademark character is a low-ranked white collar, with a mediocre life and poor tastes, always mistreated by his superiors, to whom he speaks always in a servile posture and coarse voice.
- He wrote the lyrics for the humorous ballad "Carlo Martello torna dalla battaglia di Poitiers," brought to fame by the top popular Italian folk singer Fabrizio De André.
- His trademark character Fantozzi became part of the Italian language: "Fantozziano," referred to a situation, is acknowledged by some dictionaries as synonymous with embarrassing, Kafkian, low-profile or poor taste.
- His career started as a TV stand-up comic, but his top trademark character, the low-profile accountant Fantozzi, was born as a book character when he started writing. Despite the fact that the book was a big hit and the movies made from it were also hits, he was not--to put it lightly--a "favorite" of Italian film critics. Nevertheless, the book won him the Gogol Prize for humor literature in Russia.
- Father is an Italian engineer and mother is a German twice-graduated teacher.
- He has a twin brother named Piero, an engineering graduate who became Full Professor of Construction Science (the most important subject for the courses of civil engineering in Italy), at the prestigious University of Pisa.
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