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Years active
  
1970–present

Name
  
Roberto Benigni

Role
  
Actor


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Full Name
  
Roberto Remigio Benigni

Born
  
27 October 1952 (age 71) (
1952-10-27
)
Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter, actor, comedian

Spouse
  
Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Parents
  
Isolina Papini, Remigio Benigni

Movies
  
Similar People
  
Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Massimo Troisi, Jim Jarmusch, Horst Buchholz

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Roberto Remigio Benigni, ([roˈbɛrto beˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He co-wrote, directed and acted in the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful, which garnered him the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also portrayed Inspector Clouseau's son in Son of the Pink Panther (1993) and has collaborated with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in three of his films: Down by Law (1986), Night on Earth (1991) and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003).

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Early years

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Benigni was born in Manciano La Misericordia (a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino), the son of Isolina Papini, a fabric maker, and Luigi Benigni, a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer. He was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy; he still considers himself a believer. His first experiences as a theatre actor took place in 1971, in Prato. During that autumn he moved to Rome where he took part in some experimental theatre shows, some of which he also directed. In 1975, Benigni had his first theatrical success with Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, written by Giuseppe Bertolucci.

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Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a television series called Onda Libera, on RAI2, produced by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted the satirical piece The Hymn of the Body Purged (L'inno del corpo sciolto, a scatological song about the joys of defecation). A great scandal for the time, the series was suspended due to censorship. His first film was 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You (Berlinguer ti voglio bene), also by Bertolucci.

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His popularity increased with L'altra domenica (1976/9), another TV show of Arbore's in which Benigni portrayed a lazy film critic who never watches the films he's asked to review. Bernardo Bertolucci then cast him in a small speechless role as a window upholsterer in the film La Luna which had limited American distribution due to its subject matter.

1980s

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In 1980 he met Cesenate actress Nicoletta Braschi, who was to become his wife and who has starred in most of the films he has directed.

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In June 1983 he appeared during a public political demonstration by the Italian Communist Party, with which he was a sympathiser, and on this occasion he lifted and cradled the party's national leader Enrico Berlinguer. It was an unprecedented act, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal. Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show ("Wojtylaccio", meaning "Bad Wojtyla" in Italian, but with a friendly meaning in Tuscan dialect).

Benigni's first film as director was Tu mi turbi (You Upset Me) in 1983. This film was also his first collaboration with Braschi.

In 1984, he played in Non ci resta che piangere ("Nothing Left to Do But Cry") with comic actor Massimo Troisi. The story was a fable in which the protagonists are suddenly thrown back in time to the 15th century, just a little before 1492. They start looking for Christopher Columbus in order to stop him from discovering the Americas (for very personal reasons), but are not able to reach him.

Benigni in the United States and his collaboration with Cerami

Beginning in 1986, Benigni starred in three films by American director Jim Jarmusch. In Down By Law (1986) (which in Italy had its title spelled "Daunbailò", in Italian phonetics) he played Bob, an innocent foreigner living in the United States, convicted of manslaughter, whose irrepressible good humour and optimism help him to escape and find love. (The film also starred Braschi as his beloved.) In Night on Earth, (1991) he played a cabbie in Rome, who causes his passenger, a priest, great discomfort and a heart attack by confessing his bizarre sexual experiences. Later, he also starred in the first of Jarmusch's series of short films, Coffee and Cigarettes (2003).

In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1993, he starred in Son of the Pink Panther, directed by veteran Blake Edwards. Benigni played Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son who is assigned to save the Princess of Lugash. The film bombed in the US, but was a hit in his homeland.

Benigni had a rare serious role in Federico Fellini's last film, La voce della luna ("The Voice of the Moon") (1989). In earlier years Benigni had started a long-lasting collaboration with screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami, for a series of films which scored great success in Italy: Il piccolo diavolo ("The Little Devil") with Walter Matthau, Johnny Stecchino ("Johnny Toothpick"), and Il mostro ("The Monster").

Life Is Beautiful

Benigni is perhaps best known outside Italy for his 1997 tragicomedy Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), filmed in Arezzo, also written by Cerami. The film is about an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect his son's innocence during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win. Benigni's father had spent three years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, and La vita è bella is based in part on his father's experiences. Benigni was also inspired by the story of Holocaust survivor Rubino Romeo Salmonì. Although the story and presentation of the film had been discussed during production with different Jewish groups to limit the offense it might cause, the film was attacked by critics who accused it of presenting the Holocaust without much suffering, and some who considered that "laughing at everything" was not appropriate. More favourable critics praised Benigni's artistic daring and skill to create a sensitive Comedy involving the tragedy, a challenge that Charlie Chaplin confessed he would not have done with The Great Dictator had he been aware of the horrors of the Holocaust.

In 1998, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards. At the 1999 ceremony, the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (which Benigni accepted as the film's director), Best Original Dramatic Score (the score by Nicola Piovani), and Benigni received the award for Best Actor (the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles).

Famously, giddy with delight after Life Is Beautiful was announced as the Best Foreign Language Film, Benigni climbed over and then stood on the backs of the seats in front of him and applauded the audience before proceeding to the stage. After winning his Best Actor Oscar later in the evening, he said in his acceptance speech, "This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English!" To close his speech, Benigni quoted the closing lines of Dante's Divine Comedy, referencing "the love that moves the sun and all the stars." At the following year's ceremony, when he read the nominees for Best Actress (won by Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry), host Billy Crystal playfully appeared behind him with a large net to restrain Benigni if he got excessive with his antics again. On a 1999 episode of Saturday Night Live, host Ray Romano played him in a sketch parodying his giddy behavior at the ceremony.

Beyond Life Is Beautiful

Benigni played one of the main characters in Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar as Detritus, a corrupt Roman provincial governor who wants to kill Julius Caesar, thereby seizing control of the Roman Republic.

As a director, his 2002 film Pinocchio, one of the costliest films in Italian cinema, performed well in Italy, but it bombed in North America, with a 0% critics' score at Rotten Tomatoes. He was also named as the Worst Actor for his role as Pinocchio, in the 23rd Golden Raspberry Awards. The original Italian version was not so poorly greeted and received six nominations at the David di Donatello Awards, winning two, as well as winning one of the two awards it was nominated for at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.

That same year, he gave a typically energetic and revealing interview to Canadian filmmaker Damian Pettigrew for Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2002), a cinematic portrait of the maestro that was nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards, Europe's equivalent of the Oscars. The film went on to win the prestigious Rockie Award for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival (2002) and the Coup de Coeur at the International Sunnyside of the Doc Marseille (2002).

In 2003, Benigni was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), receiving the Foundation's NIAF Special Achievement Award in Entertainment.

His film La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow, 2005) is a love story set during the initial stage of the Iraq War.

On 15 October 2005, he performed an impromptu strip tease on Italy's most watched evening news program, removing his shirt and draping it over the newscaster's shoulders. Prior to removing his shirt, Benigni had already hijacked the opening credits of the news program, jumping behind the newscaster and announcing: "Berlusconi has resigned!" (Benigni is an outspoken critic of media tycoon and then former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.) The previous day, he had led a crowd of thousands in Rome on Friday in protest at the center-right government's decision to cut state arts funding by 35 percent.

On 2 February 2007, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. On 22 April 2008, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa was conferred on him by the University of Malta, celebrated by a Settimana Dantesca including Benigni's first stage appearance at a university and the premiere of his performing with Dante scholar Robert Hollander.

Benigni has reportedly received offers to bring his Dante show to Broadway, all of which he has turned down.

His film from 2012 is To Rome with Love with Woody Allen in 2012 during Laura Kaeppeler's year as Miss America.

TuttoDante

Benigni is an improvisatory poet (poesia estemporanea is a form of art popularly followed and practiced in Tuscany), appreciated for his explanation and recitations of Dante's Divina Commedia from memory.

During 2006 and 2007, Benigni had a lot of success touring Italy with his 90-minute "one man show" TuttoDante ("Everything About Dante"). Combining current events and memories of his past narrated with an ironic tone, Benigni then begins a journey of poetry and passion through the world of the Divine Comedy.

TuttoDante has been performed in numerous Italian piazzas, arenas, and stadiums for a total of 130 shows, with an estimated audience of about one million spectators. Over 10 million more spectators watched the TV show, Il V canto dell’Inferno ("The 5th Song of Hell"), broadcast by Rai Uno on 29 November 2007, with re-runs on Rai International.

Benigni began North American presentations of TuttoDante with an announcement that he learned English to bring the gift of Dante's work to English speakers. The English performance incorporates dialectic discussion of language and verse and is a celebration of modernity and the concept of human consciousness as created by language.

Benigni brought "TuttoDante" to the United States, Canada and Argentina in the TuttoDante Tour between 2008-2009 with performances in San Francisco, Boston and Chicago. Benigni was feted in San Francisco at a special reception held by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in his honor on May 24, 2009. Following his U.S. premiere Benigni performed his last presentation on 16 June 2009, in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he was awarded Honorary Citizenship of the City of Buenos Aires in a ceremony held at the Legislative Palace in homage to the notable Italian diaspora and culture in Argentina.

Other media

Roberto Benigni is also a singer-songwriter. Among his recorded performances are versions of Paolo Conte's songs.

Honors

In 1999, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.

Honorary degrees

In addition to numerous film awards, Benigni has garnered honorary degrees from universities worldwide:

  • 1999 – Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
  • 2002 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Bologna, Italy.
  • 2003 – Honorary Degree in Psychology from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
  • 2007 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
  • 2007 – Honorary Degree in Modern Philology from the University of Florence, Italy.
  • 2008 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Malta.
  • 2008 – Honorary Degree in Communication Arts from the Touro University Rome, Zagarolo, Italy.
  • 2012 – Honorary Degree in Modern Philology from the University of Calabria, Italy.
  • 2012 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • 2015 – Honorary Doctorate in Laws from the University of Toronto, Canada.
  • Influence

    The Europe List, the largest survey on European culture, established that the top three films in European culture are

    1. Benigni's Life is Beautiful
    2. Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others
    3. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie

    Books

  • E l'alluce fu... monologhi e gags (1996)
  • Filmography

    Actor
    -
    God Bless You Al Pacino (pre-production) as
    Pope
    2019
    Pinocchio as
    Geppetto
    2012
    To Rome with Love as
    Leopoldo
    2011
    Pistachio - The Little Boy That Woodn't as
    Head of Italy
    2010
    La commedia di Amos Poe (voice)
    2005
    The Tiger and the Snow as
    Attilio de Giovanni
    2003
    Caterina in the Big City as
    Roberto (Special Guest)
    2003
    Coffee and Cigarettes as
    Roberto (segment "Strange to Meet You")
    2002
    Pinocchio as
    Pinocchio
    1999
    Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar as
    Lucius Detritus
    1997
    Life Is Beautiful as
    Guido
    1994
    The Monster as
    Loris
    1993
    Son of the Pink Panther as
    Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli
    1991
    Johnny Stecchino as
    Dante / Johnny Stecchino
    1991
    Night on Earth as
    Driver (segment "Rome")
    1990
    The Voice of the Moon as
    Ivo Salvini
    1988
    The Little Devil as
    Giuditta
    1986
    Coffee and Cigarettes (Short) as
    Roberto
    1986
    Down by Law as
    Roberto
    1984
    Nothing Left to Do but Cry as
    Saverio
    1983
    F.F.S.S., cioè: '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?' as
    Lo sceicco Beige
    1983
    You Disturb Me as
    Benigno (segments "Durante Cristo" and "In banca") / Roberto (segment "Angelo") / Soldier (segment "I due milliti")
    1982
    Morto Troisi, viva Troisi! (TV Movie) as
    L'amico d'infanzia anonimo / Self
    1981
    Il minestrone as
    Maestro
    1980
    Il pap'occhio as
    Benigni
    1979
    Ma che cos'è questo amore (TV Mini Series) as
    Il pensatore
    - Episode #1.2 (1979) - Il pensatore
    - Episode #1.1 (1979) - Il pensatore
    1979
    Seeking Asylum as
    Roberto
    1979
    I giorni cantati as
    Il professore
    1979
    Luna as
    Upholsterer
    1979
    Womanlight as
    Le barman du Clapsy's
    1979
    Tigers in Lipstick as
    The Principal
    1978
    Vita da Cioni (TV Mini Series) as
    Mario Cioni
    - Episode #1.3 (1978) - Mario Cioni
    - Episode #1.2 (1978) - Mario Cioni
    - Episode #1.1 (1978) - Mario Cioni
    1977
    Berlinguer: I Love You as
    Mario Cioni
    1976
    Onda libera (TV Mini Series) as
    Mario Cioni
    - Episode #1.4 (1977) - Mario Cioni
    - Episode #1.3 (1977) - Mario Cioni
    - Episode #1.2 (1976) - Mario Cioni
    - Episode #1.1 (1976) - Mario Cioni
    1976
    L'Altra Domenica (TV Series) as
    Surrealistic Cinematographic Critic (1978)
    1973
    Seguirà una brillantissima farsa... (TV Series) as
    Pizzuga
    - La villana di Lamporecchio (1973) - Pizzuga
    1972
    Sorelle Materassi (TV Mini Series) as
    Un giovanotto
    - Episode #1.1 (1972) - Un giovanotto
    Writer
    2012
    Roberto Benigni: La più bella del mondo (TV Special documentary) (written by)
    2007
    Roberto Benigni: Il quinto dell'Inferno (TV Special documentary)
    2005
    The Tiger and the Snow
    2002
    Roberto Benigni: Tutto Dante - L'ultimo del Paradiso (TV Special documentary)
    2002
    Pinocchio (screenplay) / (story by)
    1997
    Life Is Beautiful (screenplay by) / (story by)
    1996
    Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni 95/96 (Video documentary)
    1994
    The Monster (screenplay) / (story)
    1991
    Johnny Stecchino
    1988
    The Little Devil (screenplay) / (story)
    1986
    Coffee and Cigarettes (Short)
    1984
    Nothing Left to Do but Cry (screenplay) / (story)
    1983
    Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni (Documentary) (uncredited)
    1983
    You Disturb Me (screenplay) / (story)
    1979
    Seeking Asylum (collaboration)
    1978
    Vita da Cioni (TV Mini Series) (written by - 3 episodes)
    - Episode #1.3 (1978) - (written by)
    - Episode #1.2 (1978) - (written by)
    - Episode #1.1 (1978) - (written by)
    1977
    Berlinguer: I Love You (story and screenplay)
    1976
    Onda libera (TV Mini Series) (4 episodes)
    - Episode #1.4 (1977)
    - Episode #1.3 (1977)
    - Episode #1.2 (1976)
    - Episode #1.1 (1976)
    Director
    2005
    The Tiger and the Snow
    2002
    Pinocchio
    1997
    Life Is Beautiful
    1994
    The Monster
    1991
    Johnny Stecchino
    1988
    The Little Devil
    1984
    Nothing Left to Do but Cry
    1984
    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (Documentary)
    1983
    You Disturb Me
    Soundtrack
    2012
    Criança Esperança (TV Special) (writer: "La canzone di Piñocchio")
    2002
    Pinocchio (performer: "La Canzone di Pinocchio") / (writer: "La Canzone di Pinocchio")
    1996
    Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni 95/96 (Video documentary) (performer: "Quando penso a Berlusconi", "E' tutto mio", "Quanto t'ho amato", "L'inno del corpo sciolto") / (writer: "E' tutto mio", "Quanto t'ho amato", "L'inno del corpo sciolto")
    1983
    Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni (Documentary) (performer: "Vieni via con me", "L'inno del corpo sciolto") / (writer: "L'inno del corpo sciolto")
    Miscellaneous
    1997
    Life Is Beautiful (presents)
    1996
    Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni 95/96 (Video documentary) (stage director)
    Producer
    1994
    The Monster (producer)
    Thanks
    2010
    Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings (TV Movie documentary) (thanks)
    2007
    I Viceré (thanks)
    2007
    My Führer (thanks)
    2003
    Caterina in the Big City (thanks)
    1999
    Making Life Beautiful (TV Movie documentary) (special thanks)
    1989
    Mystery Train (special thanks - as Bob Benigni)
    Self
    -
    Directed By (Documentary) (completed) as
    Self
    -
    Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli Cinematographer (completed) as
    Self
    2023
    Festival di Sanremo (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Prima serata Sanremo 2023 (2023) - Self - Guest
    2021
    Hollywood Insider (TV Series) as
    Self
    - The Few Times Humorists Have Scored Academy Gold: A Short List of Comedic Oscar-Winners (2022) - Self
    - Venice Film Festival is the Protector of Cinema - CEO Pritan Ambroase's Love Letter to Venice (2021) - Self
    2021
    Leute heute (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 1 September 2021 (2021) - Self
    2021
    Alida (Documentary) as
    Self
    2020
    Paolo Conte, via con me (Documentary) as
    Self
    2020
    Arrivederci Roberto (Short) as
    Self
    2019
    Cecchi Gori (Documentary) as
    Self
    2019
    Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Leonardo Genio Universale (2019) - Self
    1998
    Cannes Film Festival (TV Series) as
    Self - Presenter / Self - Winner
    - Cérémonie de clôture du 71ème Festival de Cannes (2018) - Self - Presenter
    - Cérémonie de clôture du 51ème festival de Cannes (1998) - Self - Winner
    2018
    Le journal du Festival (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 18 May 2018 (2018) - Self
    2017
    Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary (Documentary) as
    Self
    2017
    Evviva Giuseppe (Documentary)
    2017
    La voce di Fantozzi (Documentary)
    2016
    Cinque mondi (Documentary) as
    Self
    2013
    Unici (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Francesco Guccini - L'ultima volta (2013) - Self - Guest
    2013
    Con Amore: A Passion for Rome (the Making of to Rome with Love) (Documentary short) as
    Leopoldo
    2012
    Roberto Benigni: La più bella del mondo (TV Special documentary) as
    Self
    2011
    Il più grande spettacolo dopo il weekend (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.4 (2011) - Self
    2010
    Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2009
    De schuld van VTM (TV Series) as
    Self
    - De wereld (2009) - Self
    2009
    Beckmann (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 6 April 2009 (2009) - Self
    2009
    The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Episode #5.5 (2009) - Self - Guest
    2009
    La grande librairie (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.24 (2009) - Self
    2009
    Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 25 February 2009 (2009) - Self
    2008
    La nuit des Césars (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Winner
    - 33ème nuit des Césars (2008) - Self - Winner
    2007
    Roberto Benigni: Il quinto dell'Inferno (TV Special documentary) as
    Self
    2007
    Ceremonia de clausura - 55º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV Special) as
    Self
    2006
    Corazón de... (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 30 June 2006 (2006) - Self
    - Episode dated 29 June 2006 (2006) - Self
    2006
    Wetten, dass..? (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Wetten, dass..? aus Halle an der Saale (2006) - Self
    2005
    Roberto Introduces Benigni (Documentary) as
    Self
    2005
    Rockpolitik (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.2 (2005) - Self
    2005
    La méthode Cauet (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 15 December 2005 (2005) - Self
    2005
    13 heures le journal (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 12 December 2005 (2005) - Self
    2005
    L'hebdo cinéma (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 11 December 2005 (2005) - Self
    2003
    On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 11 December 2005 (2005) - Self
    - Episode dated 14 March 2003 (2003) - Self
    2005
    Thé ou café (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 10 December 2005 (2005) - Self
    2003
    Comme au cinéma (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 22 November 2005 (2005) - Self
    - Episode dated 25 March 2003 (2003) - Self
    2003
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special (TV Special) as
    Self
    2003
    Cesare Zavattini (Documentary) as
    Self
    1998
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Roberto Benigni/Delbert McClinton (2002) - Self - Guest
    - Salma Hayek/Roberto Benigni/Shemekia Copeland (1998) - Self - Guest
    2002
    Roberto Benigni: Tutto Dante - L'ultimo del Paradiso (TV Special documentary) as
    Self
    1993
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) as
    Self / Self - Guest
    - Episode #10.211 (2002) - Self
    - Episode #7.13 (1999) - Self
    - Episode #6.220 (1998) - Self - Guest
    - Episode #4.143 (1996) - Self
    - Episode #2.127 (1993) - Self
    2002
    The 74th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self
    2002
    Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (Documentary) as
    Self
    2001
    La strana coppia. Incontro con Age e Scarpelli (Documentary) as
    Self
    2000
    Ferreri, I Love You (Documentary)
    2000
    Maldito lunes (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.1 (2000) - Self
    2000
    The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    2000
    6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1999
    Astérix et Obélix contre César: L'envers du décor (Video documentary short) as
    Self / Detritus (uncredited)
    1999
    Drôles, tendre et méchants: La comédie à l'italienne de Totò à Roberto Benigni (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1999
    Making Life Beautiful (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1999
    The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self
    1999
    Jet 7 (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 11 July 1999 (1999) - Self
    1999
    O Amigo Público (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 13 April 1999 (1999) - Self
    1999
    HARDtalk (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Roberto Benigni (1999) - Self
    1999
    The 71st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Winner: Best Foreign Language Film / Best Actor in a Leading Role / Nominated: Best Original Screenplay / ...
    1999
    Continuarà... (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 19 March 1999 (1999) - Self
    1999
    5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Winner & Nominee
    1999
    The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 2 March 1999 (1999) - Self
    1999
    60 Minutes (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Actor & Director (segment "Roberto Benigni")
    - The Lobbyist/Roberto Benigni/Choosing Life (1999) - Self - Actor & Director (segment "Roberto Benigni")
    1999
    Vivement dimanche prochain (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 31 January 1999 (1999) - Self
    1999
    The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1998
    Risposte senza domande: Roberto Benigni (Video documentary short) as
    Self
    1998
    Vivement dimanche (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Elie Semoun 1 (1998) - Self
    1998
    Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 19 October 1998 (1998) - Self
    1998
    Bouillon de culture (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Contre la haine (1998) - Self
    1998
    Siskel & Ebert (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Godzilla/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/Bulworth/The Horse Whisperer (1998) - Self
    1998
    Signé croisette (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 24 May 1998 (1998) - Self
    - Episode dated 17 May 1998 (1998) - Self
    1997
    Le Nouveau Désert (Carnet Filmé: 29 octobre 1996 - 31 décembre 1998) (Documentary) as
    Self
    1996
    Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni 95/96 (Video documentary) as
    Self
    1995
    Willemsens Woche (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 2 June 1995 (1995) - Self
    1995
    Coucou c'est nous! (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 7 April 1995 (1995) - Self
    1995
    Studio Gabriel (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 22 March 1995 (1995) - Self
    1986
    Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest / Self
    - Episode dated 6 October 1992 (1992) - Self - Guest
    - Episode #5.116 (1986) - Self
    1990
    Towards the Moon with Fellini (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1988
    Fantastico 9 (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 1 October 1988 (1988) - Self
    1987
    Cinema 3 (TV Series) as
    Self - Interviewee
    - Episode dated 29 June 1987 (1987) - Self - Interviewee
    1987
    Gran premio internazionale della TV (TV Series) as
    Self - Performer
    - 4th edition (1987) - Self - Performer
    1987
    Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Episode dated 26 January 1987 (1987) - Self - Guest
    1986
    Acteur studio (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 10 November 1986 (1986) - Self
    1986
    Cinématon (TV Series documentary) as
    Self / Cinéaste - Comédien
    - N°801 Roberto Benigni (1986) - Self / Cinéaste - Comédien
    1985
    Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (Documentary)
    1984
    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (Documentary) as
    Self
    1983
    Effetti personali (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1983
    Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni (Documentary) as
    Self
    1980
    Il resto del Pap'occhio (Video) as
    Self
    Archive Footage
    2023
    I magnifici 4 della risata (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2022
    Double Toasted (Podcast Series) as
    Self
    - PINOCCHIO (2002) BAD MOVIE ROAST (2022) - Self
    2022
    Sale el Sol (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.1416 (2022) - Self
    2020
    Fellini of the Spirits (Documentary) as
    Self
    2020
    70 Jahre Berlinale (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Zeiten ändern sich (2020) - Self
    - Stars (2020) - Self
    2019
    Untouchable (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2018
    Tarantino: surcoté? (Video documentary) as
    Self
    2017
    The Oscars (TV Special) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2016
    The Last Laugh (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1999
    60 Minutes (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Actor (segment "Bob Simon") / Self - Actor / Self - Actor & Director (segment "Roberto Benigni")
    - Remembering Bob Simon (2015) - Self - Actor (segment "Bob Simon")
    - 35 Years and 60 Minutes (2003) - Self - Actor
    - The Magdalen Laundries/Roberto Benigni/Heaven on Earth? (1999) - Self - Actor & Director (segment "Roberto Benigni")
    2014
    Les Cinématons à Milan (Carnet Filmé: 31 octobre 2014) (Documentary) as
    Self
    2014
    Poltrone rosse - Parma e il cinema (Documentary) as
    Self
    2014
    Bande-Annonce Cinématon (Video documentary short) as
    Self
    2014
    And the Oscar Goes to... (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2013
    Massimo racconta Troisi (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2012
    Pascal Pistone met en musique 20 Cinématons au cinema Lanteri de Pise (Carnet Filmé: 30 novembre 2012) (Documentary) as
    Self
    2012
    Close Up (Documentary) as
    Self
    2011
    Zaum - Andare a parare (TV Series documentary) as
    Ivo Salvini
    - Catastrionfo (2011) - Ivo Salvini (uncredited)
    2011
    Silvio Forever (Documentary) as
    Self
    2008
    Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV Special) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2008
    Los 10 magníficos (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Jim Jarmusch (2008) - Self (uncredited)
    2008
    Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2007
    Quelli che... il calcio (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #15.13 (2007) - Self
    - Episode #14.39 (2007) - Self
    2007
    Personnel et confidentiel (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires (2007) - Self
    2005
    Cinema mil (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.2 (2005) - Self
    2005
    Horst Buchholz... mein Papa (Documentary) as
    Guido Orefice (uncredited)
    2004
    Épreuves d'artistes (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2003
    Sendung ohne Namen (TV Series) as
    Pinocchio
    - Lügen (2003) - Pinocchio
    2002
    The Magic of Fellini (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2002
    Zones Césariennes (Carnet Filmé: 1er janvier 2002 - 31 décembre 2002) (Documentary) as
    Self
    2002
    Heart of the Festival (TV Movie) as
    Self
    2002
    Who Is Alan Smithee? (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2001
    2000 Cinématons (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2001
    Cinématé avec Roberto Benigni (Short documentary) as
    Self
    2000
    XIV premios Goya (TV Special) as
    Guido Orefice

    References

    Roberto Benigni Wikipedia


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