Biography
Raimondo Vianello (7 May 1922 – 15 April 2010) was an Italian film actor, comedian, and television host. He was a well-known Italian television personality. He was born in Rome, but spent his youth in Pula, where his father, an Admiral of the Regia Marina, directed the local naval academy.During World War II he joined the Italian Social Republic, the fascist puppet state established in northern Italy after the Allied invasion of Italy. He was captured by American troops. In 1958 he met actress Sandra Mondaini, whom he married four years later, and with whom he frequently appeared in TV shows during his whole career.
His first famous partner on the small screen was Ugo Tognazzi with whom, starting from 1954, he hosted the satyrical show Un due tre; the show was halted in 1959 after the duo performed an ironical sketch about the then-president of the Republic, Giovanni Gronchi. Vianello then moved full-time to cinema, appearing in a total of 79 films between 1947 and 1968. In the 1970s he returned to RAI (the Italian state broadcasting company, then the only one existing) with a series of Saturday shows which made him and Mondaini extremely popular as hosts and authors of sketches. During his TV career Vianello also hosted quiz shows, such as Zig Zag and Il gioco del 9 on Canale 5; he also hosted the 1998 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival and, from 1991 to 1999, Pressing, Mediaset's Sunday night sports talk show.His best-known and long-lasting TV programme, Casa Vianello, was a sitcom shot from 1988 to 2008 and broadcast by Mediaset channels Canale 5 and later moved to Rete 4, in which he and Mondaini played fictionalised versions of themselves.
He died at the San Raffaele Hospital of kidney failure in Milan on 15 April 2010 at the age of 87. His wife Sandra Mondaini died on 21 September 2010, in San Raffaele hospital in Milan, 5 months after he died.
Filmography
all 101
Movies 93
self 11
Writer 11
TV Shows 8
Screenplay 2
Producer 1
Portrait Of My Father (2010)
Crociera Vianello (2008)
I misteri di Cascina Vianello (1997)
Cascina Vianello (1996)
Il meglio di casa Vianello (1988)
Casa Vianello (1988)
I camionisti (1982)
Sbirulino (1982)
The Nosy One (1981)
Prickly Pears (1980)
Love in 4 Easy Lessons (1976)
Domenica In (1976)
Il gatto mammone (1975)
Tante scuse (1974)
The Household (1974)
Playing the Field (1974)
My Darling Slave (1973)
The Terror with Cross-Eyes (1972)
The Migratory Bird (1972)
Armiamoci e partite! (1971)
No One Will Notice You're Naked (1971)
Transplant (1970)
Seven Times Seven (1968)
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows (1968)
Granada, addio! (1967)
Riderà! - Cuore matto (1967)
Il Tappabuchi (1967)
Il vostro super agente Flit (1966)
Ringo and Gringo Against All (1966)
For a Few Dollars Less (1966)
You'll See Me Returning (1966)
How Do I Love You? (1966)
7 Golden Monks (1966)
Love Italian Style (1966)
Spiaggia libera (1966)
Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965)
Veneri in collegio (1965)
The Sons of the Leopard (1965)
Letti sbagliati (1965)
Veneri al sole (1964)
Twins from Texas (1964)
Easy Love (1964)
Risate all'italiana (1964)
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964)
Queste pazze, pazze donne (1964)
The Maniacs (1964)
Le tardone (1964)
Heroes of the West (1963)
Follie d'estate (1963)
The Swindlers (1963)
Siamo tutti pomicioni (1963)
Le motorizzate (1963)
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella (1963)
The Shortest Day (1963)
Gli italiani e le donne (1962)
Vino, whisky e acqua salata (1962)
Two Against All (1962)
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo (1962)
I tre nemici (1962)
Totò diabolicus (1962)
Una domenica d'estate (1962)
His Women (1961)
Gerarchi si muore (1961)
Pugni, pupe e marinai (1961)
I magnifici tre (1961)
The Girl of a Thousand Months (1961)
Hercules in the Valley of Woe (1961)
5 marines per 100 ragazze (1961)
Bellezze sulla spiaggia (1961)
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
Scandali al mare (1961)
Psycosissimo (1961)
La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo (1961)
Le ambiziose (1961)
Cacciatori di dote (1961)
Ferragosto in Bikini (1960)
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti (1960)
We Like It Cold (1960)
Caccia al marito (1960)
My Pal, Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Il principe fusto (1960)
Tu che ne dici? (1960)
La cambiale (1959)
La duchessa di Santa Lucia (1959)
Guardatele ma non toccatele (1959)
Noi siamo 2 evasi (1959)
Non perdiamo la testa (1959)
Il nemico di mia moglie (1959)
Marinai, donne e guai (1958)
Mia nonna poliziotto (1958)
La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955)
Aces to the fore (1954)
Singing Café (1954)
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere! (1954)
Noi due soli (1952)
The Lucky Five (1952)
Poppy (1952)
Napoleone (1951)
Sanremo Music Festival (1951)
Fifa e arena (1948)
I due orfanelli (1947)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1922-05-07
Deathday2010-04-15 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
RelationshipsSandra Mondaini (1962-01-01 - 2010-01-01)
RelativesAlberto Vianello, Edoardo Vianello
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
ResidencesMilano Due, Italy
Also Known AsRaimondo Viani, Riccardo Vianello
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Italian Republic
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