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Nanni Loy

Directing Born Oct 23, 1925 Cagliari, Italy 10 credits

Biography

Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director. Specifically, Nanni Loy was Sardinian, and one of several notable Sardinian film makers, including Franco Solinas.

Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia: his father was Guglielmo Loy-Donà, a lawyer issue from a distinguished Sardinian-Venetian family, and his mother was the noblewoman Donna Anna Sanjust of the Marquesses of Neoneli. Rosetta Loy, an Italian novelist, is his sister-in-law.

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Known for

Film

Disobedience

as Il professore

Full filmography

  • Disobedience (1981) as Il professore
  • Complexes (1965) as Self (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone")
  • Troubleshooters (1971) as Charles Varèse
  • Three Tigers Against Three Tigers (1977) as se stesso
  • Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi (1972) as DC politician
  • Il Tappabuchi (1967)
  • Beautiful Families (1964) as Umberto
  • Fantasia Among the Squares (1971) as Dr. Severance
  • The True Life of Antonio H. (1994) as Self
  • Open Letter to the Evening News (1970)