Nanni Loy

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.

Directed

1. My Friends Act III (1985) — Director
2. Fiasco in Milan (1959) — Director
3. Why (1971) — Director
4. Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) — Director
5. Café Express (1980) — Director
6. The Four Days of Naples (1962) — Director
7. Where's Picone? (1984) — Director
8. Il marito (1958) — Director
9. The Head of the Family (1967) — Director
10. Strange Occasion (1976) — Director
11. Package, Double Package and Counterpackage (1993) — Director
12. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (1982) — Director
13. Made in Italy (1965) — Director
14. Keep It To Yourself! (1976) — Director
15. Scugnizzi (1989) — Director
16. I'll Fix America and Be Right Back (1974) — Director
17. A Day for Lionhearts (1961) — Director
18. Operation Snafu (1970) — Director
19. Parola di ladro (1957) — Director
20. Gioco di società (1990) — Director
21. A che punto è la notte (1994) — Director
22. Rome, November 12, 1994 (1995) — Director
23. Sabatoventiquattromarzo (1984) — Director

Also appeared in

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