Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/23/1925
Place of Birth
Cagliari, Italy
Also Known As
Gianni LoyGiovanni LoiНанни Лой
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.
Known For
Disobedience
as Il professore
Complexes
as Self (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone")
Troubleshooters
as Charles Varèse
Beautiful Families
as Umberto
Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi
as DC politician
Fantasia Among the Squares
as Dr. Severance
The True Life of Antonio H.
as Self
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
as se stesso
Open Letter to the Evening News
Unknown Role