Gianni Bonagura

Gianni Bonagura (born 27 October 1925) is an Italian film, stage, television and radio actor and a voice actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1950 and 2001.

Born in Milan as Gianfelice Bonagura, he arrived at the threshold of a degree in philosophy, then 1946 he abandoned his studies to attend the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica. Essentially a stage actor, Bonagura became popular in the second half of fifties as a radio actor, protagonist of vignettes together with Nino Manfredi and Paolo Ferrari. In cinema and television, he was only used as a character actor, with the exception of the role of Dr. Watson in the 1968 RAI television series Sherlock Holmes.

• Against the Law (1950)
• Fugitive in Trieste (1951)
• Susanna Whipped Cream (1957)
• The Employee (1959)
• Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1960)
• Behind Closed Doors (1961)
• Damon and Pythias (1962)
• Le pillole di Ercole (1962)
• I cuori infranti (1963)
• Sherlock Holmes (1968)
• In Prison Awaiting Trial (1971)
• My Darling Slave (1973)
• The Great Kidnapping (1973)
• Sex Pot (1975)
• Segni particolari: bellissimo (1983)
• I Am an ESP (1985)
• Grandi magazzini (1986)
• In the Name of the Sovereign People (1990)
• Tre colonne in cronaca (1990)
• Ferdinando and Carolina (1999)
• Padre Pio: Miracle Man (2000)