Armando Trovajoli

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1917-09-02

Deathday 2013-02-28 (95 years old)

Place of Birth Rome, Lazio, Italy

Also Known As Francis Berman, Armando Torovaioli, Armando Tovaioli, Armando Trovadoli, A. Trovaioli, Armando Trovaioli, R. Vatro, Roman Vatro, Armando Trovajoli, A. Trovajoli

Armando Trovajoli

Biography

Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of Boccaccio '70. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola. Trovajoli was the husband of actress Pier Angeli. He died in Rome at the age of 95 on 28 February 2013. After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1948), Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra, set with 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, harp, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, drums and the piano (played by Trovajoli himself). In 1952–53 he collaborated with Piero Piccioni in Eclipse, a weekly musical broadcast in which the orchestra is directed alternately by the two composers, in a style extremely refined and sophisticated, very different from the music of radio orchestras at that time. Together with Goffredo Petrassi, Trovajoli composed the score of Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949). In 1951, Trovajoli was invited by Dino De Laurentiis to write music for Anna, a film directed by Alberto Lattuada: particularly the song El Negro Zumbón became an international success: inspired by tropical rhythms, is sung in playback and danced by Silvana Mangano, but actually performed by Flo Sandon's. Since then, Trovajoli wrote soundtracks for directors as Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola and others, for a total of over 300 scores. Source: Article "Armando Trovajoli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Sound

2004
2003
La notte di Pasquino

as Original Music Composer

2001
Unfair Competition

as Original Music Composer

1998
Rugantino

as Original Music Composer

1998
The Dinner

as Music

1997
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

as Original Music Composer

1996
1995
The Story of a Poor Young Man

as Original Music Composer

1993
Mario, Maria and Mario

as Original Music Composer

1993
Berlin '39

as Original Music Composer

1992
Gangsters

as Original Music Composer

1992
Cinecittà Cinecittà

as Original Music Composer

1992
Centro storico

as Original Music Composer

1991
The Wicked

as Music

1990
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa

as Original Music Composer

1989
What Time Is It?

as Original Music Composer

1989
Splendor

as Music

1989
Running Away

as Music

1988
Days of Inspector Ambrosio

as Original Music Composer

1988
Miss Arizona

as Original Music Composer

1987
The Family

as Original Music Composer

1985
Macaroni

as Original Music Composer

1984
Frankenstein 90

as Original Music Composer

1983
Mystère

as Music

1983
Sing Sing

as Original Music Composer

1982
Grand Hotel Excelsior

as Original Music Composer

1982
Viuuulentemente mia

as Original Music Composer

1982
The Paramedic

as Music

1982
Count Tacchia

as Original Music Composer

1982
The Night of Varennes

as Original Music Composer

1982
The Balad of Mamelouk

as Original Music Composer

1981
Passion of Love

as Original Music Composer

1980
Arrivano i bersaglieri

as Original Music Composer

1980
The Terrace

as Original Music Composer

1980
La amante ingenua

as Original Music Composer

1979
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot

as Original Music Composer

1979
Life Is Beautiful

as Original Music Composer

1979
The Swap

as Music

1978
My Loves

as Original Music Composer

1978
Rugantino

as Music

1977
A Special Day

as Original Music Composer

1977
The New Monsters

as Original Music Composer

1977
In the Name of the Pope King

as Original Music Composer

1977
The Bishop's Bedroom

as Original Music Composer

1977
Wifemistress

as Original Music Composer

1976
The Career of a Chambermaid

as Original Music Composer

1976
Luna di miele in tre

as Original Music Composer

1976
1976
Ugly, Dirty and Bad

as Original Music Composer

1976
Keep It To Yourself!

as Original Music Composer

1976
Dimmi che fai tutto per me

as Original Music Composer

1976
Blackmail Chase

as Original Music Composer

1976
Shadows in an Empty Room

as Original Music Composer

1976
Evil Thoughts

as Music

1975
Duck in Orange Sauce

as Original Music Composer

1975
Valentina... The Virgin Wife

as Original Music Composer

1974
We All Loved Each Other So Much

as Original Music Composer

1974
The Way of the Baboons

as Original Music Composer

1974
Scent of a Woman

as Original Music Composer

1973
The Sensual Man

as Original Music Composer

1973
La Tosca

as Original Music Composer

1973
Rugantino

as Original Music Composer

1973
1973
How Funny Can Sex Be?

as Original Music Composer

1973
It Was I

as Music

1972
1972
The Italian Connection

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Valachi Papers

as Original Music Composer

1971
No One Will Notice You're Naked

as Original Music Composer

1971
Homo Eroticus

as Music

1971
My Name Is Rocco Papaleo

as Original Music Composer

1971
The Double

as Original Music Composer

1970
The Priest's Wife

as Original Music Composer

1970
May Morning

as Music

1970
The Married Priest

as Original Music Composer

1969
I See Naked

as Original Music Composer

1969
Where Are You Going All Naked?

as Original Music Composer

1969
The Conspirators

as Original Music Composer

1969
Police Chief Pepe

as Original Music Composer

1969
Lovemaker

as Original Music Composer

1969
Il giovane normale

as Original Music Composer

1969
How, When, and with Whom

as Original Music Composer

1969
1968
Seven Times Seven

as Original Music Composer

1968
Faustina

as Original Music Composer

1968
The Libertine

as Original Music Composer

1968
The Prophet

as Original Music Composer

1968
1968
Fuller Report, Base Stockholm

as Original Music Composer

1968
Acid Delirium of the Senses

as Original Music Composer

1968
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses

as Original Music Composer

1968
La famiglia Benvenuti

as Original Music Composer

1967
Anyone Can Play

as Original Music Composer

1967
Deadly Sweet

as Original Music Composer

1967
Long Days of Vengeance

as Original Music Composer

1967
Assault on the State Treasure

as Original Music Composer

1967
Don Juan in Sicily

as Original Music Composer

1967
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

as Original Music Composer

1966
The Treasure of San Gennaro

as Original Music Composer

1966
The Spy Who Loved Flowers

as Original Music Composer

1966
Adultery Italian Style

as Original Music Composer

1966
Our Husbands

as Original Music Composer

1966
The Devil in Love

as Original Music Composer

1966
1966
The Queens

as Original Music Composer

1965
Casanova '70

as Original Music Composer

1965
Complexes

as Original Music Composer

1965
Complexes

as Conductor

1965
Casanova '70

as Conductor

1965
The Dolls

as Original Music Composer

1965
Assassination in Rome

as Original Music Composer

1964
Marriage Italian Style

as Original Music Composer

1964
1964
Let's Talk About Women

as Original Music Composer

1964
Il gaucho

as Original Music Composer

1964
High Infidelity

as Original Music Composer

1964
The Magnificent Cuckold

as Original Music Composer

1964
The Thursday

as Original Music Composer

1964
The Thursday

as Conductor

1964
Beautiful Families

as Original Music Composer

1964
My Wife

as Original Music Composer

1964
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?

as Original Music Composer

1964
1964
1964
Attack and Retreat

as Original Music Composer

1963
Gli onorevoli

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Monk of Monza

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Monsters

as Original Music Composer

1963
In Italia si chiama amore

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Scapegoat

as Music

1963
The Visitor

as Original Music Composer

1963
Totò Sexy

as Original Music Composer

1963
I terribili sette

as Original Music Composer

1963
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

as Original Music Composer

1963
1962
1962
The Four Monks

as Original Music Composer

1962
Warriors Five

as Original Music Composer

1962
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

as Original Music Composer

1962
Toto at Night

as Original Music Composer

1962
Il mio amico Benito

as Original Music Composer

1962
Alone Against Rome

as Original Music Composer

1962
Boccaccio '70

as Original Music Composer

1962
1962
Planets Around Us

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Giant of Metropolis

as Original Music Composer

1961
His Women

as Original Music Composer

1961
Ten Italians for One German

as Original Music Composer

1961
Ghosts of Rome

as Conductor

1961
The Orderly

as Original Music Composer

1961
Pugni, pupe e marinai

as Original Music Composer

1961
1961
Laura nuda

as Music

1961
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Girl of a Thousand Months

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Grand Olympics

as Original Music Composer

1961
Hercules in the Haunted World

as Original Music Composer

1961
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules

as Original Music Composer

1961
Slave of Rome

as Music

1960
Un militare e mezzo

as Original Music Composer

1960
Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan

as Original Music Composer

1960
Il corazziere

as Original Music Composer

1960
I piaceri dello scapolo

as Original Music Composer

1960
1960
Atom Age Vampire

as Original Music Composer

1960
Two Women

as Original Music Composer

1960
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

as Original Music Composer

1960
Little Girls and High Finance

as Original Music Composer

1960
La Dolce Vita

as Music Arranger

1959
The Widower

as Conductor

1959
Poor Millionaires

as Original Music Composer

1959
La cento chilometri

as Original Music Composer

1959
La cento chilometri

as Conductor

1959
Winter Holidays

as Original Music Composer

1959
A qualcuna piace calvo

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Widower

as Original Music Composer

1959
Uncle Was a Vampire

as Original Music Composer

1959
Uncle Was a Vampire

as Music Director

1958
Camping

as Original Music Composer

1957
Il cocco di mamma

as Original Music Composer

1957
1955
Caravan of songs

as Conductor

1955
Bravissimo

as Conductor

1955
The Prince with the Red Mask

as Original Music Composer

1955
Le Amiche

as Musician

1954
A Day in Court

as Original Music Composer

1954
Two Nights with Cleopatra

as Original Music Composer

1954
1954
Of Life and Love

as Original Music Composer

1954
Of Life and Love

as Conductor

1954
Woman of the River

as Original Music Composer

1953
1953
Era lei che lo voleva!

as Original Music Composer

1953
The Unfaithfuls

as Conductor

1953
The Unfaithfuls

as Original Music Composer

1953
Funniest Show on Earth

as Original Music Composer

1952
1952
Girls Marked Danger

as Original Music Composer

Actor

1965
Complexes

as Self (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone") (uncredited)

1963
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

as Giorgio Ferrario

Crew

1965
La violenza e l'amore

as Compositor