Sound
Armando Trovajoli
IT, EN, FR, AR cinema · 209 credits
Born
2 September 1917
Died
28 February 2013 (aged 95)
Birthplace
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Also known as Francis Berman · Armando Torovaioli · Armando Tovaioli · Armando Trovadoli · A. Trovaioli · Armando Trovaioli
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
Filmography
Marcello, una vita dolce
as Self, Music
La notte di Pasquino
Original Music Composer
People of Rome
Original Music Composer
Unfair Competition
Original Music Composer
Rugantino
Original Music Composer
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Original Music Composer
The Story of a Poor Young Man
Original Music Composer
Mario, Maria and Mario
Original Music Composer
Berlin '39
Original Music Composer
Gangsters
Original Music Composer
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Original Music Composer
Centro storico
Original Music Composer
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Original Music Composer
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Original Music Composer
What Time Is It?
Original Music Composer
Splendor
Music
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Original Music Composer
Miss Arizona
Original Music Composer
The Family
Original Music Composer
Macaroni
Original Music Composer
Frankenstein 90
Original Music Composer
Sing Sing
Original Music Composer
Le Bal
Music Consultant
Dagger Eyes
Original Music Composer
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Original Music Composer
Viuuulentemente mia
Original Music Composer
Count Tacchia
Original Music Composer
That Night of Varennes
Original Music Composer
The Balad of Mamelouk
Original Music Composer
More Beautiful Than Me You Die
Original Music Composer
The Paramedic
Original Music Composer
Passion of Love
Original Music Composer
Arrivano i bersaglieri
Original Music Composer
The Terrace
Original Music Composer
La amante ingenua
Original Music Composer
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot
Original Music Composer
Life Is Beautiful
Original Music Composer
The Swap
Music
My Loves
Original Music Composer
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Original Music Composer
A Special Day
Original Music Composer
The New Monsters
Original Music Composer
In the Name of the Pope King
Original Music Composer
The Bishop's Bedroom
Original Music Composer
Wifemistress
Original Music Composer
The Career of a Chambermaid
Original Music Composer
Luna di miele in tre
Original Music Composer
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Original Music Composer
Keep It To Yourself!
Original Music Composer
Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Original Music Composer
Blackmail Chase
Original Music Composer
Shadows in an Empty Room
Original Music Composer
Duck in Orange Sauce
Original Music Composer
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Original Music Composer
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Original Music Composer
The Way of the Baboons
Original Music Composer
Scent of a Woman
Original Music Composer
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Original Music Composer
The Sensual Man
Original Music Composer
La Tosca
Original Music Composer
Rugantino
Original Music Composer
How Funny Can Sex Be?
Original Music Composer
It Was I
Music
The Italian Connection
Original Music Composer
The Valachi Papers
Original Music Composer
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Original Music Composer
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Original Music Composer
My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
Original Music Composer
The Double
Original Music Composer
That's How We Women Are
Original Music Composer
The Priest's Wife
Original Music Composer
The Married Priest
Original Music Composer
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
Original Music Composer
I See Naked
Original Music Composer
Where Are You Going All Naked?
Original Music Composer
The Conspirators
Original Music Composer
Police Chief Pepe
Original Music Composer
Lovemaker
Original Music Composer
Normal Young Man
Original Music Composer
How, When, and with Whom
Original Music Composer
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
Original Music Composer
Seven Times Seven
Original Music Composer
Faustina
Original Music Composer
The Libertine
Original Music Composer
The Prophet
Original Music Composer
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Original Music Composer
Fuller Report, Base Stockholm
Original Music Composer
Acid Delirium of the Senses
Original Music Composer
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Original Music Composer
Anyone Can Play
Original Music Composer
Deadly Sweet
Original Music Composer
Long Days of Vengeance
Original Music Composer
Assault on the State Treasure
Original Music Composer
Don Juan in Sicily
Original Music Composer
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
Original Music Composer
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Original Music Composer
The Spy Who Loved Flowers
Original Music Composer
Adultery Italian Style
Original Music Composer
Our Husbands
Original Music Composer
The Devil in Love
Original Music Composer
The Queens
Original Music Composer
Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Original Music Composer
Complexes
as Self (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone") (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Conductor
Casanova '70
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Violence and Love
Compositor, Original Music Composer
The Dolls
Original Music Composer
Assassination in Rome
Original Music Composer
Marriage Italian Style
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Let's Talk About Women
Original Music Composer
Il gaucho
Original Music Composer
High Infidelity
Original Music Composer
The Magnificent Cuckold
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Thursday
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Beautiful Families
Original Music Composer
My Wife
Original Music Composer
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Original Music Composer
Attack and Retreat
Original Music Composer
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
as Giorgio Ferrario, Original Music Composer, Music Director
Gli onorevoli
Original Music Composer
The Monk of Monza
Original Music Composer
The Monsters
Original Music Composer
In Italia si chiama amore
Original Music Composer
The Visitor
Original Music Composer
Totò sexy
Original Music Composer
I terribili sette
Original Music Composer
Always on Sunday
Sound, Original Music Composer
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Four Monks
Original Music Composer
Warriors Five
Original Music Composer
Toto at Night
Original Music Composer
Il mio amico Benito
Original Music Composer
Alone Against Rome
Original Music Composer
Boccaccio '70
Original Music Composer
Planets Around Us
Original Music Composer
The Giant of Metropolis
Original Music Composer
His Women
Original Music Composer
Ten Italians for One German
Original Music Composer
Ghosts of Rome
Conductor
The Orderly
Original Music Composer
Fists, Girls and Sailors
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
Original Music Composer
The Girl of a Thousand Months
Original Music Composer
The Grand Olympics
Original Music Composer
Hercules in the Haunted World
Original Music Composer
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Original Music Composer
A Soldier and a Half
Original Music Composer
Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Il corazziere
Original Music Composer
I piaceri dello scapolo
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Atom Age Vampire
Original Music Composer
Two Women
Original Music Composer
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Original Music Composer
Little Girls and High Finance
Original Music Composer
La Dolce Vita
Music Arranger
The Widower
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Poor Millionaires
Original Music Composer
La cento chilometri
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Winter Holidays
Original Music Composer
A qualcuna piace calvo
Original Music Composer
Uncle Was a Vampire
Original Music Composer, Music Director
Camping
Original Music Composer
Il cocco di mamma
Original Music Composer
Caravan of songs
Conductor
Bravissimo
Conductor
The Prince with the Red Mask
Original Music Composer
Le Amiche
Musician
A Day in Court
Original Music Composer
Two Nights with Cleopatra
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Of Life and Love
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Woman of the River
Original Music Composer
Funniest Show on Earth
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Era lei che lo voleva!
Original Music Composer
The Unfaithfuls
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Girls Marked Danger
Original Music Composer