---
name: "Luigi Ornaghi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/luigi-ornaghi"
fi1m_id: "luigi-ornaghi"
imdb_id: "nm0650293"
tmdb_id: 1037917
wikidata_id: "Q3839957"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 December 1931"
died: "10 December 2006"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:28:45.627784+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Luigi Ornaghi

## Identity

Luigi Ornaghi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/luigi-ornaghi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** luigi-ornaghi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0650293
- **TMDB ID:** 1037917
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3839957
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ornaghi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3839957, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0650293/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1037917

Actor. Born 9 December 1931 in Treviglio, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. Died 10 December 2006.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 December 1931, Treviglio, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
- **Died:** 10 December 2006
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ornaghi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3839957, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0650293/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1037917

## Biography

Luigi Ornaghi (9 December 1931 – 10 December 2006) was an Italian farmer and non-professional actor from Treviglio, Lombardy. He lived and worked in the fields in the hamlet of Castel Cerreto for most of his life.

Ornaghi was chosen by director Ermanno Olmi to play the lead role of Batistì in the 1978 film *The Tree of Wooden Clogs*, which was cast entirely with local farmers. He later made a brief appearance, again as Batistì, in Maurizio Nichetti’s *Ratataplan* (1979). In 1995 he reprised the role in a hardcore parody film, which drew strong criticism from Olmi.

Ornaghi continued working as a farmer until his death from a heart attack while in the fields.

*Sources: it.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Tree of Wooden Clogs* (1978), Fi1m 89, as Batistì — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tree-of-wooden-clogs.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *L'albero delle zoccole* (1995), Actor
- *The Tree of Wooden Clogs* (1978), as Batistì — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tree-of-wooden-clogs.md)

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