Amerigo Armando Gilberto Govi (Italian pronunciation: [d?il'b?rto 'g??vi]; 22 October 1885 – 28 April 1966) was an Italian film and stage actor and screenwriter.
He was the founder of the Genoese Dialectal Theatre.Among his greatest successes were I manezzi pe majâ na figgia (I maneggi per maritare una figlia, "How to marry off one's daughter"), Pignasecca e Pignaverde ("Dry Pinecone and Green Pinecone") and Colpi di Timone ("Rudder blows").
Also famous in Italy, especially Genoa and Liguria, are Quello bonanima ("The one who had a good soul"), Gildo Peragallo, ingegnere ("Gildo Peragallo, engineer"), I Gustavino e i Passalacqua ("The Gustavinos and the Passalacquas") and Sotto a chi tocca ("Who's next?").