Career
Born in Pistoia, in 1958 Pagliai enrolled at the Accademia Nazionale d"Arte Drammatica, starting his career on stage in the early 1960s. He became first known in 1969, thanks to the Giuseppe Fina"s critically acclaimed stage play Ross. In 1971 he got a major success as the lead actor of the Daniele Doctorate"Anza"s miniseries Il segno del comando, and then appeared in a number of other successful Radiotelevisione Italiana television-series, often directed by the same Doctorate"Anza.