Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
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Movie | Ennio | Self | 2022-02-17 |
Movie | Everything You Want | Giorgio | 2017-05-11 |
Movie | Raccontare Venezia | Self | 2017-08-31 |
Movie | Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts | Self - Filmmaker | 2017-06-14 |
Movie | L'abbiamo fatta grossa | Generale | 2016-01-28 |
Movie | The Haunting of Helena | 2013-01-14 | |
Movie | Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni | Self | 2012-11-10 |
Movie | Voi siete qui | Self | 2011-09-08 |
Movie | Flaiano: il meglio è passato | Himself | 2010-04-01 |
Movie | Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things | Self | 2006-03-08 |
Movie | Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds | Self | 2006-02-19 |
Movie | The Caiman | Franco Caspio | 2006-03-24 |
Movie | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self | 2005-07-17 |
Movie | Celluloide | Civalleri (uncredited) | 1996-01-26 |
Movie | Un eroe borghese | governatore Banca d'Italia | 1995-03-03 |
Movie | The Long Silence | Procuratore Capo | 1993-03-19 |
Movie | The Assassin | 1961-04-01 | |
Movie | The Doll that Took the Town | 1957-02-06 | |
Movie | The Most Wonderful Moment | Don Grazzini | 1957-03-21 |
Movie | Abandoned | Scattered Soldier from Tuscany | 1955-09-07 |
Movie | Chronicle of Poor Lovers | Alfredo Campolmi | 1954-02-19 |
Movie | High School | Professore di religione | 1954-04-01 |
Movie | La cieca di Sorrento | Don Pietro Lisandrini | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | At the Edge of the City | don Antonio | 1953-10-16 |
Movie | Attention! Bandits! | Lorenzo | 1951-11-10 |
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