Directing · Genoa, Liguria, Italy · Born February 22, 1930
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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MovieVolonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
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MovieOne Hour Only
2023
as Giuliano
MovieSergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
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MovieEnnio
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MovieVera & Giuliano
2020
MovieThe Legal Death
2018
MovieTonino
2017
as Self
MovieRaccontare Venezia
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as Self
MovieCinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
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as Self - Filmmaker
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as Giorgio
MovieWater and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
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as Self
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2016
as Generale
MovieIl segreto di Otello
2015
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MovieThe Haunting of Helena
2013
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MovieThe Years of Lost Images
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2011
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as Self
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as Self
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2010
as Himself
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2009
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2007
as Self
MovieThe Caiman
2006
as Franco Caspio
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as Self
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2005
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2004
as Self - Interviewee
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2004
MovieCelluloide
1996
as Civalleri (uncredited)
MovieUn eroe borghese
1995
as Roberto Calvi
MovieThe Long Silence
1993
as Procuratore Capo
TVCinecittà Cinecittà
1985
as Director #2
MovieThe Assassin
1961
MovieThe Most Wonderful Moment
1957
as Don Grazzini
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1957
MovieAbandoned
1955
as Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
MovieThe Girls of San Frediano
1955
as Venturini
MovieHigh School
1954
as Professore di religione
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1954
as Alfredo Campolmi
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1953
as don Antonio
MovieThe Blind Woman of Sorrento
1953
as Don Pietro Lisandrini
MovieAttention! Bandits!
1951
as Lorenzo
