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.
Movie | Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces | Self | 2024-09-23 |
Movie | Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi? | Self | 2023-02-23 |
Movie | Un'ora sola | Giuliano | 2023-09-14 |
Movie | Ennio | Self | 2022-02-17 |
Movie | Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America | Self | 2022-10-20 |
Movie | Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts | Self - Filmmaker | 2017-06-14 |
Movie | Everything You Want | Giorgio | 2017-05-11 |
Movie | Raccontare Venezia | Self | 2017-08-31 |
Movie | Tonino | Self | 2017-12-28 |
Movie | L'abbiamo fatta grossa | Generale | 2016-01-28 |
Movie | The Haunting of Helena | 2013-01-14 | |
Movie | The Years of Lost Images | Self | 2012-07-12 |
Movie | Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni | Self | 2012-11-10 |
Movie | Voi siete qui | Self | 2011-09-08 |
Movie | Noi c'eravamo | Self | 2011-10-26 |
Movie | Flaiano: il meglio è passato | Himself | 2010-04-01 |
Movie | Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms | Self | 2007-10-11 |
Movie | Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds | Self | 2006-02-19 |
Movie | The Caiman | Franco Caspio | 2006-03-24 |
Movie | Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things | Self | 2006-03-08 |
Movie | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self | 2005-07-17 |
Movie | Western all'italiana | 2004-01-01 | |
Movie | Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté | Self - Interviewee | 2004-01-12 |
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 Most Wonderful Moment | Don Grazzini | 1957-03-21 |
Movie | The Doll that Took the Town | 1957-02-06 | |
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 | At the Edge of the City | don Antonio | 1953-10-16 |
Movie | La cieca di Sorrento | Don Pietro Lisandrini | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Attention! Bandits! | Lorenzo | 1951-11-10 |