Piero Pierotti
Piero Pierotti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 January 1912 Pisa, Italy |
| Died | 4 May 1970 (aged 58) Rome, Italy |
| Other names | Peter E. Stanley |
| Occupation | Director |
Piero Pierotti (1 January 1912 – 4 May 1970) was an Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
Life and career[]
Born in Pisa, Pierotti started his career as a journalist, working for La Nazione and Il Nuovo Corriere, and later founding the newspaper Corriere dell'Arno.[1] After some amateur shorts, he moved to Rome where he enrolled in the courses of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1939.[1][2][3] Pierotti later started teaching direction at the University of Pisa, and at the same time he was also active as a documentarist and an assistant director, often collaborating with Raffaello Matarazzo.[1][2][3]
Active as a screenwriter since 1955, in the late 1950s he made his directional debut with and he then directed fifteen films until 1969, being mainly active in the adventure and peplum genres.[1][2][3] He was sometimes credited as Peter E. Stanley.[3]
Selected filmography[]
- Director and screenwriter
- The Pirate and the Slave Girl (1959)
- Marco Polo (1961)
- A Queen for Caesar (1962)
- Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963)
- The Avenger of Venice (1964)
- Hercules Against Rome (1964)
- Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas (1964)
- Giant of the Evil Island (1965)
- Assault on the State Treasure (1967)
- Heads or Tails (1969)
- Screenwriter
- Street of the Five Moons (1942)
- Guai ai vinti (1954)
- The White Angel (1955)
- The Intruder (1956)
- The Witch's Curse (1962)
- Rome Against Rome (1964)
- Super Seven Calling Cairo (1965)
- The Son of Black Eagle (1968)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Gianni Canova (2005). Enciclopedia del cinema. Garzanti, 2009. ISBN 881150516X.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-8804572770.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
External links[]
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- 1912 births
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- Italian film directors
- 20th-century Italian screenwriters
- Italian male screenwriters
- People from Pisa
- 20th-century Italian male writers
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