Ugo Pirro
Ugo Pirro | |
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![]() Ugo Pirro (right) on the set of Celluloide, Rome 1996 | |
Born | Ugo Mattone April 20, 1920 Battipaglia, Italy |
Died | January 18, 2008 Rome, Italy | (aged 87)
Occupation | Screenwriter, novelist |
Language | Italian |
Genre | Fiction, screenwriting |
Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist.[1][2][3]
Biography[]
Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani (Achtung! Banditi!, 1951, and Il gobbo, 1960).[citation needed]
His screenplays of the 1970s include films Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto and Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film.[citation needed]
Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being Le soldatesse (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and Celluloide, adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996.[4]
Pirro died in Rome in 2008.[1]
Works[]
Films[]
- Achtung! Banditi! (1951)
- Il sole negli occhi (1953)
- Songs of Italy (1955)
- Uomini e lupi (1956)
- L'amore più bello (1957)
- Il momento più bello (1957)
- Cerasella (1959)
- Il gobbo (1960)
- La garçonnière (1960)
- 5 Branded Women (1960)
- La guerra continua (1962)
- Il processo di Verona (1963)
- Le soldatesse (1965)
- Svegliati e uccidi (1966)
- Navajo Joe (1966)
- A ciascuno il suo (1967)
- L'occhio selvaggio (1967)
- Sardinia Kidnapped (1968)
- Il giorno della civetta (1968)
- L'amante di Gramigna (1969)
- Bitka na Neretvi (1969)
- Metello (1970)
- Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970)
- Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970)
- La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971)
- Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente (1972)
- Il generale dorme in piedi (1972)
- Days of Fury (1973)
- La proprietà non è più un furto (1973)
- Sutjeska (1973)
- Delitto d'amore (1974)
- I guappi (1974)
- Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista (1975)
- Colpita da improvviso benessere (1975)
- San Babila ore 20 un delitto inutile (1976)
- L'eredità Ferramonti (1976)
- Il prefetto di ferro (1977)
- Signore e signori, buonanotte (1978)
- Enfantasme (1978)
- Povratak (1979)
- Operación Ogro (1979)
- Cronaca nera (1987)
- Un ragazzo di Calabria (1987)
- (1990)
- Funes, un gran amor (1993)
- Il giudice ragazzino (1994)
- Celluloide (1996)
- Ninfa plebea (1996)
Television[]
- (1984)
- (1984)
- (1989)
- Piazza di Spagna (1993)
- (1993)
- (1995)
Novels[]
- Le soldatesse (1956)
- (1959)
- (1960)
- (1981)
- (1991)
- (1994)
- Celluloide (1995)
- (1998)
- (1999)
- (2001)
- (2001)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Obituary in The Times, 21 January 2008
- ^ Obituary at BBC News
- ^ Biography Archived 2006-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at Rai.it (in Italian)
- ^ Sandra Brennan (2015). "Celluloide". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1920 births
- 2008 deaths
- People from Battipaglia
- 20th-century Italian screenwriters
- Italian male screenwriters
- Italian male novelists
- David di Donatello winners
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- Italian writer stubs
- Screenwriter stubs