Screen and television director and writer.
He started his career in 1946 as an assistant director, among others with Vittorio Cottafavi. After several screenplays, he was able to make his first film as director in 1954. After a handful of melodramas that met with rather moderate success, he devoted himself to dubbed direction and served as a second-unit director on major productions. He experienced a career upswing from the mid 60s on, when he specialized in comedies, only occasionally interrupted by films of other genres such as his only Western "Ognuno per sé" (1967, with Van Heflin and George Hilton). Towards the end of the 80s he shifted entirely to television work, here too mainly comedies. Time and again, however, he sprinkled "serious" films in between like the highly successful series about Commissario Rocca (1996-2005) or biographical material.
Credits include "Il piccolo vetraio" (1955), "Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili" (1964), "Che notte ragazzi!" (1966, with Marisa Mell), "La pupa del gangster" (1975, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni), "Odio le bionde" (1980), "Callas e Onassis" (2005, TV), and "Il restauratore" (2012, TV-series).
Active until his mid-eighties, he died after a short illness in a hospital.
He started his career in 1946 as an assistant director, among others with Vittorio Cottafavi. After several screenplays, he was able to make his first film as director in 1954. After a handful of melodramas that met with rather moderate success, he devoted himself to dubbed direction and served as a second-unit director on major productions. He experienced a career upswing from the mid 60s on, when he specialized in comedies, only occasionally interrupted by films of other genres such as his only Western "Ognuno per sé" (1967, with Van Heflin and George Hilton). Towards the end of the 80s he shifted entirely to television work, here too mainly comedies. Time and again, however, he sprinkled "serious" films in between like the highly successful series about Commissario Rocca (1996-2005) or biographical material.
Credits include "Il piccolo vetraio" (1955), "Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili" (1964), "Che notte ragazzi!" (1966, with Marisa Mell), "La pupa del gangster" (1975, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni), "Odio le bionde" (1980), "Callas e Onassis" (2005, TV), and "Il restauratore" (2012, TV-series).
Active until his mid-eighties, he died after a short illness in a hospital.
Screen and television director and writer.
He started his career in 1946 as an assistant director, among others with Vittorio Cottafavi. After several screenplays, he was able to make his first film as director in 1954. After a handful of melodramas that met with rather moderate success, he devoted himself to dubbed direction and served as a second-unit director on major productions. He experienced a career upswing from the mid 60s on, when he specialized in comedies, only occasionally interrupted by films of other genres such as his only Western "Ognuno per sé" (1967, with Van Heflin and George Hilton). Towards the end of the 80s he shifted entirely to television work, here too mainly comedies. Time and again, however, he sprinkled "serious" films in between like the highly successful series about Commissario Rocca (1996-2005) or biographical material.
Credits include "Il piccolo vetraio" (1955), "Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili" (1964), "Che notte ragazzi!" (1966, with Marisa Mell), "La pupa del gangster" (1975, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni), "Odio le bionde" (1980), "Callas e Onassis" (2005, TV), and "Il restauratore" (2012, TV-series).
Active until his mid-eighties, he died after a short illness in a hospital.
He started his career in 1946 as an assistant director, among others with Vittorio Cottafavi. After several screenplays, he was able to make his first film as director in 1954. After a handful of melodramas that met with rather moderate success, he devoted himself to dubbed direction and served as a second-unit director on major productions. He experienced a career upswing from the mid 60s on, when he specialized in comedies, only occasionally interrupted by films of other genres such as his only Western "Ognuno per sé" (1967, with Van Heflin and George Hilton). Towards the end of the 80s he shifted entirely to television work, here too mainly comedies. Time and again, however, he sprinkled "serious" films in between like the highly successful series about Commissario Rocca (1996-2005) or biographical material.
Credits include "Il piccolo vetraio" (1955), "Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili" (1964), "Che notte ragazzi!" (1966, with Marisa Mell), "La pupa del gangster" (1975, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni), "Odio le bionde" (1980), "Callas e Onassis" (2005, TV), and "Il restauratore" (2012, TV-series).
Active until his mid-eighties, he died after a short illness in a hospital.
Bio by: Fritz Tauber
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