Elo Pannacciò
Elo Pannaciò (actually Angelo Pannacciò ; born March 13, 1923 in Foligno , † December 26, 2001 in Viterbo ) was an Italian film director , screenwriter and film producer .
Life
Pannacciò went to Rome at a young age, where he studied for some time at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and in 1954 also wrote the screenplay for the war film Divisione Folgore by Duilio Coletti . After more than ten years without employment in the film business, he began in 1969 as the author of two and the producer of a film by Luigi Petrini, which continued until the mid-1980s, as a director of trash and porno films of mostly mediocre style, working under many names. Pannacciò founded several production companies, which were soon dissolved due to various (financial and distributive) problems.
His directing credits started with genre movies like the spaghetti westerns Lo ammazzò come un cane, ma ... lui rideva ancora , the erotic horror film Il sesso della strega and the War Holocaust parte seconda (commonly referred to as his best film respected eerie Un urlo dalle tenebre was only from him drawn and actually directed by Franco Lo Cascio ) before turning to hardcore film in the late 1970s; for his productions he used names such as Gerald B. Lennox , Angel Valery and Angelo Pann . Due to illness, Pannacciò could no longer work from the late 1980s.
Pannacciò was married to Margherita Horowitz from 1962 to 1971 , to Jessica Dublin from 1973 to 1980 and to the considerably younger Susanna Levi from 1981 to 1983 , three actresses.
Filmography (selection)
- 1971: Lo ammazzò come un cane, ma… lui rideva ancora
- 1973: Il sesso della strega
- 1978: Holocaust parte seconda (as John Johnathan )
- 1986: Femminile desiderio (porn film)
Web links
- Elo Pannacciò in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rom, Gremese 2002, p. 318
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pannacciò, Elo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pannacciò, Angelo; Johnathan, John; Lennox, Gerald B .; Valery, Angel; Pann, Angelo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director, screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Foligno |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2001 |
| Place of death | Viterbo |