Daniele D'Anza
Daniele D'Anza (born April 20, 1922 in Milan , † April 12, 1984 in Rome ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director .
Life
D'Anza studied political science in Pavia and began his career in two ways in 1946: as a critic and theater director with the production of Irwin Shaw's "Bury the Dead". He worked with numerous, mostly smaller, theater groups and subsequently switched to the cinema several times. There he also worked as a director three times, having previously written several scripts and occasionally worked as an assistant. The most important work in this area was probably the script for Michelangelo Antonioni's Cronaca di una amore 1950. Since 1961 he has worked exclusively for the small screen. “Racconti fantastici” and “Orient express” are just two titles of his later works, which also included the series “Tutto tutto”.
Since 1952 D'Anza had been one of the first experimental directors of the still young Italian television, where he celebrated his first outstanding success in July 1954 with “Snodo stradale”. Until the end of his life, after giving up his activities for the big screen exclusively from 1961, he was responsible for numerous great successes, for example for crime stories according to Francis Durbridge , with original scripts such as "Aprite: polizia" and "L'ultimo aereo per Venezia" and with musical romances for Domenico Modugno and others - in some cases he even wrote the lyrics. In the 1970s he filmed several shower and fantastic materials and worked for mini-series.
D'Anza was married to actress Luisella Boni .
Filmography (selection)
As a screenwriter
- 1950: Chronicle of a love (Cronaca di un amore)
As a director
- 1954: Giove in doppiopetto
- 1960: Call Girls (I piaceri del sabato notte)
- 1961: Pugni, pupe e marinai
- 1967: Under Roman Skies (La Roma di Moravia) (TV movie)
- 1969: Coralba (TV series)
Web links
- Daniele D'Anza in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 134.
- ↑ Daniele D'Anza. In: vicolostretto.net. Retrieved on June 12, 2015 (detailed biography and catalog raisonné).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | D'Anza, Daniele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1984 |
| Place of death | Rome |