Ernesto Gastaldi
Ernesto Gastaldi (born September 10, 1934 in Graglia ) is an Italian screenwriter and film director .
Life
Gastaldi has been enthusiastic about the cinema since his early youth and made amateur films; later he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and began in 1958 as an assistant director , but soon established himself as a screenwriter, at the beginning of the 1960s a. a. for horror films . Between 1960 and 1989 he worked for almost 120 films, including numerous successful spaghetti westerns , crime films and other genre films of the respective heyday. Occasionally he made his own directorial appearances, with the artistic and commercial results being disappointing.
Gastaldi is married to the actress Mara Chianetta . Two of his pseudonyms are Julian Berry and Gastad Green .
Gastaldi also published novels under various names (such as Freddy Foster and James Duffy ), including several dime novels and two biographies .
Filmography (selection)
- 1961: Pirate Captain Mary (Le avventure di Mary Read)
- 1962: The Terrible Secret of Dr. Hichcock (L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock)
- 1963: Perseus - the invincible (Perseo l'Invincibile)
- 1963: The Castle of Horror (Le vergine di Norimberga)
- 1963: The Demon and the Virgin (La frusta e il corpo)
- 1964: That was Buffalo Bill (Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del Far West)
- 1964: Libido (also co-director and production)
- 1964: A dead man hung on a bell rope (La cripta e l'incubo)
- 1966: Arizona Colt (Arizona Colt)
- 1966: Sartana (Mille dollari sul nero)
- 1966: I was happy to kill women
- 1966: an almost perfect murderer (Delitto quasi perfetto)
- 1967: 10,000 bloody dollars (10,000 dollars per un massacro)
- 1967: Django - the bastard (Per 100,000 dollars t'ammazzo)
- 1967: Death Rode on Tuesdays (I giorni dell'ira)
- 1968: Django - melody in lead (Uno di piu all'inferno)
- 1968: Pig dogs do not pray (I vigliacchi non pregano)
- 1969: Sartana - killing was his daily bread (Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino)
- 1970: Women tormented to the point of madness (Le foto proibite di una signora per bene)
- 1970: Sartana is coming ... (Una nuvola di polvere ... un grido di morte ... arriva Sartana)
- 1970: Death says Amen (Arizona si scatenò… e li fece fuori tutti!)
- 1971: Rockers don't die so easily (La lunga spiaggia fredda) (also director)
- 1972: Three Our Fathers for four scoundrels (Il grande duello)
- 1972: The secret of the bloody lily (Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer?)
- 1972: You sell death (Una ragione per vivere e una per morire)
- 1972: Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave
- 1973: My name is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno)
- 1973: The Devil's Saw (I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale)
- 1974: The man without a memory (L'uomo senza memoria)
- 1974: The Berserker (Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare)
- 1975: An eye for an eye (La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori)
- 1975: Nobody is the greatest (Un genio, due compari, un pollo)
- 1975: The gangster's doll (La pupa del gangster)
- 1977: I am violence (Il cinico, l'infame, il violento)
- 1979: The sacred beast of the Kumas (Il fiume del grande caimano)
- 1988: Stradivarius
- 1992: L'uovo del cucolo (also director)
Web links
- Ernesto Gastaldi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gastaldi's website
- Gastaldi at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, pp. 198/199
- ↑ Directory with covers on his homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gastaldi, Ernesto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berry, Julian; Green, Gastad; Duffy, James; Foster, Freddy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graglia , Italy |