Gianni Buffardi
Gianni Buffardi (* 1930 in Rome ; † August 22, 1979 ibid) was an Italian film producer and director .
Life
Buffardi was the stepson of director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia . From 1960 to 1963 he produced a number of mostly successful films by Sergio Corbucci and Steno with actors such as Totò , with whose daughter Liliana Buffardi was married for some time and with whom he has two children, and Peppino De Filippo . From 1968 to 1970, after a five-year break, he still financed one project per year. In 1973 he took a seat in the director's chair for Number One , a crime drama about a nightclub in Rome, which he also wrote (and of course produced).
Buffardi was known as a playboy and party goer and a formative figure in Roman nightlife; he died of the effects of an infection that he contracted while bathing in the Tiber .
Filmography
Director
- 1973: Number One
producer
- 1960: Totò, Peppino and the sweet life (Totò, Peppino e la dolce vita)
Web links
- Gianni Buffardi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.antoniodecurtis.org/biografia_de.htm
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 77
- ↑ Hugh McLeave: Rogues in the gallery. 2003, p. 147
- ↑ Jet Magazine , October 4, 1979, p. 19
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buffardi, Gianni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film producer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd August 1979 |
| Place of death | Rome |