Giuseppe Colizzi

Giuseppe Colizzi (born June 28, 1925 in Rome , † August 23, 1978 there ) was an Italian film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Colizzi started in the film business in 1948 when he began a long-term relationship with Luigi Zampa , his uncle; initially as assistant director, later as production manager. After two films as a producer, he took a seat in the director's chair himself and staged with God forgives ... the two of us never a serious western with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer , which after the later success of the duo's comedic films was dubbed and shown again in theaters and was followed by three more films with Colizzi as a director. In 1975 he turned to television and became head of the private broadcaster SPQR ; for this he could only direct one more film until his untimely death.

Terence Hill dedicated his film No one skin like Don Camillo to Colizzi .

Director

1967: God forgives ... Django never! (Dio perdona ... io no!)
1968: Four for one Ave Maria (I Quattro dell'Ave Maria)
1969: Hill of Bloody Boots (La Collina degli stivali)
1972: Two heavenly dogs on the way to hell (Più forte, ragazzi!)
1974: J&M - Dynamite in the Muzzle (Joe e Margherito)

literature

Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. The Italo-Western from its beginnings to today , Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag 2002 (new edition: 2006). ISBN 3-89602-705-0
Christian Heger: The right and left hand of the parody: Bud Spencer, Terence Hill and their films , Marburg: Schüren Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-664-5

Web links

Giuseppe Colizzi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
More information about Giuseppe Colizzi (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 509.
^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 116

personal data
SURNAME	Colizzi, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	23rd August 1978
Place of death	Rome

[1] Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 509.

[2] Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 116