Giulio Petroni
Giulio Petroni (born September 21, 1917 in Rome , † January 31, 2010 ibid) was an Italian screenwriter and film director .
Life
After finishing school, Petroni began his film career with the short film Goethe a Roma and worked as a columnist for various newspapers. After the Second World War - Petroni had participated as a partisan supporter of the Communists - he went to Ceylon , where he headed the local film department and made documentaries ; on his return he continued this with a series of political documentaries. Political topics can also be discovered in his feature films - in particular the revolutionary western Tepepa offers a wealth of material for political analysis.
He made his first three feature films from 1959; after that he worked for the RAI until he found his way back to the big screen in 1966 and was particularly successful in the spaghetti western genre . After withdrawing from the film business at the end of the 1970s, Petroni turned to writing .
Occasionally Petroni has been listed under the pseudonym Jeremy Scott .
Filmography (selection)
- Director
- 1960: The joys of bachelors (I piacere dello scapolo)
- 1967: From man to man (Da uomo a uomo)
- 1968: Tepepa (Tepepa)
- 1968: Amigos (… e per tetto un cielo di stelle)
- 1969: La notte dei serpenti
- 1971: Non commettere atti impuri
- 1972: Providenza! - Mousetrap for two weird birds (La vita a volte è molto dura, vero Provvidenza?)
- 1978: La profezia
Web links
- Giulio Petroni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Giulio Petroni on MyMovies (Italian).
- Biography (italian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petroni, Giulio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scott, Jeremy (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 2010 |
| Place of death | Rome |