Marcello Ciorciolini

Marcello Ciorciolini (* 1922 in Rome ) is an Italian screenwriter and film director .

Life

Ciorciolini began his career as a radio writer in the early 1950s, where he a. a. wrote for Alberto Talegalli's character sor Clemente in the program Rosso e Nero . Almost at the same time he wrote scenarios and scripts for feature films . Until well into the 1960s he worked alternately for these two of his many areas of interest as well as for television, the theater and as a songwriter and writer. The latter include “Una zebra a pois”, “E mi pareva strano”, “La giostra della vita” and “Ti guarderò nel cuore”, the leitmotif of the film Mondo Cane . “More” is one of the most played tracks on the radio.

For television, Ciorciolini wrote “Un 'altra Domenica” and “Tutti insieme compatibilmente” as well as “Drim” and “Grand Hotel”; for the stage, in addition to cabaret numbers, also dramatic things like the piece “Cornelia”.

Film scripts were created for adventure films as well as for his preference for comedies , in which mostly a comic duo, often played by Franco & Ciccio , was the focus. From 1965 he also directed nine films himself; two of them under the pseudonyms Frank Reed and James Harris .

Filmography (selection)

Director

• 1966: The Black Box Affair (Il mondo trema)
• 1968: Ciccio perdona… io no!
• 1968: I nipoti di Zorro

script

• 1959: The secret of the red mask (Il terrore della maschera rossa)
• 1961: Hercules, the hero of Carthage (La vendetta di Ursus)
• 1963: Ursus, the invincible (Ursus nella terra di fuoco)
• 1964: Due mafiosi nel Far West
• 1965: Mr. Major, two bottles are on the spot (I due sergenti del generale Custer)
• 1966: I due figli di Ringo

Web links

• Marcello Ciorciolini in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ciorciolini at mymovies

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 111