Marcello Fondato
Marcello Fondato (born January 8, 1924 in Rome , † November 13, 2008 in San Felice Circeo ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director .
life and work
Fondato began writing for Luigi Comencini and Mario Bava in the late 1950s . Soon he became an assistant director to Aldo Molinari and others. He worked with many interesting directors in the 1950s and until the middle of the following decade on numerous entertainment films; these include the horror films The Three Faces of Fear and Bloody Silk and the Spaghetti Westerns The Four Vultures of the Sierra Nevada and Reckoning in Vera Cruz .
As a director, he was responsible for a number of comedies from 1968 after a film about gangsterism in Sardinia, including two like Pech und Schwefel (with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill ) and Charleston - Two fists clear up (also with Bud Spencer, for the he also scripted other projects). In 1985 he also made a one-time TV film.
Since 1990 Fondato lived in San Felice Circeo , where he founded and directed a "Teatro Stabile". A piece, Il Timido , was also created for the ensemble.
Filmography (selection)
Script and idea
- 1958: Mowgli pericolose - Director: Luigi Comencini
- 1959: Surprises in love (Le sorprese dell'amore) - directed by Luigi Comencini
- 1959: Girls with pretty legs (Le bellissime gambe di Sabrina) - Director: Camillo Mastrocinque
- 1962: The gray galley (Odio mortale)
- 1963: The three faces of fear (I tre volti della paura) - Director: Mario Bava
- 1964: Bloody silk (Sei donne per l'assassino)
- 1964: The Law of Two (I due violenti)
- 1964: The son of Jesse James (El hijo de Jesse James)
- 1965: The four vultures of the Sierra Nevada (I quattro inesorabili)
- 1967: Always Trouble with the Louts (Top Crack)
- 1967: Top Job (Ad ogni costo) - Director: Giuliano Montaldo
- 1968: Madame has the longest fingers (La notte è fatta per… rubare) - Director: Giorgio Capitani
- 1978: They called him mosquito (Lo chiamavano bulldozer)
- 1980: Buddy hits Luke (Chissà perché… capitano tutte a me) - Director: Michele Lupo
- 1982: The Bomber (Bomber) - Director: Michele Lupo
- 1986: Aladin (Superfantagenio)
Director
- 1968: Bandit to be visited (I protagonisti)
- 1969: The girlfriend was always there (Certo, certissimo, anzi ... probabile)
- 1970: Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa
- 1972: Causa di divorzio
- 1974: Two like pitch and sulfur (Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo)
- 1975: A louse in the fur (A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere)
- 1977: Charleston - Two fists clean up (Charleston)
producer
- 1979: The big one with his extraterrestrial little one (Uno sceriffo extraterrestre - poco extra e molto terrestre)
Web links
- Marcello Fondato in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 181
- ↑ notes Fondatos death on the website of the municipality of San Felice Circeo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fondato, Marcello |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 2008 |
| Place of death | San Felice Circeo |