Marino Girolami

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Marino Girolami (born February 1, 1914 in Rome , † February 20, 1994 there ) was an Italian film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Girolami dropped out of his brief university degree in medicine and initially pursued a successful career as an amateur boxer. In this sport he achieved the European championship title in his weight class and had to end his career due to cardiac arrhythmias despite having already registered for the Berlin Olympic Games . He attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his film debut in 1941 as an actor . After numerous engagements as assistant director, such as with Campo de 'Fiori by Mario Bonnard , with whom he often worked, and in the same position with Mario Soldati and Renato Castellani . In 1951 he began directing, initially for Italian versions of international productions. By the end of his career he directed around 80 films, created around 40 scripts, produced 20 films and acted in supporting roles in five productions.

The focus of his work was comedy and related things, where he often worked with Claudio Villa in the 1950s ; Almost all of these films were (in some cases great) successes with audiences, while the criticism of this commodity was negative. Starting in 1968 in particular, his artistic field of activity extended from period films, westerns and horror films to actionware, often brought to the screen under the pseudonym Frank Martin , which he mainly used for international productions; other noms-de-film Girolamis are Jean Bastide , Franco Martinelli , Charles Ramoulian , Dario Silvestri and Fred Wilson .

Girolami is the father of Enzo G. Castellari and Ennio Girolami , as well as the brother of Romolo Guerrieri .

He created a statue of a boxer that stands at the Stadio dei Marmi in Rome.

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1950: The Road to Doom (La strada buia)
  • 1951: Shadows over Naples (Amore e sangue)
  • 1953: Ring free for love (Era lei che lo voleva!)
  • 1956: A night with 16 blondes (Serenata per sedici bionde)
  • 1958: Quando gli angeli piangono
  • 1959: This treasure from papa (Quel tesoro di papà)
  • 1961: The blackmailer calls (Un figlio d'oggi)
  • 1962: Achilles (L'ira di Achille)
  • 1962: The Magnificent Seven (Le magnifiche sette)
  • 1964: I magnifici Brutos del West
  • 1965: Il piombo e la carne
  • 1967: Two idiots against Django (Due Rrringos nel Texas)
  • 1968: Anche nel West c'era una volta Dio
  • 1970: Lead thunderstorm (Reverendo Colt) (anonymous; also production)
  • 1973: Who does what with whom, and why not with me? (Maria Rosa la guardona)
  • 1974: Mr. General, you can tell us (4 marmittoni alle grandi manovre)
  • 1975: violence rages through the city (Roma violenta)
  • 1975: Come on, we make love (La moglie vergine)
  • 1975: Students love pretty bunnies (Grazie ... nonna)
  • 1976: Cop Hunter (Italia a mano armata)
  • 1976: The bloody games of the rich (Roma: l'altra faccia della violenza)
  • 1977: Shoot you ... I'll get food (Kakkientruppen)
  • 1979: A house full of madmen (Dove vai se il vizietto non ce l'hai?)
  • 1980: Flying Sex - Die kessen stewardesses (Sesso profondo)
  • 1980: Zombies among cannibals (Zombi Holocaust)
  • 1980: Lively Teens - Put your jeans down! (La liceale al mare con l'amica di papà)
  • 1981: The completely crazy classroom (Pierino contro tutti)
  • 1981: The craziest army in the world (L'esercito più pazzo del mondo)
  • 1982: Giggi il bullo
  • 1982: Pierino colpisce ancora

producer

script

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registi, Gremese 2002, pp. 212/213.
  2. ↑ Info on cortoin.screenweek.it
personal data
SURNAME Girolami, Marino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jean Bastide (pseudonym); Frank Martin (pseudonym); Franco Martinelli (pseudonym); Charles Ramoulian (pseudonym); Dario Silvestri (pseudonym); Fred Wilson (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Lazio , Italy
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1994
Place of death Rome , Lazio , Italy