Maurizio Costanzo

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Maurizio Costanzo (2008)

Maurizio Costanzo (born August 28, 1938 in Rome ) is an Italian journalist , television presenter and screenwriter .

Life

Costanzo began his professional career in 1956 with the paper Paese Sera ; as a journalist he was, among other things, the head of the magazine L'Occhio and from 1978 to 1981 of La Domenica del Corriere , worked as a radio author ( Canzoni e nucole ) and since 1962 as a television writer (with Cabaret delle 22 he helped found the Italian talk show tradition), organized festivals, wrote song texts ( Se telefonando von Mina ) and stage plays (e.g. Il marito addittivo , Cielo, mio ​​marito! and Vuoti a rendere ) and hosted numerous programs, with his breakthrough in 1976 and his greatest success six years later . The "Maurizio Costanzo Show" was an integral part of the Italian television landscape from 1982 to 2009.

Numerous different activities in the different areas of the entertainment industry show Costanzo's versatility; In addition to the authorship of 25 books, he was also the director of the television channel Canale 5 from 1997 to 1999 .

Since 1967 he has also repeatedly written screenplays for movies; from 1976 to 1982 - until 2003 his last work in this area - he worked with Pupi Avati as its regular author. In 1977 he directed Melodrammore, his only film, a reminiscence of the melodramatic crime films of the 1950s.

In 1978 the screenplay for Una giorna particolare , which he made with his participation, received the Italian film prize Nastro d'Argento .

Costanzo has been a professor at the Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano since 2011 .

The director Saverio Costanzo is his son. Maurizio Costanzo has been married to Maria De Filippi for the fourth time since 1995 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: A qualsiasi prezzo (book)
  • 1969: I quattro del Pater Noster (book)
  • 1976: Help, she loves me (L´altra meta del cielo) (book)
  • 1977: A Special Day (Una giornata particolare) (Book)
  • 1977: Melodrammore (direction, book)
  • 1983: Zeder (Zeder) (book)
  • 1993: Anni 90 parte II (actor)
  • 2008: Parliament di me (book)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nonsolobiografie.it/biografia_maurizio_costanzo.html
  2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 124
  3. ^ Le Novae - Maurizio Costanzo è uno dei nuovi docenti dell'Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano ( Memento of November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Costanzo, Maurizio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist, television presenter, actor, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome