Mino Loy
Mino Loy (actually Guglielmo Loy Donà , born December 10, 1933 in Sassari ) is an Italian film producer and director .
Life
Loy first appeared in the world of film in 1954; initially he worked as a documentary filmmaker , a genre to which he kept coming back until the mid-1960s. Just two years later he was directing two now forgotten comedies and from 1959 found his formula for success with numerous sexy films , which he wrote, shot and in some cases also produced as a successor to Alessandro Blasetti's Europa di notte . After this wave was over, he switched to well-equipped and well-crafted adventure films of various genres, two of which he directed with co-producer Luciano Martino , for which both chose the pseudonym Martin Donan - both with their bourgeois family name providing the inspiration - and for others took over the direction alone (consequently with the pseudonym J. Lee Donan ). Until 1984 Loy produced other genre films, then he withdrew from the active scene. In the new millennium he was surprisingly back with two films.
Filmography (selection)
- Director
- 1962: Nights for Sale (La donna di notte)
- 1963: Alluring Nights - Black and White (Supersexy '64)
- 1963: Mondo sexy (90 notti in giro per il mondo)
- 1964: Naked to Live (Venere proibite)
- 1965: Bob Fleming incites Professor G. ( Le spie uccidono a Beirut , co-director)
- 1966: The Invisible Strikes (Flashman)
- 1969: Hot over Africa's earth (La battaglia del deserto)
- 1971: Mondo perverso - This wonderful and broken world ( Questo sporco mondo meraviglioso , co-director)
- production
- 1967: 10,000 bloody dollars (10,000 dollars per un massacro)
- 1967: Django - the bastard (Per 100,000 dollars t'ammazzo)
- 1971: A hallelujah for Camposanto (Gli fumavano le colt… lo chiamavano Camposanto!)
- 1974: Thick air in Sacramento (Di Tresette ce n'è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno)
- 1978: The great offensive (Il grande attacco)
- 1981: The cannibals' revenge (Cannibal ferox)
- 1984: Monster Shark (Shark: Rosso nell'oceano)
Web links
- Mino Loy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 248.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loy, Mino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loy Donà, Guglielmo; Donan, J. Lee; Donan, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film producer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sassari |