Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
The Caiman
(Franco Caspio)
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
(Self)
Noi c'eravamo
(Self)
Ennio
(Self)
High School
(Professore di religione)
Abandoned
(Scattered Soldier from Tuscany)
One Hour Only
(Giuliano)
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
(Self)
The Most Wonderful Moment
(Don Grazzini)
Raccontare Venezia
(Self)
Tonino
(Self)
The Legal Death
The Doll that Took the Town
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
(Self)
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
(Self)
Un eroe borghese
(governatore Banca d'Italia)
Voi siete qui
(Self)
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
(Self)
Attention! Bandits!
(Lorenzo)
The Years of Lost Images
(Self)
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
(Himself)
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
(Alfredo Campolmi)
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Everything You Want
(Giorgio)
La cieca di Sorrento
(Don Pietro Lisandrini)
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
(Generale)
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
(Self - Interviewee)
The Long Silence
(Procuratore Capo)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
(Self)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
(Self - Filmmaker)
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
(Self)
The Haunting of Helena
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
(Self)
At the Edge of the City
(don Antonio)
Celluloide
(Civalleri (uncredited))
Western all'italiana
The Assassin
Vera & Giuliano
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
(Self)
L'oro di Cuba
(Director)
Giordano Bruno
(Director)
Giordano Bruno
(Screenplay)
Machine Gun McCain
(Director)
Sacco & Vanzetti
(Director)
The Entrepreneur
(Director)
The 5th Day of Peace
(Director)
Grand Slam
(Director)
A Dangerous Toy
(Director)
Closed Circuit
(Director)
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
(Director)
Control
(Director)
The Assassin
(First Assistant Director)
Kapo
(Co-Director)
Nudi per vivere
(Director)
Turandot
(Director)
A Dangerous Toy
(Screenplay)
Pigeon Shoot
(Director)
The Wide Blue Road
(Assistant Director)
Years of the Eagle
(Director)
The Battle of Algiers
(Second Unit)
Time to Kill
(Director)
The Demons of St. Petersburg
(Director)
Machine Gun McCain
(Writer)
And Agnes Chose to Die
(Director)
Esterina
(First Assistant Director)
Time to Kill
(Screenplay)
The Entrepreneur
(Screenplay)
Duel of Champions
(Screenplay)
Giovanna
(Production Manager)
Pigeon Shoot
(Screenplay)
Control
(Screenplay)
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
(Screenplay)
And Agnes Chose to Die
(Screenplay)
And Agnes Chose to Die
(Dialogue)
The Reckless
(Screenplay)
The Entrepreneur
(Story)
The 5th Day of Peace
(Screenplay)
The Demons of St. Petersburg
(Screenplay)
L'oro di Cuba
(Story)
L'oro di Cuba
(Screenplay)
Rome, November 12, 1994
(Director)
The Reckless
(Director)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
(Director)
Extraconiugale
(Screenplay)
Extraconiugale
(Director)
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
(Second Unit Director)
Sacco & Vanzetti
(Story)
Sacco & Vanzetti
(Screenplay)
Closed Circuit
(Screenplay)
Marco Polo
(Screenplay)
Marco Polo
(Director)