Riz Ortolani
Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (25 March 1926 – 23 January 2014) was an Italian film composer. Ortolani scored over 300 films working mostly within the Italian genres of Mondo, Giallo, and the Spaghetti Western. Ortolani also scored many Hollywood films and has had some of his compositions reused in films like Drive and Django Unchained. Ortolani's most famous composition is More, which he wrote for the infamous film Mondo Cane. It won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 36th Academy Awards. The song was later covered by Frank Sinatra, Kai Winding, Andy Williams, Roy Orbison, and others. Ortolani was born on 25 March 1926 in Pesaro, Italy. He was the youngest of six children. Ortolani's father, a postal worker, gave his son a violin at age 4. Ortolani later switched to flute after injuring his elbow in a car accident. He studied at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" in his hometown of Pesaro before moving to Rome in 1948 and finding work with the RAI orchestra. Though the chronology is unclear, he also likely served as a musician in the Italian Air Force orchestra, formed a Jazz ensemble, and came to the United States as a Jazz musician in Hollywood, all before scoring his first film. Ortolani married Katyna Ranieri in 1956. In the early 1950s, Ortolani was founder and member of a well-known Italian jazz band. One of his early film scores was for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's 1962 pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of Mondo Cane led Ortolani to score films in England and the United States such as The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968). He also scored the 1972 film The Valachi Papers, directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson. Ortolani scored all or parts of over 200 films, including German westerns like Old Shatterhand (1964) and a long series of Italian giallos, Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy films, Exploitation films and mondo films. These include Il Sorpasso (1962), Castle of Blood (1964), Africa Addio (1966), Day of Anger (1967), Anzio (1968), The McKenzie Break (1970), The Hunting Party (1971), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972), Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), From Hell to Victory (1979), the controversial Ruggero Deodato films Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), and the first series of La piovra (1984). In later years he scored many films for Italian director Pupi Avati. His music was used on soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (1999), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Drive (2011) and Django Unchained (2012). In 2013, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy. Ortolani died on 23 January 2014 in Rome, aged 87. Source: Article "Riz Ortolani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
The Fifth Musketeer
(Original Music Composer)
Graduation Party
(Music)
Where the Bullets Fly
(Original Music Composer)
Woman Times Seven
(Conductor)
Cannibal Holocaust
(Original Music Composer)
Mondo Cane
(Music)
Beyond the Law
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
(Original Music Composer)
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
(Conductor)
Old Shatterhand
(Music)
Mafia Junction
(Original Music Composer)
The Fall of Rome
(Original Music Composer)
House on the Edge of the Park
(Original Music Composer)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
(Conductor)
Con rispetto parlando
(Music)
The Hideout
(Original Music Composer)
Ride and Kill
(Original Music Composer)
The Glory Guys
(Original Music Composer)
Zeder
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Emma Hamilton
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Don't Torture a Duckling
(Original Music Composer)
Tigers in Lipstick
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Secret Fantasy
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The Girl from Trieste
(Music)
Day of Anger
(Original Music Composer)
Madhouse
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Mondo Candido
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The Violent Four
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Salt in the Wound
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Impiegati
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Death Steps in the Dark
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All
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Sahara Cross
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Kill and Pray
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How to Kill a Judge
(Original Music Composer)
The Corruption
(Music)
Confessions of a Police Captain
(Original Music Composer)
Killer Crocodile 2
(Original Music Composer)
The Last Minute
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The Devil Also Cries
(Original Music Composer)
Teresa the Thief
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The Dove Must Not Fly
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Terrore sulla città
(Music)
No, the Case Is Happily Resolved
(Original Music Composer)
The Fight for Rome
(Original Music Composer)
The 7th Dawn
(Music)
Night of the Serpent
(Original Music Composer)
To Love Ophelia
(Original Music Composer)
The Hunting Party
(Music)
A Season of Giants
(Original Music Composer)
Spy in Your Eye
(Music)
Sardinia Kidnapped
(Original Music Composer)
Il Sorpasso
(Original Music Composer)
The Spy with a Cold Nose
(Music)
Killer Crocodile
(Original Music Composer)
Dear Parents
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Say Hello to Yesterday
(Music)
Jus primae noctis
(Original Music Composer)
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
(Music)
Noi tre
(Music)
Il figlio più piccolo
(Music)
Love & Passion
(Original Music Composer)
Holy Cow
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Maria - Nur die Nacht war Zeuge
(Original Music Composer)
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
(Music)
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
(Music)
Blonde in Black Leather
(Original Music Composer)
The Ravine
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Paprika
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The Best Man
(Music)
Holiday Hookers
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Ghost of Love
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One Russian Summer
(Music)
Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
(Music)
The Burning Years
(Original Music Composer)
Very Important Person
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The Angel with the Gun
(Original Music Composer)
Una fredda mattina di maggio
(Music)
Più bello di così si muore
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Goodbye Uncle Tom
(Original Music Composer)
So Sweet... So Perverse
(Music)
Castle of Blood
(Original Music Composer)
The Inquiry
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Il corpo della ragassa
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Hour of Death
(Music)
Brutes and Savages
(Original Music Composer)
Women of the World
(Original Music Composer)
Andrea Doria -74
(Original Music Composer)
Shadows Unseen
(Music)
With What Love, With What Love
(Original Music Composer)
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
(Original Music Composer)
Lightning Bolt
(Original Music Composer)
Anzio
(Music)
Un caso di coscienza
(Original Music Composer)
Web of the Spider
(Original Music Composer)
Mediterranean Holiday
(Original Music Composer)
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
(Original Music Composer)
Submission
(Original Music Composer)
One Way
(Original Music Composer)
The African Deal
(Original Music Composer)
The Dead Are Alive
(Original Music Composer)
A Girl Called Jules
(Music)
Mimi
(Original Music Composer)
Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
(Original Music Composer)
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
(Original Music Composer)
Gegè Bellavita
(Original Music Composer)
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
(Original Music Composer)
In the Jungle: The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust
(Original Music Composer)
A Second Childhood
(Original Music Composer)
Madron
(Original Music Composer)
There Is No 13
(Music)
From Hell to Victory
(Original Music Composer)
Incantato
(Original Music Composer)
Warriors of the Year 2072
(Music)
Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?
(Music)
Giovanna's Father
(Music)
Tiffany Memorandum
(Original Music Composer)
Soldier's Girl
(Original Music Composer)
Magnificat
(Original Music Composer)
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
(Original Music Composer)
Bootleggers
(Music)
Do Not Commit Adultery
(Original Music Composer)
Ecco
(Original Music Composer)
War Goddess
(Original Music Composer)
Casanova & Co.
(Original Music Composer)
A Hole in the Windshield
(Music)
Red Dragon
(Original Music Composer)
The McKenzie Break
(Music)
The Second Wedding Night
(Original Music Composer)
In The Rose Garden
(Original Music Composer)
The Lovemakers
(Original Music Composer)
Tuareg: Desert Warrior
(Original Music Composer)
Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista
(Music)
Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
(Music)
Help Me Dream
(Original Music Composer)
The Pitiless Three
(Original Music Composer)
Nobody's Perfect
(Original Music Composer)
The Hunting Party
(Conductor)
The Statue
(Original Music Composer)
Vieni, vieni amore mio
(Music)
One on Top of the Other
(Original Music Composer)
Tuareg: Desert Warrior
(Conductor)
A Dinner for Them to Meet
(Original Music Composer)
The Story of Boys and Girls
(Music)
Hospitals: The White Mafia
(Original Music Composer)
Viva Cangaceiro
(Original Music Composer)
Horror Castle
(Original Music Composer)
The Pyjama Girl Case
(Music)
Don't Torture a Duckling
(Conductor)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
(Original Music Composer)
Woman Times Seven
(Original Music Composer)
The Valachi Papers
(Original Music Composer)
Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
(Music)
Cifrato speciale
(Music)
Counselor at Crime
(Original Music Composer)
Double Murder
(Conductor)
Le braghe del padrone
(Music)
Cyclone
(Music)
Grandes ocasiones
(Music)
Africa Addio
(Original Music Composer)
Double Murder
(Original Music Composer)
I Am Afraid
(Original Music Composer)
Massacre Play
(Music)
The Unholy Four
(Original Music Composer)
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
(Original Music Composer)
First Love
(Original Music Composer)
Rings of Fear
(Original Music Composer)
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
(Original Music Composer)
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
(Conductor)
The Warning
(Original Music Composer)
Disperatamente l'estate scorsa
(Music)
The Car That Became a Star
(Music)
The Voyeur
(Music)
Brothers in Blood
(Music)
Le ore nude
(Compositor)
Valentina
(Original Music Composer)
Honey
(Original Music Composer)
Miranda
(Music)
Una casa a Roma
(Original Music Composer)
The Dark Sun
(Original Music Composer)
I camionisti
(Original Music Composer)
Christmas Present
(Original Music Composer)
A School Trip
(Original Music Composer)
The Octopus
(Original Music Composer)
Christopher Columbus
(Music)
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
(Music)
Ritratto di Donna Velata
(Music)