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.
2024
as Self
2023
as Giuliano
2023
as Self
2022
as Self
2022
as Self
2020
2018
2017
as Self
2017
as Self
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
2017
as Giorgio
2016
as Generale
2013
2012
as Self
2012
as Self
2011
as Self
2011
as Self
2011
as Self
2010
as Himself
2009
2007
as Self
2006
as Franco Caspio
2006
as Self
2006
as Self
2005
as Self
2004
as Self - Interviewee
2004
1996
as Civalleri (uncredited)
1995
as governatore Banca d'Italia
1993
as Procuratore Capo
1961
1957
as Don Grazzini
1957
1955
as Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
1954
as Professore di religione
1954
as Alfredo Campolmi
1953
as don Antonio
1953
as Don Pietro Lisandrini
1951
as Lorenzo