Adriano Bolzoni
| Adriano Bolzoni | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 April 1919 Cremona, Italy |
| Died |
2003 (aged 83–84) Italy |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, screenwriter |
Adriano Bolzoni (14 April 1919 – 2003)[1] was an Italian journalist, writer and film director.
Life and career
Born in Cremona, Bolzoni started his career as a journalist, being war correspondent from the front of World War II. Later, he became director of Reporter, a right-wing weekly magazine published between 1959 and 1960 which is best remembered for having Pier Paolo Pasolini as film critic.[2][3] In the 1960s he became editor of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.[2]
Bolzoni entered the cinema industry in 1948, collaborating at the screenplay of the adventure film I contrabbandieri del mare, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero;[4] later he was a prolific screenwriter, arousing some fame with several successful spaghetti westerns and poliziotteschi.[4] He was also an occasional director of films and documentaries and an essayist.[4]
Partial filmography
References
Footnotes
- ↑ Cine70 e dintorni, Volume 4, Coniglio Editore, 2003.
- 1 2 Tullio Kezich (23 January 1994). "Pasolini dalla parte degli infedeli". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ↑ Marco Antonio Bazzocchi. Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pearson, 1998. ISBN 8842494607.
- 1 2 3 Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002.
- ↑ Curti 2016, p. 60.
Sources
- Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.