Carlo Lizzani
Known For
Directing
Born
1922-04-03 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died
2013-10-05
Biography
Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada's The Mill on the Po (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story). After helming documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). He films an episode of L'Amore in Città. Respected for his awarded drama Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954), he has proven a solid director of genre films, notably crime films such as The Violent Four (1968) and Crazy Joe (1974) or erotic comedy Roma Bene (1971). He worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1994. His film Celluloide deals with the making of Rome, Open City. He committed suicide in 2013.
Most Known For
Uomini forti
as Self
Un film et son époque
as Self
Linee d'ombra
as Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self
The Violent Four
as Police official (uncredited)
Pope John XXIII
as Pio XII
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
as Self
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
as Narrator
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
as Self
Noi c'eravamo
as Self
The Tough and the Mighty
as Journalist (uncredited)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as Self
Il falso bugiardo
as Self
Voi siete qui
as Self
Outcry
as Don Camillo, il prete
Mr. Teddy
Western all'italiana
Luchino Visconti
as Self