Giuliano Montaldo
Known For
Directing
Born
1930-02-22 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Died
2023-09-05
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Celluloide
as Civalleri (uncredited)
High School
as Professore di religione
Tonino
as Self
Ennio
as Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as Self
The Caiman
as Franco Caspio
Cinecittà Cinecittà
as Director #2
The Haunting of Helena
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
as Alfredo Campolmi
Abandoned
as Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self
The Assassin
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Attention! Bandits!
as Lorenzo
Un eroe borghese
as governatore Banca d'Italia
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
Everything You Want
as Giorgio
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
as Generale
The Girls of San Frediano
as Venturini
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Filmmaker