Giuliano Montaldo

Director

1930-02-22 – 2023-09-05 · Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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.

• The Battle of Algiers (1966) — Second Unit, Second Unit Director
• Everything You Want (2017) — Giorgio
• The Caiman (2006) — Franco Caspio
• L'abbiamo fatta grossa (2016) — Generale
• Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) — Director, Story, Screenplay
• A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975) — Second Unit Director
• The Haunting of Helena (2013)
• The Assassin (1961) — , First Assistant Director
• Kapo (1960) — Co-Director
• Giordano Bruno (1973) — Director, Screenplay
• Machine Gun McCain (1969) — Director, Writer
• Grand Slam (1967) — Director
• The Entrepreneur (2011) — Director, Screenplay, Story
• Time to Kill (1989) — Director, Screenplay
• The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987) — Director, Screenplay
• Attention! Bandits! (1951) — Lorenzo
• Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) — Alfredo Campolmi
• The Fifth Day of Peace (1970) — Director, Writer
• A Dangerous Toy (1979) — Director, Screenplay
• Abandoned (1955) — Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
• Closed Circuit (1978) — Director, Screenplay
• And Agnes Chose to Die (1976) — Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
• Un eroe borghese (1995) — Roberto Calvi
• The Girls of San Frediano (1955) — Venturini