Franco Castellano
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Franco Castellano (20 June 1925 – 28 December 1999) was an Italian
screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
and
film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
. He wrote for 94 films between 1958 and 1997. He also directed 21 films between 1964 and 1992. Most of the films he co-wrote and co-directed as a part of the
Castellano & Pipolo Castellano & Pipolo is the stage name used by the pair of Italian screenwriters and film directors Franco Castellano (1925–1999) and Giuseppe Moccia (1933–2006). Together, they wrote the screenplays for about seventy films, and directed t ...
duo. Their 1984 film '' Il ragazzo di campagna'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the
67th Venice International Film Festival The 67th annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 1 to 11 September 2010, at Venice Lido in Italy. American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino was the jury president for the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to ''Somewhere ...
.


Selected filmography

* '' My Wife's Enemy'' (1959) * '' Tipi da spiaggia'' (1959) * '' Guardatele ma non toccatele'' (1959) * '' Gentlemen Are Born'' (1960) * '' Totò, Fabrizi e i giovani d'oggi'' (1960) * '' The Two Rivals'' (1960) * '' The Fascist'' (1961) * ''
5 marines per 100 ragazze ''5 marines per 100 ragazze'' is a 1961 Italian '' musicarello'' comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Virna Lisi. Cast * Virna Lisi as Grazia * Mario Carotenuto as Admiral Michigan * Hélène Chanel as Elena * Little Tony as ...
'' (1962) * '' Toto's First Night'' (1962) * ''
Obiettivo ragazze ''Obiettivo ragazze'' is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. Plot Four ex-soldiers meet and reminisce about the times they were in the military: a parachutist mistaking his sergean ...
'' (1963) * '' The Thursday'' (1963) * '' Three Nights of Love'' (1964) * '' Slalom'' (1965) * '' The Man, the Woman and the Money'' (1965) * '' Di che segno sei?'' (1975) * '' Tell Me You Do Everything for Me'' (1976) * '' Il ragazzo di campagna'' (1984)


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* 1925 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian film directors Writers from Rome Italian male screenwriters 20th-century Italian male writers {{Screen-writer-stub