Ugo Pirro

Ugo Pirro
Ugo Pirro (right) on the set of Celluloide , Rome 1996
Born	Ugo Mattone April 20, 1920 Salerno, Italy
Died	January 18, 2008(2008-01-18) (aged 87) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Screenwriter, novelist
Language	Italian
Genre	Fiction, screenwriting

Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Biography

Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani ( Attention! Bandits! , 1951, and The Hunchback of Rome , 1960).^{[ citation needed ]}

His screenplays of the 1970s include films Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis , which both won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, with Pirro being nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay respectively as a part of separate writing duos.^{[ citation needed ]}

Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being The Camp Followers (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and Celluloide , adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996. ^[4]

Pirro died in Rome in 2008. ^[1]

Works

Films

• Attention! Bandits! (1951)
• Empty Eyes (1953)
• Songs of Italy (1955)
• The Wolves (1956)
• L'amore più bello (1957)
• The Most Wonderful Moment (1957)
• Cerasella (1959)
• The Hunchback of Rome (1960)
• La garçonnière (1960)
• 5 Branded Women (1960)
• Warriors Five (1962)
• The Verona Trial (1963)
• The Camp Followers (1965)
• Wake Up and Die (1966)
• Navajo Joe (1966)
• We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
• The Wild Eye (1967)
• Sardinia Kidnapped (1968)
• The Day of the Owl (1968)
• The Bandit (1969)
• Battle of Neretva (1969)
• Metello (1970)
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
• The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
• Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)
• Il generale dorme in piedi (1972)
• One Russian Summer (1973)
• Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
• Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
• Somewhere Beyond Love (1974)
• Blood Brothers (1974)
• Paolo Barca, Schoolteacher and Weekend Nudist (1975)
• Colpita da improvviso benessere (1975)
• San Babila-8 P.M. (1976)
• The Inheritance (1976)
• I Am the Law (1977)
• Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1978)
• Enfantasme (1978)
• Povratak (1979)
• Ogro (1979)
• Cronaca nera (1987)
• A Boy from Calabria (1987)
• Obbligo di giocare - Zugzwang (1990)
• Funes, a Great Love (1993)
• Law of Courage (1994)
• Celluloide (1996)
• The Nymph (1996)

Television

• Nucleo zero (1984)
• Mio figlio non sa leggere (1984)
• Gioco di società (1989)
• Piazza di Spagna (1993)
• La famiglia Ricordi (1993)
• Il prezzo del denaro (1995)

Novels

• The Camp Followers (1956)
• Mille tradimenti (1959)
• Jovanka e le altre (1960)
• Mio figlio non sa leggere (1981)
• Il luogo dei delitti (1991)
• Osteria dei pittori (1994)
• Celluloide (1995)
• Soltanto un nome sui titoli di testa (1998)
• Figli di ferroviere (1999)
• Per scrivere un film (2001)
• Il cinema della nostra vita (2001)

References

1. Obituary in The Times, 21 January 2008
2. Obituary at BBC News
3. Biography Archived 2006-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at Rai.it (in Italian)
4. Sandra Brennan (2015). "Celluloide". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2015-11-20.

External links

• Ugo Pirro at IMDb