Aldo Lado
Aldo Lado (5 December 1934 – 25 November 2023) was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter and author. He was known internationally for his contributions to the giallo genre during the 1970s, through his films Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Who Saw Her Die? Several of his films are considered cult classics.
Also recorded as George B. Lewis
Aldo Lado
Aldo Lado · Public domain
- Born
- 1934. · Rijeka.
- Died
- 2023. · Rome.
- Nationality
- Italy.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, film producer, actor, writer and director.
- Fields
- cinema and film.
- Known for
- The Humanoid and L'ultimo treno della notte.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Aldo Lado (5 December 1934 – 25 November 2023) was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter and author. He was known internationally for his contributions to the giallo genre during the 1970s, through his films Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Who Saw Her Die? Several of his films are considered cult classics.
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Aldo Lado was born in Fiume, Italy (today Rijeka, Croatia) on 5 December 1934. Lado came up through the film industry as an assistant director, most notably to Bernardo Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970). After writing the story for the 1971 giallo The Designated Victim, he made his directorial debut later that year with Short Night of Glass Dolls. Lado took the job after two previous directors, Maurizio Lucidi and Antonio Margheriti, fell through. The film was a success, and he followed it with another giallo, Who Saw Her Die?. Lado's subsequent films were made in a variety of genres, including drama (Woman Buried Alive, The Cousin), romance (La cosa buffa), and horror (Last Stop on the Night Train). In 1979, he directed the Star Wars cash-in The Humanoid, for which he was credited under the pseudonym "George B. Lewis". In 1981, he directed the Alberto Moravia adaptation La disubbidienza. In 2013, after a 20-year hiatus, he directed the film Il Notturno di Chopin. Lado published his first short story in 2016, in the anthology Nuovi delitti di lago. In 2017, he published I film che non vedrete mai ('The films you will never see'), a compilation based on Lado's own unproduced screenplays. Lado died at his home in Rome on the morning of 25 November 2023, at the age of 88.
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Aldo Lado died in 2023 at Rome.
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In 2024, Vespertilio Awards founded the Aldo Lado Award. The award is given to the film that best reflects the maestro's ideas and views on cinema.
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- 1.Aldo Lado. The New York Times. 2016.
- 2.Jefferson Kline, Thomas. I film di Bernardo Bertolucci: cinema e psicanalisi. Gremese Editore. 1994. 978-88-7605-797-7.
- 3.Aldo Lado: "Monica Vitti? Voleva fare un film con me, ma era una rompiscatole e le dissi di no". Movieplayer.it.
- 4.» "Sepolta Viva". Ode alla seduzione.
- 5.Hughes, Howard. Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2011. 978-0-85771-978-2.
- 6.È morto Aldo Lado, regista cult del Guerre stellari italiano "L'umanoide". Rai News. 26 November 2023.
- 7.Morto il regista Aldo Lado, maestro dell'horror anni 70: suo 'Sepolta viva' con Agostina Belli. La Repubblica. 26 November 2023.
- 8.È morto il regista e sceneggiatore Aldo Lado, noto soprattutto per i suoi film horror. Il Post. 26 November 2023.
- 9.Addio al regista Aldo Lado, dal grande schermo al buen retiro ad Angera. Varese News. 25 November 2023.
- 10.Nocturno. Vespertilio Awards 3ª edizione. 2024-04-05.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 12
- Il gigante e la bambina, in Nuovi delitti di lago, Morellini Editore, 2016,
- Cold Case sul Lago Maggiore, in Delitti di lago, vol. 3, Morellini Editore, 2017,
- I film che non vedrete mai, Angera Films, 2017,
- Un pollo da spennare, Angera Films, 2018,
- Hotel delle cose, Angera Films, 2018,
- Il mastino, Angera Films, 2018,
- Ombre scure sotto la Rocca di Angera, in Delitti di lago, vol. 4, Morellini Editore, 2020,
- Storie di donne: MIRIAM, Edizioni Angerafilm 2020,
- IL RIDER, Edizioni Angerafilm 2020,
- Storie di donne: COSTANZA, Edizioni Angerafilm 2021,
- Il tombarolo in Delitti di Lago 5, Morellini Editore 2021,
- Il luccio in Delitti di Lago 7, Morellini Editore 2023,
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