Giovanni Grimaldi
Giovanni Grimaldi (14 November 1917 – 25 February 2001) was an Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director. He was sometimes credited as Gianni Grimaldi.
Also recorded as Gianni Grimaldi
Giovanni Grimaldi
Italian magazine Radiocorriere, issue n. 8, year 1960, page 24 · Public domain
- Name
- Giovanni Grimaldi
- Born
- 14 November 1917
- Birthplace
- Catania, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- 25 February 2001
- Place of death
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- screenwriter · journalist · director
- Languages
- Italian
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Giovanni Grimaldi fu regista; la nascita è registrata il 14 novembre 1917 e la morte il 25 febbraio 2001.
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Il luogo di nascita di Giovanni Grimaldi è Catania, Italia, secondo la Bibliothèque nationale de France e la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. La Bibliothèque nationale de France riporta la forma più precisa Catania (Sicile, Italie). Il luogo di morte di Giovanni Grimaldi è Roma, Italia, secondo la Bibliothèque nationale de France e la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Name — Giovanni Grimaldi • Born — 14 November 1917 • Birthplace — Catania, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy • Died — 25 February 2001 • Place of death — Rome, Lazio, Italy • Years Active — 1952–1983
Biography
Biography
Born in Catania, Sicily, Grimaldi entered the cinema industry in 1952 as a screenwriter of a large number of often highly successful films, frequently working together with Bruno Corbucci. Since 1964 he became a prolific director of comedy films, often working with Lando Buzzanca and with the couple Franco and Ciccio. Aside from films, Grimaldi was a journalist, a collaborator and even the director of several Italian humor magazines such as Trilussa, Candido and Marc'Aurelio. He was also a radio author, a playwright and a television director. He was the father of the director and screenwriter Aldo Grimaldi.
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• Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone (1965) • In a Colt's Shadow (1965) • James Tont operazione U.N.O. (1965) • Johnny Colt (1966) • The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid (1967) • I 2 deputati (1968) • Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968) • Un caso di coscienza (1970) • The Beasts (1971) • Il magnate (1973) • La governante (1974) • Il fidanzamento (1975)
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• I, Hamlet (1952) • Matrimonial Agency (1953) • It Happened at the Police Station (1954) • Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955) • Allow Me, Daddy! (1956) • Who Hesitates is Lost (1960) • The Two Marshals (1961) • Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita (1961) • Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962) • Gladiators 7 (1962) • The Slave (1962) • Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962) • The Two Colonels (1962) • Toto's First Night (1962) • Toto vs. Maciste (1962) • The Monk of Monza (1963) • Toto vs. the Four (1963) • Totò Diabolicus (1963) • Toto and Cleopatra (1963) • Sexy Toto (1963) • I due mafiosi (1964) • Tears on Your Face (1964) • What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964) • Toto of Arabia (1965) • Latin Lovers (1965) • Mi vedrai tornare (1966) • 4 Dollars of Revenge (1966) • Nel sole (1967) • Angeli senza paradiso (1970) • Paths of War (1970) • When Women Were Called Virgins (1972) • The Inconsolable Widow Thanks All Those Who Consoled Her (1973)
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