Piero Regnoli
Piero Regnoli (1921–2001) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Also recorded as Dean Crain
Piero Regnoli
- Name
- Piero Regnoli
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- 2001
- Place of death
- Rome, Italy
- Occupation
- Screenwriter, film director
- Nationality
- Italy and Kingdom of Italy.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Piero Regnoli (1921–2001) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
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• Name — Piero Regnoli • Born — 1921 • Other Names — Dean Craig • Died — 2001 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Occupation — Screenwriter, film director • Years Active — 1953–1994 Piero Regnoli (1921–2001) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Career
Career
Born in 1921, Regnoli worked in the film industry between 1953 and 1991 where he wrote over 110 screenplays and directed 11 films. Regnoli's work ranged from sword-and-sandal films, westerns, horror and sexy comedies. His final film where he was officially credited as a director was La principessa sul pisello in 1976. Regnoli did uncredited direction on the 1986 melodrama Giuro che ti amo starring Nino D'Angelo. Regnoli was also employed as the film critic for the Vatican's daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Regnoli died in 2001.
Style
Style
Piero Regnoli's work as writer often dealt with themes of eroticism, such as in Brunello Rondi's Tecnica di un amore (1973), Roberto Bianchi Montero's Caligula's Hot Nights (1977) and Mario Bianchi's Satan's Baby Doll (1983). When Regnoli worked as a director, his work still contained these themes but was often toned down.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological. • Title — Year — Credited as — Notes — Ref(s) Reference(s) • Director — Screenplay — Story — Other • 1953 • 1957 — Acting role as Mr. Bourgeois; Assistant director • Anche l'inferno trema • 1960 • I'll See You in Hell • Caribbean Hawk — 1962 • The Defeat of the Barbarians • Maciste in King Solomon's Mines — 1964 • 1966 • Navajo Joe • 1969 • Gangster's Law — 1969 • Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman — 1971 • And They Smelled the Strange, Exciting, Dangerous Scent of Dollars — 1973 • White Fang • Cry of a Prostitute — 1974 • 1974 • Season for Assassins — 1975 • La principessa sul pisello — 1976 • Honor and "Guapparia" — 1977 • Malabimba – The Malicious Whore — 1978 • Naples... the Camorra Defies, the City Replies — 1979 • 1979 • Your Life for My Son — 1980 • Nightmare City • Patrick Still Lives • Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror • The Sword of the Barbarians — 1982 • Gunan, King of the Barbarians • Satan's Baby Doll — 1983 • The Bronx Executioner • Demonia • Voices from Beyond • Hot Laps • La ragazza di cortina
Identity
Identity
Piero Regnoli is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as film director, screenwriter, film producer, film critic and actor.
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Life and career
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1921
Piero Regnoli was born on 19 June 1921.
2001
Piero Regnoli died on 27 April 2001.
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