As Actor
Portrait Of My Father
2010
7.3
Carlo Lizzani
Acting
Birth date
April 3, 1922
Birth place
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Death date
October 5, 2013
Biography
Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada's The Mill on the Po (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story). After helming documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). He films an episode of L'Amore in Città. Respected for his awarded drama Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954), he has proven a solid director of genre films, notably crime films such as The Violent Four (1968) and Crazy Joe (1974) or erotic comedy Roma Bene (1971). He worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1994. His film Celluloide deals with the making of Rome, Open City. He committed suicide in 2013.
Featured in
As Director, As Writer
Hotel Meina
2008
6.0
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Luchino Visconti
2002
6.2
As Director, As Writer
Maria Josè, l'ultima regina
2002
6.8
As Director, As Writer
Celluloide
1996
6.6
As Director
The Wicked
1991
8.0
As Director
12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989
5.0
As Writer
The Devils of Monza
1987
4.0
As Director, As Writer
Mother Ebe
1985
4.6
As Director
The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983
5.4
As Director, As Writer
Fontamara
1980
6.2
As Director, As Writer
The Last Four Days
1974
6.2
As Director
Crazy Joe
1974
6.3
As Director, As Writer
Roma bene
1971
6.0
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
The Tough and the Mighty
1969
6.1
As Director, As Writer
The Violent Four
1968
6.7
As Director
Kill and Pray
1967
6.4
As Director
The Hills Run Red
1966
5.8
As Director
Thrilling
1965
5.5
As Director
The Dirty Game
1965
5.6