Carlo Lizzani
Born April 03, 1922 (Age: 104)
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Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
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.
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Filmography
Mr. Teddy
2012
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as
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Age: 90
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
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as Self
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Age: 89
No Image
Noi c'eravamo
2011
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as Self
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Age: 89
No Image
A Dream of Women
2011
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as Self
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Age: 89
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
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as Self
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Age: 87
Linee d'ombra
2007
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as Self
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Age: 85
Uomini forti
2006
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as Self
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Age: 84
No Image
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006
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as
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Age: 84
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
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as Self
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Age: 84
Behind Love and Anger
2005
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as Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
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Age: 82
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Western all'italiana
2004
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as
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Age: 81
Luchino Visconti
2002
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as Self
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Age: 80
Pope John XXIII
2002
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as Pio XII
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Age: 79
No Image
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997
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as Self
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Age: 74
Rossellini
1990
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as Self
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Age: 67
The Tough and the Mighty
1969
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as Journalist (uncredited)
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Age: 47