Giovanni Grimaldi Biography

Italian screenwriter, journalist and film directorFor the painter and architect, see Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

Giovanni Grimaldi (14 November 1917 – 25 February 2001) was an Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director. He was sometimes credited as Gianni Grimaldi.

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.

Selected filmography

Director and screenwriter

  • Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone (1965)
  • In a Colt's Shadow (1965)
  • James Tont operazione U.N.O. (1965)
  • The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid (1967)
  • I 2 deputati (1968)
  • Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968)
  • Un caso di coscienza (1970)
  • Il magnate (1973)
  • La governante (1974)
  • Il fidanzamento (1975)

Screenwriter

  • 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)
  • 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)

Sources

    External links

    • Giovanni Grimaldi at IMDb


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