Ugo Pirro

Ugo Pirro

Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter.

Born Ugo Mattone in Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani ("Achtung! Banditi!", 1951, and "Il gobbo] ", 1960).

Heis most notable for writing the screenplays of the 1970s films "Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto" and "Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini", for which he won two Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film. Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being "Le soldatesse" (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and "Celluloide", adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996.

He died in Rome in 2008.__NOTOC__

Works

Films

*"Achtung! Banditi!" (1951)
*"Il sole negli occhi" (1953)
*"Uomini e lupi" (1956)
*"L'amore più bello" (1957)
*"Il momento più bello" (1957)
*"Cerasella" (1959)
*"Il gobbo" (1960)
*"La garçonnière" (1960)
*"5 Branded Women" (1960)
*"La guerra continua" (1962)
*"Il processo di Verona" (1963)
*"Le soldatesse" (1965)
*"Svegliati e uccidi" (1966)
*"Navajo Joe" (1966)
*"A ciascuno il suo" (1967)
*"L'occhio selvaggio" (1967)
*"Sequestro di persona" (1968)
*"Il giorno della civetta" (1968)
*"L'amante di Gramigna" (1969)
*"Bitka na Neretvi" (1969)
*"Metello" (1970)
*"Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto" (1970)
*"Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini" (1970)
*"La classe operaia va in paradiso" (1971)
*"Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente" (1972)
*"Il generale dorme in piedi" (1972)
*"Days of Fury" (1973)
*"La proprietà non è più un furto" (1973)
*"Sutjeska" (1973)
*"Delitto d'amore" (1974)
*"I guappi" (1974)
*"Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista" (1975)
*"Colpita da improvviso benessere" (1975)
*"San Babila ore 20 un delitto inutile" (1976)
*"L'eredità Ferramonti" (1976)
*"Il prefetto di ferro" (1977)
*"Signore e signori, buonanotte" (1978)
*"L'enfant de la nuit" (1978)
*"Povratak" (1979)
*"Operación Ogro" (1979)
*"Cronaca nera" (1987)
*"Un ragazzo di Calabria" (1987)
*"Obbligo di giocare - Zugzwang" (1990)
*"Funes, un gran amor" (1993)
*"Il giudice ragazzino" (1994)
*"Celluloide" (1996)
*"Ninfa plebea" (1996)

Television

*"Nucleo zero" (1984)
*"Mio figlio non sa leggere" (1984)
*"Gioco di società" (1989)
*"Piazza di Spagna" (1993)
*"La famiglia Ricordi" (1993)
*"Il prezzo del denaro" (1995)

Novels

*"Le soldatesse" (1956)
*"Mille tradimenti" (1959)
*"Jovanka e le altre" (1960)
*"Mio figlio non sa leggere" (1981)
*"Il luogo dei delitti" (1991)
*"Osteria dei pittori" (1994)
*"Celluloide" (1995)
*"Soltanto un nome sui titoli di testa" (1998)
*"Figli di ferroviere" (1999)
*"Per scrivere un film" (2001)
*"Il cinema della nostra vita" (2001)

ources

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7196418.stm Obituary] at BBC News
* [http://www.italica.rai.it/cinema/biografie/pirro.htm Biography] at Rai.it it
*imdb name|name=Ugo Pirro|id=0685316
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3221056.ece Obituary in "The Times", 21 January 2008]


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