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Years active
  
1952 - 1983

Name
  
Giovanni Grimaldi


Role
  
Screenwriter

Children
  
Aldo Grimaldi

Born
  
November 14, 1917 (
1917-11-14
)
Catania, Sicily, Italy

Died
  
February 25, 2001, Rome, Italy

Movies
  
In a Colt's Shadow, Don Chisciotte and Sanc, Brutti di notte, The Handsome - the Ugly, La governante

Similar People
  
Bruno Corbucci, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Lando Buzzanca, Ettore Maria Fizzarotti

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

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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 Franchi-Ciccio Ingrassia.

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.

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Selected filmography

Director and screenwriter
  • Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone (1965)
  • In a Colt's Shadow (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
  • Io, Amleto (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)
  • 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)
  • Nel sole (1967)
  • Angeli senza paradiso (1970)
  • Paths of War (1970)
  • When Women Were Called Virgins (1972)
  • Giovanni grimaldi stella by starlight


    References

    Giovanni Grimaldi Wikipedia