Years active 1950 - 1977 Name Sergio Grieco | Role Film director | |
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Born January 13, 1917 ( 1917-01-13 ) Codevigo, Veneto, Italy Occupation Film director, screenwriter Died March 30, 1982, Rome, Italy Movies The Sinful Nuns of Saint Val, La belva col mitra, Agent 077: Mission Bloody M, The Incredible Paris Inci, Agent 077: From the Orient wit Similar People Ken Clark, Paolo Malco, Jenny Tamburi, Jacques Sernas, Philippe Hersent | ||
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Sergio Grieco (January 13, 1917 - March 30, 1982) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
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Biography
Sergio's father was the Italian Communist Ruggero Grieco.
Grieco first started in film in the Soviet Union in 1931, working as an assistant to Nikolai Ekk on the first Soviet sound film Road to Life. He began his Italian film career as a script supervisor in 1939, working his way up to an assistant director the following year. In 1949 he worked as an assistant to René Clément on his film The Walls of Malapaga (1949).
His directorial debut was Il sentiero dell'odio (1950), beginning a prolific career in a variety of genres. He met his wife Teresa Terrone (renamed Susan Terry by her agent), who appeared in several of his films, beginning with The Mysterious Swordsman/Lo spadaccino misterioso in 1955.
He directed nearly 40 films between 1950 and 1977, often also writing his own screenplays. Grieco is best known for his adventure, swashbuckler, sword and sandal and Eurospy films with Ken Clark, including the Secret Agent 077 series of imitation James Bond films, which he directed under the pseudonym 'Terence Hathaway' (see filmography). His final film was The Mad Dog Killer (1977). Grieco also co-wrote wrote the screenplay for The Inglorious Bastards (1978).
His nephew is David Grieco, who has worked as a writer, producer and director.