Adriano Bolzoni

Italian journalist, writer and film director

Adriano Bolzoni
Born	(1919-04-14)14 April 1919 Cremona, Italy
Died	2003 (aged 83–84) Italy
Occupation(s)	Film director, film producer, screenwriter

Adriano Bolzoni (14 April 1919 – 2003)^[1] was an Italian journalist, writer and film director.

Life and career

Born in Cremona, Bolzoni started his career as a journalist, being war correspondent from the front of World War II. Later, he became director of Reporter, a right-wing weekly magazine published between 1959 and 1960 which is best remembered for having Pier Paolo Pasolini as film critic.^[2]^[3] In the 1960s he became editor of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.^[2]

Bolzoni entered the cinema industry in 1948, collaborating at the screenplay of the adventure film I contrabbandieri del mare, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero;^[4] later he was a prolific screenwriter, arousing some fame with several successful Spaghetti Westerns and poliziotteschi.^[4] He was also an occasional director of films and documentaries and an essayist.^[4]

Partial filmography

I'm the Capataz (1951)
Minnesota Clay (1964) Screenwriter^[5]
Savage Gringo (1966) Screenwriter^[6]
Avenger X (1967) Story^[7]

References

Footnotes

^ Cine70 e dintorni, Volume 4, Coniglio Editore, 2003.
^ ^a ^b Tullio Kezich (23 January 1994). "Pasolini dalla parte degli infedeli". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
^ Marco Antonio Bazzocchi (1998). Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pearson, 1998. ISBN 8842494607.
^ ^a ^b ^c Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002.
^ Lucas 2013, p. 594.
^ Lucas 2013, p. 634.
^ Curti 2016, p. 60.

Sources

Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.
Lucas, Tim (2013). Mario Bava - All the Colors of the Dark. ISBN 978-0-9633756-1-2.