Actor

Giuliano Montaldo

Directing

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Acting credits

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

2.4

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Movies: 66Series: 2Crew credits: 30

TMDB ID: 132257

IMDb ID: nm0598855

Known for: Directing

Born: February 22, 1930

Died: September 5, 2023

Age: 93

Place of birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1951 - 2025

Years active: 75

Average TMDB rating: 6.54

Wikidata: Q53028

Also known as

Elio Montesti • Giuliano Monteldo

Other jobs

Director (19)Screenplay (4)First Assistant Director (2)Assistant Director (1)Co-Director (1)Production Manager (1)Second Unit (1)Second Unit Director (1)

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Biography

Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.