Giuliano Montaldo
Born
February 22, 1930
Died
September 5, 2023 (93 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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.
Known For

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Self
2024

One Hour Only
Giuliano
2023
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
Self
2023

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
2022

Ennio
Self
2022

Vera & Giuliano
2020

The Legal Death
2018

Tonino
Self
2017

Raccontare Venezia
Self
2017

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Filmmaker
2017

Everything You Want
Giorgio
2017

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
2017

L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Generale
2016
Il segreto di Otello
Self
2015

The Haunting of Helena
2013

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Self
2012

The Years of Lost Images
Self
2012

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Self
2011
Noi c'eravamo
Self
2011

Voi siete qui
Self
2011
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
Himself
2010

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009

Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
Self
2007

The Caiman
Franco Caspio
2006

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Self
2006

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Self
2006

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self
2005

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Self - Interviewee
2004
Western all'italiana
2004

Celluloide
Civalleri (uncredited)
1996

Un eroe borghese
governatore Banca d'Italia
1995

The Long Silence
Procuratore Capo
1993

Cinecittà Cinecittà
Director #2 · (1 episode)
1985

The Assassin
1961

The Most Wonderful Moment
Don Grazzini
1957

The Doll that Took the Town
1957

Abandoned
Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
1955

The Girls of San Frediano
Venturini
1955

High School
Professore di religione
1954

Chronicle of Poor Lovers
Alfredo Campolmi
1954

At the Edge of the City
don Antonio
1953

La cieca di Sorrento
Don Pietro Lisandrini
1953

Attention! Bandits!
Lorenzo
1951