Giuliano Montaldo

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.

Known For

Ennio

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Cinecittà Cinecittà

Chronicle of Poor Lovers

The Haunting of Helena

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

The Caiman

Abandoned

All Movies (42)

• Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?2025 · as Self
• Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces2024 · as Self
• One Hour Only2023 · as Giuliano
• Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America2022 · as Self
• Ennio2022 · as Self
• Vera & Giuliano2020
• The Legal Death2018
• Tonino2017 · as Self
• Raccontare Venezia2017 · as Self
• Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts2017 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Everything You Want2017 · as Giorgio
• Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life2017 · as Self
• L'abbiamo fatta grossa2016 · as Generale
• Il segreto di Otello2015 · as Self
• The Haunting of Helena2013
• Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni2012 · as Self
• The Years of Lost Images2012 · as Self
• Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane2011 · as Self
• Noi c'eravamo2011 · as Self
• Voi siete qui2011 · as Self
• Flaiano: il meglio è passato2010 · as Himself
• Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso2009
• Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms2007 · as Self
• The Caiman2006 · as Franco Caspio
• Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things2006 · as Self
• Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds2006 · as Self
• Filmmakers vs. Tycoons2005 · as Self
• Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté2004 · as Self - Interviewee
• Western all'italiana2004
• Celluloide1996 · as Civalleri (uncredited)
• Un eroe borghese1995 · as Roberto Calvi
• The Long Silence1993 · as Procuratore Capo
• The Assassin1961
• The Most Wonderful Moment1957 · as Don Grazzini
• The Doll that Took the Town1957
• Abandoned1955 · as Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
• The Girls of San Frediano1955 · as Venturini
• High School1954 · as Professore di religione
• Chronicle of Poor Lovers1954 · as Alfredo Campolmi
• At the Edge of the City1953 · as don Antonio
• The Blind Woman of Sorrento1953 · as Don Pietro Lisandrini
• Attention! Bandits!1951 · as Lorenzo

All TV Shows (1)

• Cinecittà Cinecittà1985 · as Director #2