Marino Girolami
Born: 1914-02-01 in Rome, Italy
Died: 1994-02-20
Known For: Directing
Biography
Marino Girolami (1 February 1914 – 20 February 1994) was an Italian film director and actor. Marino Giorlami was born on 1 February 1914 in Rome, Italy. Formally a professional boxer, Girolami ended his boxing career when he was 20. Following this, he got a degree as a physical therapist and opened a gym which specialized in therapeutic massages. Girolami entered into Italy Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Among the people Girolami met was Anna Magnani who took her son Luca to meet him which led to close relationship between them. Girolami gave her the script he had been working on of Campo de'fiori which was passed on to Aldo Fabrizi. The story was re-written by Girolami and Federico Fellini and directed by Mario Bonnard, which led to Girolami working in film. He debuted as an actor in 1940, and became an assistant director for Mario Soldati, Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz. In 1949 he debuted as a director with La strada buia, a variation on the film Fugitive Lady. He pursued his career as film director with several musical comedies and melodramas. Film historian and critic Roberto Curti described Girolami as one of Italy's most prolific genre directors, directing 78 films in three decades. Girolami worked in several genres and trends such as the Western with Between God, the Devil and a Winchester, the crime film (Violent Rome) and horror with Zombie Holocaust. Girolami also made hardcore pornography such as Sesso profondo.
Filmography
1987
- Delirium: Photo of Gioia ... (Production Secretary)
1982
- Desirable Teacher 2 ... (Director)
- Giggi il bullo ... (Director)
1981
- Desirable Teacher ... (Director)
- L'esercito più pazzo del mondo ... (Director)
1980
- College Girl on Vacation ... (Director)
- Doctor Butcher M.D. ... (Director)
- Flying Sex ... (Director)
1979
- Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice? ... (Director)
- Hunted City ... (Story)
1978
- Nude Odeon ... (Director)
1977
- Kakkientruppen ... (Director)
1976
- A Special Cop in Action ... (Director)
- Rome, the Other Face of Violence ... (Director)
- Friends More Than Before ... (Director)
1975
- Lover Boy ... (Writer)
- Valentina... The Virgin Wife ... (Director)
- Violent Rome ... (Director)
- The Slight ... (Director)
1974
- 4 Crazy Draftees at the Army ... (Director)
1973
- What the Chambermaid Saw ... (Director)
1972
- Sexy Sinners ... (Director)
1971
- The Feast of Satan ... (Writer)
- African Story ... (Director)
1970
- Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest ... (Director)
- Reverend's Colt ... (Director)
1969
- Raptus ... (Writer)
1968
- One by One ... (Writer)
- Between God, The Devil and a Winchester ... (Director)
- The Two Magnificent Fresconi ... (Director)
- Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows ... (Director)
1967
- Payment in Blood ... (Story)
- Two R-R-Ringos from Texas ... (Director)
- Die Easy in Ghentar ... (Executive Producer)
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat ... (Screenplay)
- Granada, addio! ... (Director)
1966
- A Few Dollars for Django ... (Producer)
- Spiaggia libera ... (Director)
- 7 Golden Monks ... (Director)
1965
- Veneri in collegio ... (Director)
1964
- Bullet in the Flesh ... (Director)
- These Mad, Mad Women ... (Director)
- Badmen of the West ... (Director)
- Le tardone ... (Director)
- Venus in the Sun ... (Director)
1963
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella ... (Director)
- Siamo tutti pomicioni ... (Director)
- Le motorizzate ... (Director)
1962
- The Fury of Achilles ... (Director)
- Twist, lolite e vitelloni ... (Screenplay)
- L'assassino si chiama Pompeo ... (Director)
- Il medico delle donne ... (Director)
- Gli italiani e le donne ... (Producer)
1961
- Walter e i Suoi Cugini ... (Story)
- La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo ... (Director)
- Un figlio d'oggi ... (Writer)
- Scandali al mare ... (Director)
- Le magnifiche 7 ... (Director)
- Bellezze sulla spiaggia ... (Producer)
1960
- My Pal, Dr. Jekyll ... (Screenplay)
- Ferragosto in Bikini ... (Director)
- Caccia al marito ... (Story)
1959
- Quanto sei bella Roma ... (Director)
- Quel tesoro di papà ... (Producer)
- Un canto nel deserto ... (Director)
1958
- Quando gli angeli piangono ... (Director)
- Il romanzo di un giovane povero ... (Director)
1957
- Serenate per 16 bionde ... (Director)
- There Is a Path in the Sky ... (Director)
- Sette canzoni per sette sorelle ... (Director)
- Vivendo, cantando, che male ti fò? ... (Director)
- La canzone del destino ... (Director)
- Buongiorno primo amore! ... (Director)
1956
- Cantando sotto le stelle ... (Director)
1955
- Ore 10: lezione di canto ... (Director)
- La ragazza di Via Veneto ... (Screenplay)
1954
- Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! ... (Story)
- I Sing for You ... (Director)
- Il cantante misterioso ... (Director)
1953
- Era lei che lo voleva! ... (Director)
- Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice ... (Director)
- Lasciateci in pace ... (Director)
1952
- Poppy ... (Co-Director)
- Noi due soli ... (Director)
1951
- It's Him!... Yes! Yes! ... (Co-Director)
- Seven Hours of Troubles ... (Co-Director)
- Il mago per forza ... (Co-Director)
- Milano miliardaria ... (Director)
- City of Violence ... (Director)
1950
- The Thief of Venice ... (Assistant Director)
- Her Favourite Husband ... (First Assistant Director)
- Fugitive Lady ... (Director)
- I'm in the Revue ... (Assistant Director)
- Miss Italia ... (First Assistant Director)
1948
- Under the Sun of Rome ... (First Assistant Director)
- Escape to France ... (Second Assistant Director)
1946
- Eugenia Grandet ... (Assistant Director)
1945
- In High Places ... (Assistant Director)
- The Misery of Mr. Travet ... (First Assistant Director)
1943
- The Peddler and the Lady ... (Story)