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
- Doctor Butcher M.D. ... (Director)
- College Girl on Vacation ... (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
- Rome, the Other Face of Violence ... (Director)
- A Special Cop in Action ... (Director)
- Friends More Than Before ... (Director)
1975
- Valentina... The Virgin Wife ... (Director)
- Lover Boy ... (Director)
- Violent Rome ... (Director)
- Lo sgarbo ... (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
- Reverend's Colt ... (Director)
- Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest ... (Director)
1969
- Raptus ... (Director)
1968
- Between God, The Devil and a Winchester ... (Director)
- One by One ... (Writer)
- Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows ... (Director)
- The Two Magnificent Fresconi ... (Director)
1967
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat ... (Story)
- Two R-R-Ringos from Texas ... (Director)
- Payment in Blood ... (Story)
- Die Easy in Ghentar ... (Executive Producer)
- Granada, addio! ... (Director)
1966
- 7 Golden Monks ... (Director)
- A Few Dollars for Django ... (Producer)
- Spiaggia libera ... (Director)
1965
- Veneri in collegio ... (Director)
1964
- Bullet in the Flesh ... (Director)
- These Mad, Mad Women ... (Director)
- Le tardone ... (Director)
- Venus in the Sun ... (Director)
- Badmen of the West ... (Director)
1963
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella ... (Director)
- Le motorizzate ... (Director)
- Siamo tutti pomicioni ... (Director)
1962
- The Fury of Achilles ... (Director)
- Gli italiani e le donne ... (Producer)
- Il medico delle donne ... (Director)
- Twist, lolite e vitelloni ... (Director)
- L'assassino si chiama Pompeo ... (Director)
1961
- Walter e i Suoi Cugini ... (Producer)
- Le magnifiche 7 ... (Director)
- Un figlio d'oggi ... (Director)
- Bellezze sulla spiaggia ... (Producer)
- La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo ... (Director)
- Scandali al mare ... (Director)
1960
- Caccia al marito ... (Director)
- Ferragosto in Bikini ... (Director)
- My Pal, Dr. Jekyll ... (Producer)
1959
- Quel tesoro di papà ... (Producer)
- Quanto sei bella Roma ... (Director)
- Un canto nel deserto ... (Director)
1958
- Il romanzo di un giovane povero ... (Director)
- Quando gli angeli piangono ... (Director)
1957
- Buongiorno primo amore! ... (Director)
- There Is a Path in the Sky ... (Director)
- La canzone del destino ... (Director)
- Sette canzoni per sette sorelle ... (Director)
- Serenate per 16 bionde ... (Director)
- Vivendo, cantando, che male ti fò? ... (Director)
1956
- Cantando sotto le stelle ... (Director)
1955
- Ore 10: lezione di canto ... (Director)
- La ragazza di Via Veneto ... (Screenplay)
1954
- I Sing for You ... (Director)
- Ridere! Ridere! Ridere! ... (Story)
- Il cantante misterioso ... (Director)
1953
- Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice ... (Story)
- Era lei che lo voleva! ... (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)
- City of Violence ... (Director)
- Il mago per forza ... (Co-Director)
- Milano miliardaria ... (Director)
1950
- Her Favourite Husband ... (First Assistant Director)
- I'm in the Revue ... (Assistant Director)
- Miss Italia ... (First Assistant Director)
- Fugitive Lady ... (Director)
- The Thief of Venice ... (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)