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
- A Special Cop in Action ... (Director)
- Rome, the Other Face of Violence ... (Director)
- Friends More Than Before ... (Director)
1975
- Valentina... The Virgin Wife ... (Director)
- Lover Boy ... (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
- African Story ... (Director)
- The Feast of Satan ... (Writer)
1970
- Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest ... (Director)
- Reverend's Colt ... (Director)
1969
- Raptus ... (Director)
1968
- One by One ... (Writer)
- The Two Magnificent Fresconi ... (Director)
- Between God, The Devil and a Winchester ... (Director)
- Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows ... (Director)
1967
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat ... (Story)
- Payment in Blood ... (Story)
- Two R-R-Ringos from Texas ... (Director)
- Die Easy in Ghentar ... (Executive Producer)
- Granada, addio! ... (Director)
1966
- Spiaggia libera ... (Director)
- A Few Dollars for Django ... (Producer)
- 7 Golden Monks ... (Director)
1965
- Veneri in collegio ... (Director)
1964
- Le tardone ... (Director)
- Venus in the Sun ... (Director)
- These Mad, Mad Women ... (Director)
- Badmen of the West ... (Director)
- Bullet in the Flesh ... (Director)
1963
- Le motorizzate ... (Director)
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella ... (Director)
- Siamo tutti pomicioni ... (Director)
1962
- The Fury of Achilles ... (Director)
- Twist, lolite e vitelloni ... (Director)
- L'assassino si chiama Pompeo ... (Director)
- Gli italiani e le donne ... (Producer)
- Il medico delle donne ... (Director)
1961
- Walter e i Suoi Cugini ... (Producer)
- Le magnifiche 7 ... (Director)
- Scandali al mare ... (Director)
- Bellezze sulla spiaggia ... (Producer)
- La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo ... (Director)
- Un figlio d'oggi ... (Director)
1960
- Caccia al marito ... (Director)
- Ferragosto in Bikini ... (Director)
- My Pal, Dr. Jekyll ... (Producer)
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)
- La canzone del destino ... (Director)
- Buongiorno primo amore! ... (Director)
- Vivendo, cantando, che male ti fò? ... (Director)
- Sette canzoni per sette sorelle ... (Director)
1956
- Cantando sotto le stelle ... (Director)
1955
- La ragazza di Via Veneto ... (Screenplay)
- Ore 10: lezione di canto ... (Director)
1954
- Ridere! Ridere! Ridere! ... (Story)
- I Sing for You ... (Director)
- Il cantante misterioso ... (Director)
1953
- Era lei che lo voleva! ... (Director)
- Lasciateci in pace ... (Director)
- Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice ... (Story)
1952
- Poppy ... (Co-Director)
- Noi due soli ... (Director)
1951
- It's Him!... Yes! Yes! ... (Co-Director)
- Seven Hours of Troubles ... (Co-Director)
- Milano miliardaria ... (Director)
- Il mago per forza ... (Co-Director)
- City of Violence ... (Director)
1950
- Fugitive Lady ... (Director)
- Miss Italia ... (First Assistant Director)
- I'm in the Revue ... (Assistant Director)
- The Thief of Venice ... (Assistant Director)
- Her Favourite Husband ... (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)