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
- 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
- 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
- Payment in Blood ... (Story)
- Die Easy in Ghentar ... (Executive Producer)
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat ... (Story)
- Granada, addio! ... (Director)
- Two R-R-Ringos from Texas ... (Director)
1966
- A Few Dollars for Django ... (Producer)
- Spiaggia libera ... (Director)
- 7 Golden Monks ... (Director)
1965
- Veneri in collegio ... (Director)
1964
- Le tardone ... (Director)
- Bullet in the Flesh ... (Director)
- Venus in the Sun ... (Director)
- These Mad, Mad Women ... (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)
- Twist, lolite e vitelloni ... (Director)
- Il medico delle donne ... (Director)
- L'assassino si chiama Pompeo ... (Director)
1961
- Walter e i Suoi Cugini ... (Producer)
- Le magnifiche 7 ... (Director)
- Bellezze sulla spiaggia ... (Producer)
- La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo ... (Director)
- Un figlio d'oggi ... (Director)
- Scandali al mare ... (Director)
1960
- Ferragosto in Bikini ... (Director)
- Caccia al marito ... (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)
- Buongiorno primo amore! ... (Director)
- Sette canzoni per sette sorelle ... (Director)
- There Is a Path in the Sky ... (Director)
- Vivendo, cantando, che male ti fò? ... (Director)
- La canzone del destino ... (Director)
1956
- Cantando sotto le stelle ... (Director)
1955
- Ore 10: lezione di canto ... (Director)
- La ragazza di Via Veneto ... (Screenplay)
1954
- Ridere! Ridere! Ridere! ... (Story)
- I Sing for You ... (Director)
- Il cantante misterioso ... (Director)
1953
- Lasciateci in pace ... (Director)
- Era lei che lo voleva! ... (Director)
- Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice ... (Story)
1952
- Noi due soli ... (Director)
- Poppy ... (Co-Director)
1951
- Milano miliardaria ... (Director)
- It's Him!... Yes! Yes! ... (Co-Director)
- Il mago per forza ... (Co-Director)
- Seven Hours of Troubles ... (Co-Director)
- City of Violence ... (Director)
1950
- The Thief of Venice ... (Assistant Director)
- I'm in the Revue ... (Assistant Director)
- Fugitive Lady ... (Director)
- Her Favourite Husband ... (First Assistant Director)
- Miss Italia ... (First Assistant Director)
1948
- Escape to France ... (Second Assistant Director)
- Under the Sun of Rome ... (First 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)