Marcello Fondato
Marcello Fondato ( born January 8, 1924 in Rome, † November 13, 2008 in San Felice Circeo ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Life and work
Fondato began in the late 1950s as a screenwriter for Luigi and Mario Bava Comencini. Soon he became an assistant director on Aldo Molinari and others. With many interesting directors he worked in the 1950s and up to the middle of the next decade on numerous entertainment films together; these include the horror films The Three Faces of Fear and Blood and Black Lace and Spaghetti Western The four vultures of the Sierra Nevada and settlement in Veracruz.
As a director, he was responsible in 1968 for a film about gangsterism in Sardinia for a few comedies, including for Two thick as thieves ( with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill ) and Charleston - Two fists clean up (also with Bud Spencer, for the he also other projects skriptete ). In 1985 he also shot a one-off TV movie.
Since 1990 Fondato lived in San Felice Circeo, where he founded a " Teatro Stabile" and directed. Also a piece, Il Timido, was written for the ensemble.