Pino Mercanti
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Pino Mercanti | |
---|---|
Born | Giuseppe Mercanti 16 February 1911 Palermo, Italy |
Died | 3 September 1986 Rome, Italy | (aged 75)
Other names | Joseph Trader |
Occupation(s) | Director Screenwriter |
Giuseppe Mercanti, best known as Pino Mercanti (16 February 1911 – 3 September 1986), was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Mercanti was a pioneer of the Sicilian cinema as the leading filmmaker and the artistic director of the production company O.F.S. (a.k.a. Organizzazione Filmistica Siciliana), founded by the brothers Francesco and Girolamo Gorgone with the purpose of promoting the production of films on Sicilian soil.[1][2] Following the bankruptcy of the company, Mercanti moved to Rome, where he directed a number of melodramas, adventure films, Spaghetti Westerns and other genre films, often international co-productions.[1][3] He was sometimes credited as Joseph Trader.[3]
Selected filmography
- For the Love of Mariastella (1945)
- Rome, Free City (1946)
- I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (1948)
- Serenata amara (1952)
- La voce del sangue (1952)
- Revenge of a Crazy Girl (1952)
- I cinque dell'Adamello (1954)
- Tears of Love (1954)
- Primo applauso (1957)
- Knight of 100 Faces (1960)
- The Black Duke (1963)
- Gentlemen of the Night (1964)
- Tres dólares de plomo (1965)
- Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula (1966)
References
- ^ a b Umberto Cantone (14 December 2014). "Pino Mercanti, palermitano di cappa e spada". La Repubblica. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ Alberto Romeo (2009). Storia della fotografia e cinematografia subacquea italiana. La mandragora, 2009. ISBN 978-8875861544.
- ^ a b Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from March 2016
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- 1911 births
- 1986 deaths
- Italian film directors
- 20th-century Italian screenwriters
- Italian male screenwriters
- Film people from Palermo
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- All stub articles
- Italian film biography stubs