Renato Castellani

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1913-09-04 (72 years old)

Deathday

1985-12-28

Place of Birth

Finale Ligure, Liguria, Italy

Renato Castellani

Biography

Renato Castellani (4 September 1913 – 28 December 1985) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Son of a representative of Kodak, he was born in Varigotti, at the time a hamlet of Final Pia, which became Finale Ligure (Savona) in 1927, where his mother had returned from Argentina to give birth to his son. He spent his childhood in Argentina, in the city of Rosario. After 12 years, he returned to Liguria and resumed his studies in Genoa. He moved to Milan, where he graduated from the Polytechnic University in architecture. In Milan he met Livio Castiglioni and together they aired for GUF (Fascist University Group) L'ora radiofonica and...

Production

1958

Resurrection

as Screenplay

1967

1941

The Iron Crown

as Screenplay

1964

1964

Controsesso

as Director

1954

Romeo and Juliet

as Director

1948

1963

Crazy Sea

as Director

1952

1961

The Brigand

as Director

1944

Zazà

as Director

1944

Zazà

as Screenplay

1946

1942

Malombra

as Screenplay

1957

1969

A Brief Season

as Director

1942

A Pistol Shot

as Director

1942

A Pistol Shot

as Screenplay

1948

1959

Hell in the City

as Director

1963

Crazy Sea

as Screenplay

1963

Crazy Sea

as Story

1969

The Archangel

as Screenplay

1945

In High Places

as Screenplay

1942

The Jester's Supper

as Screenplay

1939

Department Store

as First Assistant Director

1939

Department Store

as Screenplay

1964

1961

The Brigand

as Screenplay

1944

1938

The Cuckoo Clock

as Screenplay

1936

Il grande appello

as Assistant Director

1964

1946

Professor, My Son

as Screenplay

1946

1940

A Hundred Thousand Dollars

as First Assistant Director

1954

Romeo and Juliet

as Adaptation

1967

1982

Verdi

as Director

1940

1946

Notte di tempesta

as Adaptation

1957

I sogni nel cassetto

as Production Design

1944

1969

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