Ettore Scola

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-05-10 (85 years old)

Deathday

2016-01-19

Place of Birth

Trevico, Campania, Italy

Ettore Scola

Biography

Ettore Scola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛttore ˈskɔːla]; 10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino, Campania. From age 15, he became a ghostwriter. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and collaborated with director Dino Risi and fellow writer Ruggero Maccari on the screenplay for Risi's feature, Il Sorpasso (1962). He directed his first film, Let's Talk About Wom...

Production

1967

Anyone Can Play

as Screenplay

1987

The Family

as Director

1987

The Family

as Screenplay

1987

The Family

as Story

1987

The Family

as Editor

1981

Passion of Love

as Director

1982

1977

A Special Day

as Director

1983

Le Bal

as Director

1985

Macaroni

as Director

1960

1961

1961

Ghosts of Rome

as Screenplay

1965

1965

Made in Italy

as Screenplay

1998

The Dinner

as Director

1965

Thrilling

as Screenplay

1976

1954

Gran varietà

as Writer

1964

1963

The Monsters

as Screenplay

1963

The Monsters

as Dialogue

2003

People of Rome

as Director

1964

1964

One Million Dollars

as Screenplay

1989

What Time Is It?

as Director

1954

2001

Unfair Competition

as Screenplay

2001

1989

Splendor

as Director

1980

The Terrace

as Director

1969

1993

1993

1964

1967

1964

Il gaucho

as Story

1964

Il gaucho

as Screenplay

1968

The Prophet

as Story

1966

1966

The Devil in Love

as Screenplay

1963

Il successo

as Screenplay

1964

1959

1961

1980

The Terrace

as Story

1980

The Terrace

as Screenplay

1958

March's Child

as Screenplay

1977

The New Monsters

as Director

1963

The Monsters

as Story

1962

Il Sorpasso

as Story

1955

1965

Complexes

as Story

1955

The Bachelor

as Screenplay

1963

The Girl from Parma

as Screenplay

1956

Mi permette babbo!

as Screenplay

1954

Mid-Century Loves

as Screenplay

1977

1977

A Special Day

as Screenplay

1959

First Love

as Screenplay

1962

1959

First Love

as Story

1965

1984

1956

1998

The Dinner

as Writer

1971

1969

Police Chief Pepe

as Screenplay

1953

1983

Le Bal

as Writer

1963

The Visitor

as Screenplay

1963

The Visitor

as Story

1954

Una parigina a Roma

as Screenplay

1963

Il successo

as Story

2021

A Bookshop in Paris

as Original Story

1962

Il Sorpasso

as Screenplay

1957

Il conte Max

as Screenplay

1968

The Prophet

as Screenplay

1965

Thrilling

as Story

1963

1955

I pappagalli

as Screenplay

1997

1943-1997

as Scenario Writer

1997

1943-1997

as Director

1965

Thrilling

as Director

1985

Macaroni

as Story

1981

Passion of Love

as Screenplay

1985

Macaroni

as Screenplay

1957

2016

Puccini: La Bohème

as Stage Director

1964

1964

High Infidelity

as Screenplay

1980

Vorrei Che Volo

as Director

1980

Vorrei Che Volo

as Screenplay

1971

1960

Love and Larceny

as Screenplay

1966

1965

I Knew Her Well

as Screenplay

1989

What Time Is It?

as Screenplay

1989

1954

2016

1954

Rosso e nero

as Writer

1965

Complexes

as Screenplay

1962

March on Rome

as Screenplay

1962

1960

1958

Totò in the Moon

as Screenplay

1976

2016

1958

Il marito

as Screenplay

1989

Splendor

as Screenplay

1954

An American in Rome

as Screenplay

1962

Roaring Years

as Screenplay

2003

1953

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La bohème

as Director

1983

Le Bal

as Scenario Writer

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