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Ugo Pirro

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Ugo Pirro
Ugo Pirro (right) on the set of Celluloide, Rome 1996
Ugo Pirro (right) on the set of Celluloide, Rome 1996
BornUgo Mattone
April 20, 1920
Salerno, Italy
DiedJanuary 18, 2008(2008-01-18) (aged 87)
Rome, Italy
OccupationScreenwriter, novelist
LanguageItalian
GenreFiction, screenwriting

Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist.[1][2][3]

Biography

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Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani (Attention! Bandits!, 1951, and The Hunchback of Rome, 1960).[citation needed]

His screenplays of the 1970s include films Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film.[citation needed]

Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being The Camp Followers (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and Celluloide, adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996.[4]

Pirro died in Rome in 2008.[1]

Works

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Films

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Television

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Novels

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References

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  1. ^ a b Obituary in The Times, 21 January 2008
  2. ^ Obituary at BBC News
  3. ^ Biography Archived 2006-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at Rai.it (in Italian)
  4. ^ Sandra Brennan (2015). "Celluloide". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20.
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