Ugo Pirro | |
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Born | Ugo Mattone April 20, 1920 Salerno, Italy |
Died | January 18, 2008 Rome, Italy | (aged 87)
Occupation | Screenwriter, novelist |
Language | Italian |
Genre | Fiction, screenwriting |
Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist. [1] [2] [3]
Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani ( Achtung! Banditi!, 1951, and Il gobbo, 1960).[ citation needed]
His screenplays of the 1970s include films Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto and Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film.[ citation needed]
Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being Le soldatesse (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]