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Giovanni Grimaldi
Giovanni Grimaldi
	Grimaldi in 1960
Born	14 November 1917; Catania, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy
Died	25 February 2001 (aged 84); Rome, Lazio, Italy
Years active	1952–1983

Giovanni Grimaldi (14 November 1917 – 25 February 2001) was an Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director. He was sometimes credited as Gianni Grimaldi.^[1]

Biography

Born in Catania, Sicily, Grimaldi entered the cinema industry in 1952 as a screenwriter of a large number of often highly successful films, frequently working together with Bruno Corbucci.^[2] Since 1964 he became a prolific director of comedy films, often working with Lando Buzzanca and with the couple Franco and Ciccio.^[2]

Aside from films, Grimaldi was a journalist, a collaborator and even the director of several Italian humor magazines such as Trilussa, Candido and Marc'Aurelio.^[2] He was also a radio author, a playwright and a television director. He was the father of the director and screenwriter Aldo Grimaldi.^[2]

Selected filmography

Director and screenwriter

Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone (1965)
In a Colt's Shadow (1965)
James Tont operazione U.N.O. (1965)
The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid (1967)
I 2 deputati (1968)
Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968)
Un caso di coscienza (1970)
Il magnate (1973)
La governante (1974)
Il fidanzamento (1975)

Screenwriter

I, Hamlet (1952)
Matrimonial Agency (1953)
It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955)
Allow Me, Daddy! (1956)
Who Hesitates is Lost (1960)
The Two Marshals (1961)
Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita (1961)
Gladiators 7 (1962)
The Slave (1962)
Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962)
The Two Colonels (1962)
Toto's First Night (1962)
Toto vs. Maciste (1962)
The Monk of Monza (1963)
Toto vs. the Four (1963)
Totò Diabolicus (1963)
Toto and Cleopatra (1963)
Sexy Toto (1963)
I due mafiosi (1964)
Tears on Your Face (1964)
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964)
Toto of Arabia (1965)
Latin Lovers (1965)
Mi vedrai tornare (1966)
4 Dollars of Revenge (1966)
Nel sole (1967)
Angeli senza paradiso (1970)
Paths of War (1970)
When Women Were Called Virgins (1972)
The Inconsolable Widow Thanks All Those Who Consoled Her (1973)

Sources

^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.