Dino Risi

Dino Risi
Born	23 December 1916(1916-12-23) Milan, Italy
Died	7 June 2008(2008-06-07) (aged 91) Rome, Italy
Years active	1946 - 2002

Dino Risi (December 23, 1916 – June 7, 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of Commedia all'italiana. He was born in Milan.

At the age of 12 Risi became an orphan and was looked after by relatives and friends of his family.^[1] He studied medicine and later became a psychiatrist.

Risi started his career in cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. Later he began directing his own films and was credited with giving early opportunities to future acting stars such as Sophia Loren and Vittorio Gassman.^[1]

His biggest hits were Poor, But Handsome (Poveri ma belli), followed by two sequels, which he also directed; A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile); The Easy Life (Il sorpasso); Opiate '67 or, in a cut version, 15 From Rome (I Mostri); and Scent Of A Woman (Profumo di Donna), which was remade by Martin Brest starring Al Pacino in 1992.

In 2002, he was awarded the Golden Lion – Honorary Award (Leone d'oro alla carriera) at the Venice Film Festival for his life-time work. Two of his films, Il giovedì and Il commissario Lo Gatto, were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.^[2]

He died on June 7, 2008 at his residence in Rome. He was 91 and is survived by two children, Claudio and Marco (film director).^[1]

Filmography

See also Category:Films directed by Dino Risi

• Verso la vita (1947)
• Vacanze col gangster (1952)
• Il viale della speranza (1953)
• L'amore in città (episode "Paradiso per 4 ore", 1953)
• Il segno di Venere (1955)
• Pane, amore e... (1955)
• Poveri ma belli (1956)
• La nonna Sabella (1957)
• Belle ma povere (1957)
• Venezia, la luna e tu (1959)
• Il vedovo (1959)
• Poveri milionari (1959)
• Il mattatore (1959)
• Un amore a Roma (1960)
• A porte chiuse (1961)
• A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile, 1961)
• The Easy Life (Il sorpasso, 1962)
• March on Rome (La marcia su Roma, 1962)
• Il giovedì (1963)
• I mostri (1963)
• Le bambole (episode "La telefonata", 1965)
• Il gaucho (1965)
• I complessi (episode "Una giornata decisiva", 1965)
• L'ombrellone (1966)
• I nostri mariti (episode "Il marito di Attilia", 1966)
• Operazione San Gennaro (1966)
• Il Tigre (1967)
• Straziami, ma di baci saziami (1968)
• Il profeta (1968)
• Vedo nudo (film 1969)|Vedo nudo (1969)
• Il giovane normale (1969)
• In nome del popolo italiano (1971)
• La moglie del prete (1971)
• Noi donne siamo fatte così (1971)
• Mordi e fuggi (1973)
• Sessomatto (1973)
• Profumo di donna (1974)
• The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
• Anima persa (1977)
• La stanza del vescovo (1978)
• I nouvi mostri (episodes "Con i saluti degli amici", "Tantum ergo", "Pornodiva", "Mammina mammona" and "Senza parole", 1978)
• Primo amore (film 1978)|Primo amore (1978)
• Caro papà (1979)
• Sono fotogenico (1980)
• Sunday Lovers/I seduttori della domenica (episode "Roma", 1980)
• Fantasma d'amore (1981)
• Sesso e volentieri (1982)
• ...e la vita continua (TV, 1984)
• Dagobert (1984)
• Scemo di guerra (1985)
• Teresa (1987)
• Il commissario Lo Gatto (1987)
• Il vizio di vivere (1989)
• Tolgo il disturbo (1990)
• Giovani e belli (1996)
• Esercizi di stile (episode "Myriam", 1996)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Italian director Dino Risi dies, BBC
2. ^ "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/off-sel/1937-1988/. Retrieved 2010-08-01. 

External links

• Dino Risi at the Internet Movie Database
• BBC obituary

Persondata
Name	Risi, Dino
Alternative names
Short description	Film director
Date of birth	1916-12-23
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
Date of death	2008-6-7
Place of death	Rome, Italy