{{short description|Italian film director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Giorgio Capitani | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|12|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|3|25|1927|12|29|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Viterbo]], Italy | occupation = [[Film director]]<br>[[Screenwriter]] | years_active = 1949–2017 }}

'''Giorgio Capitani''' (29 December 1927 &ndash; 25 March 2017<ref name = Leggo>{{cite news|url=http://www.leggo.it/spettacoli/televisione/e_morto_giorgio_capitani_papa_maresciallo_rocca-2339732.html| title=Morto Giorgio Capitani, il papà del Maresciallo Rocca|date=25 March 2017|access-date=25 March 2017|work=[[Leggo]]}}</ref>) was an Italian [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]]. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 2012. He also wrote for 12 films. He was born in Paris, France.

== Filmography ==

=== Director ===

==== Cinema ==== {{Div col|colwidth=50em}}* ''[[Delirio (1954 film)|Delirio]]'' (co-directed by "[[Pierre Billon (director)|Pierre Billon]]" (1954)) * ''[[Piscatore 'e Pusilleco]]'' (1954) * ''[[Il piccolo vetraio]]'' (1955) * ''[[La trovatella di Milano]]'' (1956) * ''[[Donne senza paradiso – La storia di San Michele]]'' (( Axel Munthe – The Doctor of San Michele ), co-authored by "[[Rudolf Jugert]]" (1962)) * ''[[Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili]]'' (1964) * ''[[Che notte, ragazzi!]]'' (1966) * ''[[Ognuno per sé]]'' signed under the pseudonym George Holloway (1968) * ''[[La notte è fatta per... rubare]]'' (1968) * ''[[L'arcangelo]]'' (1969) * ''[[La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no]]'' (1973) * ''[[La pupa del gangster]]'' (1975) * ''[[Bruciati da cocente passione]]'' (1976) * ''[[Pane, burro e marmellata]]'' (1977) * ''[[Io tigro, tu tigri,egli tigra]]'' ((second and third episode), with "[[Paolo Villaggio]]" and "[[Enrico Montesano]]" (1978)) {{Div col end}}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0135167|Giorgio Capitani}}

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