Giorgio Simonelli

{{short description|Italian film director and film editor (1901–1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Giorgio Simonelli | image = Giorgio C. Simonelli.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date text|14 November 1901}} | birth_place = [[Rome]], Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|3 October 1966|14 November 1901}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | resting_place = | spouse = | children = | years_active = | occupation = Director, screenwriter }} '''Giorgio Simonelli''' (14 November 1901<ref name=statearchives>{{cite web|url=http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/v/Archivio+di+Stato+di+Roma/Stato+civile+italiano/Roma/Nati/1901/n+5372-5968+Vol+10+Parte+1+Serie+A/007659511_01172.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=0 |title=Immagine 143 / Image 143 [ Birth certificate no 5782 serial A ] |date= 19 November 1901 |access-date= 27 December 2016 |publisher=Archivio di Stato di Roma / States Archives in Rome > Antenati: Gli Archivi per la Ricerca Anagrafica / Ancestors: Archives for Research Registry |language=it}} Birth name: Giorgio Simonelli.</ref> – 3 October 1966), was an Italian film director, editor, screenwriter and journalist.

==Life and career== Born in [[Rome]], Simonelli got a high school diploma in business studies, and then started working as a journalist and as a film critic for the weekly magazines ''Avvenimento'' and ''Gente nostra''.<ref name=reg>{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712|pages=402–403}}</ref> In 1928, at 22, he made his directorial debut co-directing with [[Nicola Fausto Neroni]] ''Maratona'', and two years later he was among the screenwriters of the first Italian talking film, ''[[The Song of Love (1930 film)|The Song of Love]]'' by [[Gennaro Righelli]].<ref name=reg/> From 1934 Simonelli mainly devoted himself to film editing, then, from 1940, he resumed his activity as a director specialising in commercially successful comedy films, in which he directed some of the most popular actors of the period, notably [[Totò]], [[Eduardo De Filippo|Eduardo]] and [[Peppino De Filippo]], [[Nino Taranto]], [[Renato Rascel]], [[Walter Chiari]], [[Ugo Tognazzi]], [[Erminio Macario|Macario]], [[Alberto Sordi]] and [[Aldo Fabrizi]].<ref name=reg/> He ended his career by filming many successful works interpreted by the comedy duo [[Franco and Ciccio]].<ref name=reg/> His last film was the western-parody ''[[I due figli di Ringo|Two Sons of Ringo]]'', in which shortly before the end of filming he was replaced by [[Giuliano Carnimeo]] for health reasons.<ref name=jdg>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770|pages=164–165}}</ref>

==Selected filmography==

=== Director === * ''[[The Cuckoo Clock (film)|The Cuckoo Clock]]'' (1938) * ''[[A Husband for the Month of April]]'' (1941) * ''[[The Two Tigers (film)|The Two Tigers]]'' (1941) * ''[[Two Hearts Among the Beasts]]'' (1943) * ''[[Eleven Men and a Ball]]'' (1948) * ''[[The Transporter (1950 film)|The Transporter]]'' (1950) * ''[[I'm the Capataz]]'' (1951) * ''[[Auguri e figli maschi!]]'' (1951) * ''[[La paura fa 90]]'' (1951) * ''[[I, Hamlet]]'' (1952) * ''[[Passionate Song]]'' (1953) * ''[[Saluti e baci]]'' (1953) * ''[[Love Song (1954 film)|Love Song]]'' (1954) * ''[[It Happened at the Police Station]]'' (1954) * ''[[Noi siamo due evasi]]'' (1959) * ''[[Robin Hood and the Pirates]]'' (1960) * ''[[Ursus in the Land of Fire]]'' (1961) *''[[I due mafiosi]]'' (1964) * ''[[Two Mafiamen in the Far West]]'' (1964) * ''[[Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger]]'' (1965) * ''[[Two Sergeants of General Custer]]'' (1965) * ''[[I due toreri]]'' (1965) * ''[[Two Sons of Ringo]]'' (1966)

=== Screenwriter === * ''[[The Song of Love (1930 film)|The Song of Love]]'' (1930) * ''[[Fountain of Trevi (film)|Fountain of Trevi]]'' (1960) * ''[[The Hot Port of Hong Kong]]'' (1962)

=== Film editor === * ''[[The Blue Fleet]]'' (1932) * ''[[Paradise (1932 film)|Paradise]]'' (1932) * ''[[La Wally (film)|La Wally]]'' (1932) * ''[[Seconda B]]'' (1934) * ''[[Loyalty of Love]]'' (1934) * ''[[Don Bosco (1935 film)|Don Bosco]]'' (1935) * ''[[Golden Arrow (1935 film)|Golden Arrow]]'' (1935) * ''[[Cavalry (1936 Italian film)|Cavalry]]'' (1936) * ''[[Queen of the Scala]]'' (1937) * ''[[Mother Song]]'' (1937) * ''[[Luciano Serra, Pilot]]'' (1938) * ''[[Battles in the Shadow]]'' (1938) * ''[[The Widow (1939 film)|The Widow]]'' (1939) * ''[[Cardinal Messias]]'' (1939) * ''[[No Man's Land (1939 film)|No Man's Land]]'' (1939) * ''[[A Thousand Lire a Month]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Thrill of the Skies]]'' (1940) * ''[[A Husband for the Month of April]]'' (1941)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0800547}}

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