Giuseppe Vari

{{Short description|Italian film director, editor and screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Giuseppe Vari | image = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1924|3|9}} | birth_place = Segni | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1993|10|1|1924|3|9}} | death_place = Rome | occupation = film director }} '''Giuseppe Vari''' (9 March 1924 – 1 October 1993) was an Italian film director, editor and screenwriter.

== Life and career== Born in Segni, Rome, Vari started his career as an editor of films and documentaries, collaborating among others with Federico Fellini, Damiano Damiani and Giorgio Simonelli.<ref name=fvf>{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002}}</ref><ref name=Giusti>{{cite book|first=Marco|last= Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year= 2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-88-04-57277-0}}</ref> In 1953 he made his directorial debut with ''Infame accusa'', then specialized in melodramatic films.<ref name=fvf/><ref name=Giusti/> From the early sixties he focused on genre films, especially Spaghetti Westerns, sometimes being credited as '''Joseph Warren'''.<ref name=fvf/><ref name=Giusti/>

== Filmography ==

=== Director === * ''Infame accusa'', (also screenwriter, 1953) * ''Due lacrime'', (1954) * ''Mamma, perdonami!'', (1954) * ''Vendicata!'', (1955) * ''Addio sogni di gloria'', (also screenwriter, 1955) * ''Il ricatto di un padre'', (also screenwriter, 1957) * ''Giovane canaglia'', (also screenwriter, 1958) * ''Spavaldi e innamorati'', (1959) * ''Revenge of the Barbarians'', (1960) * ''Attack of the Normans'', (1962) * ''Canzoni in... bikini'', (1963) * ''Rome Against Rome'', (1964) * ''Degueyo'', (also screenwriter, 1966) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''Poker with Pistols'', (1967) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''Death Rides Along'', (1967) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''The Last Killer'', (also editor, 1967) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''A Hole in the Forehead'', (also editor, 1968) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''Un posto all'inferno'', (also editor, 1969) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead'', (also editor, 1971) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''The Last Traitor'', (also screenwriter, 1971) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?'', (1972) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''The Ribald Decameron'', (1972) - under the name of Walter Pisani * ''Lady Dynamite'' (1973) - under the name of Al Pisani * ''Metti... che ti rompo il muso'', (1973) * ''Legend of the Sea Wolf'', (1975) - under the name of Joseph Green * ''Sister Emanuelle'', (also editor, 1977) - under the name of Joseph Warren * ''Return of the 38 Gang'', (also screenwriter and editor, 1977) * ''Urban Warriors'', (1987) - under the name of Joseph Warren

=== Screenwriter === * ''The Attic'', directed by Gianni Puccini (1962)

=== Film Editor === * ''Il vento mi ha cantato una canzone'', directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (1947) * ''Accidenti alla guerra!...'', directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1948) * ''Love and Poison'', directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1949) * ''The Transporter'', directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1950) * ''The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue'', directed by Paolo W. Tamburella (1951) * ''La peccatrice dell'isola'', directed by Sergio Corbucci (1952) * ''Il Bidone'', directed by Federico Fellini (1955) * ''The Reunion'', directed by Damiano Damiani (1963) * ''Quella dannata pattuglia'', directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero (1969)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0889966}}

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