{{Short description|Italian film director (1938–2017)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Pasquale Squitieri | image = Pasquale Squitieri.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|11|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Naples]], Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|02|18|1938|11|27|df=y}} | death_place = [[Rome]], Italy | other_names = | spouse = {{marriage|Ottavia Fusco|2013}} | partner = [[Claudia Cardinale]] (1975–2017) | children = 1 | occupation = {{hlist|Film director|screenwriter}} | years_active = 1969–2017 }} '''Pasquale Squitieri''' (27 November 1938 – 18 February 2017<ref>{{cite web|author=Il Mattino|url=https://ilmattino.it/spettacoli/cinema/cinema_morto_registra_squitieri-2267056.html|title= Lutto nel cinema: è morto Squitieri, sceneggiatore e regista |date=18 February 2017 |accessdate=18 February 2017}}</ref>) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
== Life and career == Born in [[Naples]], Squitieri graduated in law, then was briefly involved in stage, as author ("''La battaglia''") and even actor (directed by [[Francesco Rosi]]).<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002}}</ref> He made his film debut with ''[[Io e Dio]]'', produced by [[Vittorio De Sica]], and, after two [[Spaghetti Western]]s he signed as '''William Redford''', he focused on drama films centered on political and social issues.<ref name=bio/> Squitieri's film ''[[I Am the Law (1977 film)|I Am the Law]]'' won the [[David di Donatello]] for [[David di Donatello for Best Film|Best Film]] in 1978.<ref>{{cite web|title=TV: PRESTO IL NUOVO 'PREFETTO DI FERRO'. PROTAGONISTA VINCENT PEREZ|url=http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/tv-presto-il-nuovo-prefetto-di-ferro-protagonista-142900639.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713041244/http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/tv-presto-il-nuovo-prefetto-di-ferro-protagonista-142900639.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 July 2012|publisher=Yahoo! Notizie|accessdate=23 January 2012|date=10 June 2011}}</ref> ''[[Li chiamarono... briganti!]]'', a film about the brigand [[Carmine Crocco]], was suspended from the cinemas and it is not available on the [[home video]] market. Squitieri was the partner of [[Claudia Cardinale]] since 1975.<ref name=bio/> His 1980 film ''[[Savage Breed]]'' was entered into the [[12th Moscow International Film Festival]].<ref name="Moscow1981">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1981 |title=12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981) |accessdate=2013-01-26 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421050907/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1981 |archivedate=21 April 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Since 2003, Squitieri had been romantically linked to actress and singer [[Ottavia Fusco]], whom he had married in December 2013.
==Selected filmography== {{div col}} *''[[Io e Dio]]'' (1969) *''[[Django Defies Sartana]]'' (1970) *''[[Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold]]'' (1971) *''[[Gang War in Naples]]'' (1972) *''[[Blood Brothers (1974 film)|Blood Brothers]]'' (1974) *''[[The Climber (1975 film)|The Climber]]'' (1975) *''[[I Am the Law (1977 film)|I Am the Law]]'' (1977) *''[[Corleone (film)|Corleone]]'' (1978) *''[[L'arma]]'' (1978) *''[[Savage Breed]]'' (1980) *''[[Claretta]]'' (1984) *''[[The Repenter]]'' (1985) *''[[Naso di cane]]'' (1986) (TV miniseries) *''[[The Third Solution]]'' (1988) *''[[Gli invisibili]]'' (1988) *''[[Atto di dolore]]'' (1990) *''[[Il colore dell'odio]]'' (1990) *''[[Geografia della fame]]'' (1991) *''[[Li chiamarono... briganti!]]'' (1999) *''[[L'avvocato de Gregorio]]'' (2003) *''[[Father (2011 film)|Father]]'' (2011) {{div col end}}
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