Piero Pierotti

{{Short description|Italian director, screenwriter and journalist (1912–1970)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Piero Pierotti | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date text|1 January 1912}} | birth_place = Pisa, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|4 May 1970|1 January 1912}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | resting_place = | spouse = | children = | other_names = Peter E. Stanley | years_active = | occupation = Director }} '''Piero Pierotti''' (1 January 1912 – 4 May 1970) was an Italian director and screenwriter.

== Life and career == Born in Pisa, Pierotti started his career as a journalist, working for ''La Nazione'' and ''Il Nuovo Corriere'', and later founding the newspaper ''Corriere dell'Arno''.<ref name=Enciclop>{{cite book|last=Gianni Canova|title=Enciclopedia del cinema|year=2005|publisher=Garzanti, 2009|isbn=881150516X}}</ref> After some amateur shorts, he moved to Rome where he enrolled in the courses of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1939.<ref name=Enciclop/><ref name=spaghetti>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}}</ref><ref name=bioe2>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> Pierotti later started teaching direction at the University of Pisa, and at the same time he was also active as a documentarist and an assistant director, often collaborating with Raffaello Matarazzo.<ref name=Enciclop/><ref name=spaghetti/><ref name="bioe2"/>

Active as a screenwriter since 1955, in the late 1950s he made his directional debut with ''L'arciere nero'' and he then directed fifteen films until 1969, being mainly active in the adventure and peplum genres.<ref name=Enciclop/><ref name=spaghetti/><ref name="bioe2"/> He was sometimes credited as '''Peter E. Stanley'''.<ref name="bioe2"/>

== Selected filmography == ;Director and screenwriter * ''The Pirate and the Slave Girl'' (1959) * ''Marco Polo'' (1961) * ''A Queen for Caesar'' (1962) * ''Hercules and the Masked Rider'' (1963) * ''The Avenger of Venice'' (1964) * ''Hercules Against Rome'' (1964) * ''Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas'' (1964) * ''Giant of the Evil Island'' (1965) * ''Assault on the State Treasure'' (1967) * ''Heads or Tails'' (1969) ;Screenwriter * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) * ''Guai ai vinti'' (1954) * ''The White Angel'' (1955) * ''The Intruder'' (1956) * ''The Witch's Curse'' (1962) * ''Rome Against Rome'' (1964) * ''Super Seven Calling Cairo'' (1965) * ''The Son of Black Eagle'' (1968)

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== External links == * {{IMDb name|id =0682592}}

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