Giorgio Capitani was born on December 29, 1927 in Paris,
France. He became an Assistant Director in 1946, followed by several years assisting
the direction of a number of films, preferring those of director Vittorio
Cottafavi. In 1953, he decided to debut as a director, directing the Italian
version of “Delirium”. However, after some works with little success, he
dedicated herself to dubbing until 1964, when he again returned to directing
with “La notte è fatta per... rubare” (1967), “L'arcangelo” (1969), “Aragosta a
colazione” (1979) along with several others. From the second half of the
eighties he has mainly been dedicated to the production of drama series and
television movies, with a very broad consensus, among the works of this period,
Capitani was responsible for some of television’s biggest hits: in 1990, the
trilogy ‘Un cane sciolto’ with Sergio Castellitto in the role of judge De
Santis, in 1992, ‘Il coraggio di Anna’and ‘Un figlio a metà’, ‘Un figlio a metà
un anno dopo’ all in 1994, he worked on the screenplay for ‘Italian Restaurant’
in 1996 and has directed several episodes of the series ‘Il maresciallo Rocca’,
with the popular Gigi Proietti in the title role. Unfortunately Giorgio
directed only one Euro-western: “The Ruthless Four” with Van Heflin, Gilbert
Roland, George Hilton and Klaus Kinski, Today we celebrate Giorgio Capitani’s
85th birthday.
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