Spaghetti Western Director ~ Sergio Grieco
Sergio Grieco was an Italian film director and screenwriter. In addition to working under his own name, he also used the pseudonym, Terence Hathaway.
Grieco was born on January 13, 1917, in Codevigo, Veneto, Italy. His father was the Italian Communist politician Ruggero Grieco. He was taken to France by his parents as a baby and attended schools in Paris. His interest in cinema began after winning a school art contest; a prize which included being able to assist the operator of the school's cinema. After completing high school, he began his career in film in Paris as an assistant to avant-garde film maker Germaine Dulac.
Grieco traveled to Russia, Soviet Union for a family event, and there obtained employment as third assistant to Nikolai Ekk. For Ekk he worked on the first Soviet sound film “Road to Life” (1931). He married a Russian woman and had children there. He began his Italian film career as a script supervisor in 1939, working his way up to an assistant director the following year. In 1949 he worked as an assistant to René Clément on his film “The Walls of Malapaga” (1949).
His directorial debut was “Il sentiero dell'odio” (1950), beginning a prolific career in a variety of genres. He met his wife Teresa Terrone (who used the alias Susan Terry), who appeared in several of his films, beginning with “Lo spadaccino misterioso” (The Mysterious Swordsman) in 1955.
He directed nearly 40 films between 1950 and 1977, often also writing his own screenplays. Grieco is best known for his adventure, swashbuckler, sword and sandal and Eurospy films with Ken Clark, including the Secret Agent 077 series of imitation James Bond films, which he directed under the pseudonym 'Terence Hathaway'. His final film was “The Mad Dog Killer” (1977). Grieco also co-wrote the screenplay for “The Inglorious Bastards” (1978).
His nephew is David Grieco, who has worked as a writer, producer and director.
Grieco died on March 30, 1982, in Rome at the age of 65.
Sergio Grieco directed on Spaghetti western, “Tutti fratelli nel west… per parte di padre (Where the Bullets Fly) in 1972.
GRIECO, Sergio (aka Terence Hathaway) [1/13/1917,
Codevigo, Veneto, Italy – 3/30/1982, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – director, assistant
director, writer, son of politician Ruggero Grieco married to ? father of ?,
married to actress Susan Terry (Teresa
Terrone) [1914-2004] (1954-1982),
uncle of producer, director, writer David Grieco [1951- ].
Hot Wind from the
West – 1976 [film was never made.]
Where the Bullets
Fly – 1972
Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Giuseppe Colizzi
Giuseppe Colizzi was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his contributions to the Spaghetti western genre and for directing films starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. Born in Rome on June 28, 1925, he began his career in the film industry in 1948 as an assistant director, working with notable Italian filmmakers such as Luigi Zampa before transitioning to directing, writing, and producing in the 1960s.
Colizzi gained recognition for his spaghetti western trilogy featuring recurring characters Cat Stevens (Terence Hill) and Hutch Bessy (Bud Spencer): ''God Forgives... I Don't!'' (1967), ''Ace High'' (1968), and ''Boot Hill'' (1969). These films marked his early collaborations with the popular duo. He later shifted toward action-adventure comedies, directing the highly successful ''All the Way Boys'' (1972) starring Hill and Spencer, a film that further contributed to their popularity in European cinema. Colizzi's work often blended elements of western action with humor, contributing to the evolution of the genre and the success of the Hill-Spencer partnership.
He continued directing films such as ''Run, Run, Joe!'' (1974) before his death on August 23, 1978 at the age of only 53, leaving behind a legacy in Italian popular cinema of the 1960s and 1970
Giuseppe Colizzi wrote screenplays for three Spaghetti westerns which he also directed: “Dio perdona... io no!” (God Forgives… I Don’t) with Gumersindo Mollo in 1966, “I quattro dell’Ave Maria” (Ace High) in 1967 and “La collina degli stivali” (Boot Hill) in 1969.
COLIZZI, Giuseppe (aka G. Colizzi)
[6/28/1925, Rome, Lazio, Italy – 8/23/1978, Rome, Lazio, Italy (heart disease)]
– producer, production manager, director, assistant director, songwriter,
writer, nephew of producer, director, assistant director, writer, Luigi Zampa
[1905-1991].
God Forgives... I
Don’t! – 1966 (co)
Ace High – 1967
Boot Hill - 1969
Spaghetti Western Animator ~ Stanislav Látal
Stanislav Látal was a Czech film director, animator, and puppeteer known
for his specialization in puppet animation and his significant contributions to
Czechoslovak animated cinema during its mid-20th-century prominence.
Born on May 7, 1919, in the village of Samotišky near Olomouc in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, he developed expertise in stop-motion and puppet techniques that defined much of his career, establishing him as one of the leading animators in the country alongside contemporaries such as Jiří Trnka.
Látal frequently collaborated with Jiří Trnka, contributing as an animator to landmark puppet-animated features including “The Emperor's Nightingale” (1949), “Old Czech Legends” (1953), and “A Midsummer Night's Dream” (1959). As a director, he created numerous short films and several feature-length works, with notable examples including “Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, a “Sailor from York” (1982) and “Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka” (1986), his final directing credit. His body of work also extended to television, where he animated episodes of the long-running series Pan Tau between 1970 and 1978.
Active over several decades until his retirement after 1986, Látal helped sustain and advance the distinctive tradition of Czech puppet animation through his directorial vision, technical skill, and collaborations within the industry. He died in Prague on August 4, 1994, at the age of 75.
LATAL, Stanislav (Stanislav Látal) [5/7/1919, Samotišky,
Czechoslovakia – 8/4/1994, Prague, Czech Republic] – director, animator,
puppeteer.
Song of the Prairie
– 1949 (co)
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