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  • BIRTH 05/12/1934
  • DEATH 25/11/2023
  • Country Croatia
  • DIRECTOR 6
  • SCRIPT 8
  • PRODUCTION 1

Aldo Lado

Aldo Lado was born in Fiume, Italy (today Rijeka, Croatia) on 5 December 1934.

Lado came up through the film industry as an assistant director, notably to Bernardo Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970). After writing the story for the 1971 giallo The Designated Victim, he made his directorial debut later that year with Short Night of Glass Dolls. Lado took the job after two previous directors, Maurizio Lucidi and Antonio Margheriti, fell through. The film was a success, and he followed it with another giallo, Who Saw Her Die?.

Lado's subsequent films were in a variety of genres, including drama (Woman Buried Alive, The Cousin), romance (La cosa buffa), and horror (Last Stop on the Night Train). In 1979, he directed the Star Wars cash-in The Humanoid, for which he was credited under the George Lucas-esque pseudonym "George B. Lewis". In 1981, he directed the Alberto Moravia adaptation La disubbidienza.

In 2013, after a 20-year hiatus, he directed the film Il Notturno di Chopin.

Lado published his first short story in 2016, in the anthology Nuovi delitti di lago. In 2017 he published I film che non vedrete mai ('The films you will never see'), a compilation based on Lado's own unproduced screenplays.

Lado died at his home in Rome on the morning of 25 November 2023, at the age of 88.

Aldo Lado

Director (6)

L'ultimo treno della notte
L'ultimo treno della notte
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro
Chi l'ha vista morire?
Chi l'ha vista morire?
La chance
La chance
La disubbidienza
La disubbidienza
Delitto in via Teulada
Delitto in via Teulada

Script (8)

L'ultimo treno della notte
L'ultimo treno della notte
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro
Carogne si nasce
Carogne si nasce
La chance
La chance
La disubbidienza
La disubbidienza
Il giorno del cobra
Il giorno del cobra
Delitto in via Teulada
Delitto in via Teulada
Chi l'ha vista morire?
Chi l'ha vista morire?

Production

Farinelli
Farinelli