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Adriano Bolzoni (14 April 1919 – 2003)[1] was an Italian journalist, writer and film director.

Adriano Bolzoni
Born	(1919-04-14)14 April 1919 Cremona, Italy
Died	2003 (aged 83–84) Italy
Occupation	Film director, film producer, screenwriter

Life and career

Born in Cremona, Bolzoni started his career as a journalist, being war correspondent from the front of World War II. Later, he became director of Reporter, a right-wing weekly magazine published between 1959 and 1960 which is best remembered for having Pier Paolo Pasolini as film critic.[2][3] In the 1960s he became editor of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.[2]

Bolzoni entered the cinema industry in 1948, collaborating at the screenplay of the adventure film I contrabbandieri del mare, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero;[4] later he was a prolific screenwriter, arousing some fame with several successful Spaghetti Westerns and poliziotteschi.[4] He was also an occasional director of films and documentaries and an essayist.[4]

Partial filmography

• I'm the Capataz (1951)
• Minnesota Clay (1964) Screenwriter[5]
• Savage Gringo (1966) Screenwriter[6]
• Avenger X (1967) Story[7]

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

• Adriano Bolzoni at IMDb

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