Luciano Martino (22 December 1933 – 14 August 2013) was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.
Luciano Martino | |
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Born | (1933-12-22)22 December 1933 Naples, Italy |
Died | 14 August 2013(2013-08-14) (aged 79) Malindi, Kenya |
Occupation | Film producer, director, screenwriter |
Spouse(s) | Edwige Fenech
(m. 1971; div. 1979) |
Relatives | Sergio Martino (brother) |
Born in Naples, the brother of the director and screenwriter Sergio Martino, he was active in the cinema industry since the early fifties.[1]
After several credits as screenwriter and assistant director he made his directorial debut with the eurospy film Secret Agent Fireball.[1] Among the screenplays he collaborated The Whip and the Body by Mario Bava, Arizona Colt by Michele Lupo and the Lamberto Bava's giallo Delirium.[1] In the seventies he produced and co-wrote a long series of successful commedie sexy all'italiana including Quel gran pezzo dell'Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda, Giovannona Long-Thigh and The School Teacher, which launched the career of Edwige Fenech, with whom he was engaged at the time.[1][2] With the decline of the genre he focused on television, producing TV series and television films.[2]
Martino died of a pulmonary edema in his house in Malindi, Kenya.[2]
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