Luciano Salce

Biography

Luciano Salce (25 September 1922 – 17 December 1989) was an Italian film director, comedian, television host, producer, actor and lyricist. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. As a writer of pop music, he used the pseudonym Pilantra. During World War II, he was a prisoner in Germany. He later worked for several years in Brazil.

Directed

1. Fantozzi: White Collar Blues (1975) — Director
2. The Second Tragic Fantozzi (1976) — Director
3. Vieni avanti cretino (1982) — Director
4. Medicine Italian Style (1969) — Director
5. Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978) — Director
6. The Fascist (1961) — Director
7. Crazy Desire (1962) — Director
8. Duck in Orange Sauce (1975) — Director
9. The Precarious Bank Teller (1980) — Director
10. Kiss the Other Sheik (1965) — Director
11. To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday (1974) — Director
12. Il... Belpaese (1977) — Director
13. The Queens (1966) — Director
14. La cuccagna (1962) — Director
15. High Infidelity (1964) — Director
16. Snow Job (1965) — Director
17. Let's Make It Clear (1984) — Director
18. I Married You for Fun (1967) — Director
19. Basta guardarla (1970) — Director
20. How I Learned to Love Women (1966) — Director
21. Riavanti… Marsch! (1979) — Director
22. Professor Kranz german in Germany (1978) — Director
23. The Union (1972) — Director
24. The Hours of Love (1963) — Director
25. Floradas na Serra (1954) — Director
26. The Black Sheep (1968) — Director
27. La Presidentessa (1977) — Director
28. El Greco (1966) — Director
29. The Little Nuns (1963) — Director
30. Coup D'Etat (1969) — Director
31. Quelli del casco (1988) — Director
32. Io e lui (1973) — Director
33. Uma Pulga na Balança (1953) — Director
34. Il provinciale (1971) — Director
35. Le pillole di Ercole (1960) — Director
36. The Innocents Abroad (1983) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Vieni avanti cretino (1982) — Se stesso (uncredited)
2. The Fascist (1961) — Tenente Rudolf (uncredited)
3. Di che segno sei? (1975) — Leonardo
4. The Landlord (1976) — Prof. Eduardo Settebeni
5. Kiss the Other Sheik (1965) — Arturo Rossi
6. The Shortest Day (1963) — Ufficiale tedesco (uncredited)
7. Totò in the Moon (1958) — Von Braut
8. Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973) — Enrico
9. Piccola posta (1955) — Proprietario del cane Wotan
10. Do Not Commit Adultery (1971) — Damiano Liguori
11. Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) — Il critico d'arte
12. Three Tough Guys (1974) — The Bishop
13. The Policeman on Horseback (1961) — prete
14. Latin Male Wanted (1977) — col. Guido Fiasconi
15. Fancy a Woman (1978) — Il matto
16. Basta guardarla (1970) — Farfarello
17. Anyone Can Play (1967) — Psychiater
18. The Household (1974) — The Director
19. Homo Eroticus (1971) — Achille Lampugnani
20. Belli e brutti ridono tutti (1979) — Santucci
21. Amore mio non farmi male (1974) — Carlo Foschini
22. I prosseneti (1976) — Giorgio
23. A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers (1980) — Paolo Lavetti
24. Ride bene... chi ride ultimo (1977) — maresciallo dei carabinieri/Bepi Pastorino
25. Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe (1976) — barone Alfonso Lamia
26. I baccanali di Tiberio (1960) — il colonnello
27. Tipi da spiaggia (1959) — dottor Ionescu
28. City Under Siege (1974) — Paolo Ferrero
29. Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do? (1972) — Maresciallo Dorigo
30. La Presidentessa (1977) — Bortignon
31. Son tornate a fiorire le rose (1975) — Carlo Foschini
32. The Lady Has Been Raped (1973) — monsignore
33. Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses (1970) — Carlo Valcini
34. The Married Priest (1970) — Monsignor Torelli
35. Coup D'Etat (1969) — Self (uncredited)
36. Tanto va la gatta al lardo... (1978) — Dino / Amilcare Severi
37. Hector the Mighty (1972) — Mercurio
38. My Dear Nephews (1974) — Don Vittorio
39. Maid, Thief and Guard (1958) — Il conte Tedesco
40. Ridendo e scherzando (1978) — Lucio Sartori