Pietro Germi

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pietro Germi (14 September 1914, Genoa - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting. He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During his time in school, Germi supported himself by working as an extra, bit actor, assistant director, and, on occasion, writer. Germi made his directorial debut in 1945 with the film Il testimone. His early work, this film included, were very much in the Italian Neorealist style; many were social dramas that dealt with contemporary issues pertaining to people of Sicilian heritage. Through the years, Germi shifted away from social drama towards satirical comedies, but retained his loved element of the Sicilian people. In the 1960s, Germi received worldwide success with the films Divorce, Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned, and Signore e Signori. The latter is better known in the English-speaking world as The Birds the Bees and the Italians. He was nominated for Academy Awards in both directing…

Directed

1. Divorce Italian Style (1961) — Director
2. Seduced and Abandoned (1964) — Director
3. Serafino (1968) — Director
4. The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) — Director
5. The Railroad Man (1956) — Director
6. The Facts of Murder (1959) — Director
7. The Path of Hope (1950) — Director
8. Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) — Director
9. In the Name of the Law (1949) — Director
10. The Testimony (1946) — Director
11. Man of Straw (1958) — Director
12. The City Defends Itself (1951) — Director
13. The Climax (1967) — Director
14. Mid-Century Loves (1954) — Director
15. The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo (1952) — Director
16. Lost Youth (1948) — Director
17. Mademoiselle Gobete (1952) — Director
18. Jealousy (1953) — Director
19. A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970) — Director
20. Anglo-Saxon writers and poets in Rome (1947) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Railroad Man (1956) — Andrea Marcocci
2. The Facts of Murder (1959) — Il Dott. Ingravallo
3. The Lovemakers (1961) — Stefano
4. Five Branded Women (1960) — Partisan Commander
5. The Iron Crown (1941) — Cavaliere
6. Man of Straw (1958) — Andrea
7. Lipstick (1960) — Commissario Fioresi
8. A Man Named John (1965) — Pontiff's Father
9. Escape to France (1948) — Tembien
10. Blood Feud (1961) — Bolognesi
11. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
12. Monte Cassino (1946)
13. Marcello, una vita dolce (2006) — Self (archive footage)