Known For
Directing
Born
Dec 05, 1934
Died
Nov 25, 2023
Place of Birth
Fiume, Istria, Italy [now Rijeka, Croatia]
Credits
31 titles
Aldo Lado
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Il notturno di Chopin
Director
Hollywood Flies
Story
Death in Venice: Interview with Aldo Lado
Himself
Marquise
Line Producer
Farinelli
Executive Producer
Power and Lovers
Director
Dark Friday
Director
Circle of Fear
Bearded Cop Talking to Photo Anyalist (uncredited)
Ritual of Love
Director
Sahara Heat
Director
La città di Miriam
Director
Mora
Père d'Aline
La pietra di Marco Polo
Director
Disobedience
Director
Day of the Cobra
Story
Crime in Via Teulada
Writer
The Humanoid
Director
Il prigioniero
Director
Born Winner
Director
Late Night Trains
Director
The Cousin
Director
Woman Buried Alive
Director
La cosa buffa
Director
Blessed Are the Rich
Screenplay
Who Saw Her Die?
Writer
Short Night of Glass Dolls
Director
Million Dollar Eel
Writer
The Designated Victim
Story
The Conformist
First Assistant Director
Cry of Death
Story
Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Assistant Director