Aldo Lado

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Aldo Lado
Born(1934-12-05)5 December 1934
Fiume, Italy
(present-day Rijeka, Croatia)
Died25 November 2023(2023-11-25) (aged 88)
Rome, Italy
Other namesGeorge B. Lewis
Occupations
  • Director
  • screenwriter
  • author
Years active1968–20??

Aldo Lado (5 December 1934 – 25 November 2023) was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter and author.

cult classics
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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).[2] 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.[3] 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 (

The Humanoid, for which he was credited under the George Lucas-esque pseudonym "George B. Lewis".[5] 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.[6][7][8][9]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Notes
1971 Short Night of Glass Dolls
1972 Who Saw Her Die?
La cosa buffa
1973 Woman Buried Alive
1974 The Cousin
1975 Last Stop on the Night Train
1976 L'ultima volta
1979
The Humanoid
1981 La disubbidienza
1987 Scirocco
1989 Rito d'amore
1992 Alibi perfetto
1993 Venerdì nero
1994 La chance
2013 Il Notturno di Chopin

Television

Year Title Notes
1978 Il prigioniero Television film
1979 Il était un musicien 1 episode
1980 Delitto in Via Teulada Television film
1982 La pietra di Marco Polo
1986 I figli dell'ispettore Television film
1991 La stella del parco 13 episodes

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