Enzo G. Castellari
Enzo G. Castellari | |
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Born | Enzo Girolami 29 July 1938 Rome, Italy |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1960–present |
Enzo G. Castellari (born as Enzo Girolami, 29 July 1938) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Early life
Castellari was born in Rome[1] into a family of filmmakers. His father was a boxer turned film maker Marino Girolami.[2] His uncle is filmmaker Romolo Guerrieri and his brother was actor Ennio Girolami. He initially was a boxer like his father and went to school to get a degree in architecture.[2]
Career
Castellari began work on film assisting with various jobs on sets of his father's films.
By the early 1970s, Castellari began exploring other genres as well such as the thriller Cold Eyes of Fear (1971), the comedy Hector the Mighty (1972), and the comedic swashbuckler The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976).[2] He directed his first poliziotteschi film with High Crime starring Franco Nero.[2] Nero and Castellari formed a relationship with the film and work together for seven features.[2]
Castellari later noted his work with Nero, stating "I think that to have an actor like Franco Nero is one of the best things that can happen to a director...if it had been possible, I would have made all my films with him"[3] Nero would work with Castellari on the Western Keoma which was only a mild success[clarification needed] in Italy on its release, but would later be praised as one of Castellari's best films.[2][3] Castellari created further poliziotteschi films in the late 1970s as well as the war film The Inglorious Bastards.[2] Castellari was offered to direct the film Zombi 2, but turned it down as he did not feel he would be the right director for a horror film.[2][4]
In the 1980s the popularity of the
In the 1990s, Castellari's work was mostly dedicated to made-for-television productions.[4] Castellari made a comeback film in 2010 with Caribbean Basterds, a film which received a theatrical release in Italy which was a rarity for locally made genre films at the time.[4] Castellari cameoed as a German mortar squad commander in The Inglorious Bastards, and Quentin Tarantino cast Castellari in the cameo role of a German general in his film Inglourious Basterds (2009), which was inspired by Castellari's 1978 film.[5]
In October 2014 Castellari was awarded at the Almería Western Film Festival.[6]
Filmography
Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | Ref(s) | |||
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Director | Writer | Producer | Other | ||||
Renegade Riders | 1966 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Credited as E.G. Rowland | [7] | |
Any Gun Can Play | 1967 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
One Dollar Too Many | 1968 | Yes | [7] | ||||
Johnny Hamlet | 1968 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone | 1968 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Eagles Over London | 1969 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Cold Eyes of Fear | 1970 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Hector the Mighty | 1971 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Sting of the West | 1972 | Yes | [7] | ||||
High Crime | 1973 | Yes | Yes | Role of a Reporter | [7] | ||
Street Law | 1974 | Yes | [7] | ||||
Cry, Onion! | 1975 | Yes | Role of the Mexican in the market | [7] | |||
The Loves and Times of Scaramouche | 1975 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Keoma | 1976 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
The Big Racket | 1976 | Yes | Yes | Role of the Cowardly Storekeeper | [7] | ||
The Heroin Busters | 1978 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
The Inglorious Bastards | 1977 | Yes | Role of a German Officer | [7] | |||
The House by the Edge of the Lake | 1979 | Yes | [8] | ||||
The Shark Hunter | 1979 | Yes | Role of Il killer | [7] | |||
Day of the Cobra | 1980 | Yes | Role of Warehouse Thug | [7] | |||
The Last Shark | 1981 | Yes | [7] | ||||
1990: The Bronx Warriors | 1982 | Yes | Yes | Role of the Vice President | [7] | ||
The New Barbarians | 1982 | Yes | Yes | Credited as Enzo Girolami | [7] | ||
Escape from the Bronx | 1983 | Yes | Yes | Role of the Radio Operato | [7] | ||
Tuareg – The Desert Warrior | 1984 | Yes | Yes | Role of a Prison Guard | [7] | ||
Light Blast | 1985 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Hammerhead | 1987 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Jonathan of the Bears | 1994 | Yes | Yes | [7] | |||
Caribbean Basterds | 2010 | Yes | [7] |
References
- ^ Curti 2013, p. 289.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Curti 2013, p. 290.
- ^ OCLC 756484421.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Curti 2013, p. 291.
- Reed Business Information. Reed Elsevier Inc. Archivedfrom the original on 29 August 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
- Joly Digital. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab "Films". Enzo G Castellari Official Website. Archived from the original on 13 August 2003. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ISBN 978-1476629605.
Bibliography
- Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968–1980. McFarland. ISBN 9780786469765.
External links
- Enzo G. Castellari at IMDb
- Enzo G. Castellari-biography on (re)Search my Trash
- Castellari: Action Italian Style tribute publication dedicated to Enzo G. Castellari and his films