Castellano & Pipolo

{{short description|Italian film directors, screenwriters}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Franco Castellano

|birth_name=Franco Castellano

|birth_date=20 June 1925

|birth_place=Rome, Lazio, Italy

|death_date={{death date and age|1999|12|28|1925|6|20|df=y}}

|death_place=Rome, Lazio, Italy

|occupation=Film director, screenwriter

}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Giuseppe Moccia

|birth_name=Giuseppe Moccia

|birth_date=22 June 1933

|birth_place=Rome, Lazio, Italy

|death_date={{death date and age|2006|8|20|1933|6|22|df=y}}

|death_place=Rome, Lazio, Italy

|occupation=Film director, screenwriter

}}

Castellano & Pipolo is the stage name used by the pair of Italian screenwriters and film directors Franco Castellano{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118142206/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/672371/Adriano-Castellano|title=Adriano Castellano|work=The New York Times|archivedate=November 18, 2015|date=2015|url=http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/672371/Adriano-Castellano}} (1925–1999) and Giuseppe Moccia{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/106571/Giuseppe-Moccia/biography|title=Giuseppe Moccia|accessdate=2017-03-04|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123151548/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/106571/Giuseppe-Moccia/biography |archivedate=2015-11-23 |work=The New York Times |date=2015}} (1933–2006). Together, they wrote the screenplays for about seventy films, and directed twenty films, mainly comedies.{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}{{cite book|last=Giancarlo Colombo|title=Who's Who in Italy|publisher=Who's Who in Italy, 2006}} Their 1984 film Il ragazzo di campagna was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/off-sel/1937-1988/things.html?currentpage=2 |title=Italian Comedy - The State of Things |accessdate=2010-08-01 |work=labiennale.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801062432/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/off-sel/1937-1988/things.html?currentpage=2 |archivedate=1 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}