Ugo Gregoretti
{{Short description|Italian film director (1930–2019)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Ugo Gregoretti 1961.jpg
| name = Ugo Gregoretti
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|9|28|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Rome, Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|7|5|1930|9|28|df=yes}}
| death_place = Rome, Italy
| occupation = Film director
Actor
Screenwriter
| yearsactive = 1956–2019
}}
Ugo Gregoretti (28 September 1930 – 5 July 2019){{cite news|url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2019/07/05/news/morto_ugo_gregoretti-230447685/|title=È morto Ugo Gregoretti, una vita per il cinema e la tv|work=La Repubblica|date=5 July 2019|access-date=5 July 2019}} was an Italian film, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host. He directed 20 films during his career.
Biography
Born in Rome, Gregoretti entered RAI in 1953, working as a documentarist and a director.{{cite book|author1=Felice Cappa |author2=Piero Gelli |author3=Marco Mattarozzi |title=Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900|year=1998 |publisher=Dalai editore, 1998|isbn=8880892959}} In 1960 he won the Premio Italia Award for tv documentary La Sicilia del Gattopardo. In 1962 he made his first movie: the comedy-drama I nuovi angeli. Since 1978 he started his activity on stage as director of prose and opera representations. His activity as director was mainly characterized by a sensitivity to the political and social issues combined to a peculiar use of irony and satire.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Gregoretti, Ugo|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ugo-gregoretti/|encyclopedia=Enciclopedia Treccani|access-date=4 October 2013}} He was president of Teatro Stabile di Torino, the Turin Permanent Theatre, 1980 thru 1989, and in 1995 he was appointed president of the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.{{cite news|title=Accademia D' Amico arriva Gregoretti|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|date=30 November 1995|page=36}} In 2010 he was awarded with a special Lifetime Nastro d'Argento for his career.{{cite news|title=Nastri d'Argento 2010, omaggio a Trovajoli, Occhini e Gregoretti|url=http://www.megamodo.com/201066699-nastri-d%E2%80%99argento-2010-omaggio-a-trovajoli-occhini-e-gregoretti/|access-date=14 August 2013|newspaper=MegaModo|date=11 May 2010}}
Filmography
- I nuovi angeli (1962)
- Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
- Omicron (1963)
- Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
- Beautiful Families (1964)
- Apollon: una fabbrica occupata (1969)
- Contratto (1970)
- Antifascisti a Roma (1972)
- Vietnam, scene dal dopoguerra (1975)
- Oltre la guerra, ad Hanoi (1975)
- Dentro Roma (1976)
- La terrazza (only acting, 1980)
- Comunisti quotidiani (1980)
- Sabatoventiquattrimarzo (1984)
- It's Happening Tomorrow (only acting, 1988)
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Maggio musicale|it|3=Maggio musicale (film)}} (1990)
- La primavera del 2002 - l’Italia protesta, l’Italia si ferma (2002)
- Scossa (2011)
- Io, il tubo e la pizza (unreleased, 2017)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0339683|Ugo Gregoretti}}
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Category:Italian film directors
Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian screenwriters