Giuliano Montaldo
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Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
Known for
Credits
Ennio (2022)
as Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022)
as Self
The Caiman (2006)
as Franco Caspio
The Haunting of Helena (2013)
Actor
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017)
as Self
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
as Self
Celluloide (1996)
as Civalleri (uncredited)
High School (1954)
as Professore di religione
The Assassin (1961)
Actor
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso (2009)
Actor
Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954)
as Alfredo Campolmi
Attention! Bandits! (1951)
as Lorenzo
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)
as Self
Everything You Want (2017)
as Giorgio
At the Edge of the City (1953)
as don Antonio
The Most Wonderful Moment (1957)
as Don Grazzini
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things (2006)
as Self
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
as Self - Filmmaker
Il segreto di Otello (2015)
as Self
The Long Silence (1993)
as Procuratore Capo
L'abbiamo fatta grossa (2016)
as Generale
The Girls of San Frediano (1955)
as Venturini
Tonino (2017)
as Self
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane (2011)
as Self
Un eroe borghese (1995)
as Roberto Calvi
Noi c'eravamo (2011)
as Self
Western all'italiana (2004)
Actor
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces (2024)
as Self
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2004)
as Self - Interviewee
The Doll that Took the Town (1957)
Actor
Abandoned (1955)
as Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
The Years of Lost Images (2012)
as Self
The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953)
as Don Pietro Lisandrini
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni (2012)
as Self
Raccontare Venezia (2017)
as Self
Voi siete qui (2011)
as Self
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms (2007)
as Self
Vera & Giuliano (2020)
Actor
One Hour Only (2023)
as Giuliano
The Legal Death (2018)
Actor
Flaiano: il meglio è passato (2010)
as Himself
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi? (2025)
as Self