Aldo Lado
Cunoscut Pentru
Directing
Born
December 5, 1934 (age 91)
Birth Place
Fiume, Istria, Italy [now Rijeka, Croatia]
Died
November 25, 2023
Biografie
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). 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. 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 (Woman Buried Alive, The Cousin), romance (La cosa buffa), and horror (Last Stop on the Night Train). In 1979, he directed the Star Wars cash-in The Humanoid, for which he was credited under the George Lucas-esque pseudonym "George B. Lewis". 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.
Lado came up through the film industry as an assistant director, notably to Bernardo Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970). 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. 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 (Woman Buried Alive, The Cousin), romance (La cosa buffa), and horror (Last Stop on the Night Train). In 1979, he directed the Star Wars cash-in The Humanoid, for which he was credited under the George Lucas-esque pseudonym "George B. Lewis". 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.
Filmografie
Il notturno di Chopin
2012 — writer
Il notturno di Chopin
2012 — director
Il notturno di Chopin
2012 — producer
Il notturno di Chopin
2012 — editor
Hollywood Flies
2005 — story
Hollywood Flies
2005 — writer
Death in Venice: Interview with Aldo Lado
2002 — Himself
Marquise
1997 — line producer
Farinelli
1994 — executive producer
Power and Lovers
1994 — story
Power and Lovers
1994 — writer
Power and Lovers
1994 — director