Ugo Pirro

Writer

Born: April 26, 1920 (87 years old)

Died: January 18, 2008

Place of birth: Salerno, Campania, Italy

Biography

Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist. His screenplays include films Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Garden of the Fizi-Continis, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film.

Filmography (40)

• The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971, ★ 7.8)
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, ★ 8.2)
• Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005, ★ 6.7)
• Navajo Joe (1966, ★ 6.2)
• Operation Ogre (1979, ★ 6.9)
• We Still Kill the Old Way (1967, ★ 6.6)
• Law of Courage (1994, ★ 6.9)
• Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973, ★ 7.2)
• One Russian Summer (1973, ★ 7.9)
• Attention! Bandits! (1951, ★ 6.1)
• Men and Wolves (1957, ★ 6.6)
• The Wild Eye (1967, ★ 6)
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, ★ 6.9)
• Metello (1970, ★ 5.8)
• A Boy from Calabria (1987, ★ 6.5)
• Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976, ★ 6.7)
• The Camp Followers (1965, ★ 6.7)
• Il generale dorme in piedi (1974, ★ 6.4)
• The Most Wonderful Moment (1957, ★ 6)
• The Inheritance (1976, ★ 6.3)
• Cerasella (1959, ★ 6.6)
• The Battle of Sutjeska (1973, ★ 6.5)
• The Hunchback (1960, ★ 6.6)
• Chronicle of a Homicide (1972, ★ 5.5)
• Blood Brothers (1974, ★ 6.2)
• Empty Eyes (1953, ★ 7.1)
• The Battle of Neretva (1969, ★ 6.8)
• Sardinia Kidnapped (1968, ★ 5.7)
• Wake Up and Die (1966, ★ 6.3)
• The Nymph (1996, ★ 5.3)