Aldo Lado

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Aldo Lado

Directing December 5, 1934

Fiume, Istria, Italy [now Rijeka, Croatia]

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…

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The Conformist

The Conformist

7.6 1971 Movie
Farinelli

Farinelli

6.5 1994 Movie
Late Night Trains

Late Night Trains

6.1 1975 Movie
Short Night of Glass Dolls

Short Night of Glass Dolls

6.7 1971 Movie
The Cousin

The Cousin

5.4 1974 Movie
Who Saw Her Die?

Who Saw Her Die?

6.3 1972 Movie
Marquise

Marquise

5.5 1997 Movie
The Humanoid

The Humanoid

3.7 1979 Movie
The Designated Victim

The Designated Victim

6.2 1971 Movie
Day of the Cobra

Day of the Cobra

6.1 1980 Movie
Hollywood Flies

Hollywood Flies

4.4 2005 Movie
Disobedience

Disobedience

4.0 1981 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2012
    Il notturno di Chopin

    Movie Director

  2. 2005
    Hollywood Flies

    Movie Story

  3. 2002
    Death in Venice: Interview with Aldo Lado

    Movie Himself

  4. 1997
    Marquise

    Movie Line Producer

  5. 1994
    Farinelli

    Movie Executive Producer

  6. 1994
    Power and Lovers

    Movie Director

  7. 1993
    Dark Friday

    Movie Director

  8. 1992
    Circle of Fear

    Movie Bearded Cop Talking to Photo Anyalist (uncredited)

  9. 1990
    Ritual of Love

    Movie Screenplay

  10. 1987
    Sahara Heat

    Movie Director

  11. 1983
    La città di Miriam

    Movie Director

  12. 1982
    Mora

    Movie Père d'Aline

  13. 1982
    La pietra di Marco Polo

    TV show Director

  14. 1981
    Disobedience

    Movie Screenplay

  15. 1980
    Day of the Cobra

    Movie Story

  16. 1980
    Crime in Via Teulada

    Movie Writer

More credits
  1. 1979
    The Humanoid

    Movie Director

  2. 1978
    Il prigioniero

    Movie Director

  3. 1976
    Born Winner

    Movie Screenplay

  4. 1975
    Late Night Trains

    Movie Director

  5. 1974
    The Cousin

    Movie Director

  6. 1973
    Woman Buried Alive

    Movie Director

  7. 1972
    La cosa buffa

    Movie Director

  8. 1972
    Blessed Are the Rich

    Movie Screenplay

  9. 1972
    Who Saw Her Die?

    Movie Writer

  10. 1971
    Short Night of Glass Dolls

    Movie Director

  11. 1971
    Million Dollar Eel

    Movie Writer

  12. 1971
    The Designated Victim

    Movie Story

  13. 1971
    The Conformist

    Movie First Assistant Director

  14. 1968
    Cry of Death

    Movie Story

  15. 1967
    Colt in the Hand of the Devil

    Movie Assistant Director