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
Tonino (2017)
as Self
Flaiano: il meglio è passato (2010)
as Himself
High School (1954)
as Professore di religione
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022)
as Self
Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954)
as Alfredo Campolmi
Celluloide (1996)
as Civalleri (uncredited)
The Haunting of Helena (2013)
Actor
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
as Self
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane (2011)
as Self
The Caiman (2006)
as Franco Caspio
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017)
as Self
The Legal Death (2018)
Actor
At the Edge of the City (1953)
as don Antonio
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)
as Self
The Assassin (1961)
Actor
L'abbiamo fatta grossa (2016)
as Generale
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
as Self - Filmmaker
Attention! Bandits! (1951)
as Lorenzo
The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953)
as Don Pietro Lisandrini
Un eroe borghese (1995)
as Roberto Calvi
Voi siete qui (2011)
as Self
The Most Wonderful Moment (1957)
as Don Grazzini
Noi c'eravamo (2011)
as Self
Abandoned (1955)
as Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
Il segreto di Otello (2015)
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
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things (2006)
as Self
Raccontare Venezia (2017)
as Self
Everything You Want (2017)
as Giorgio
The Long Silence (1993)
as Procuratore Capo
The Girls of San Frediano (1955)
as Venturini
The Years of Lost Images (2012)
as Self
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso (2009)
Actor
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni (2012)
as Self
One Hour Only (2023)
as Giuliano
Vera & Giuliano (2020)
Actor
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi? (2025)
as Self
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms (2007)
as Self