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Luciano Martino

Italian film producer, director (1933–2013) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Luciano Martino (22 December 1933 – 14 August 2013) was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.

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Biography

Born in Naples, the brother of the director and screenwriter Sergio Martino, he was active in the cinema industry since the early fifties.[1]

After several credits as screenwriter and assistant director he made his directorial debut with the eurospy film Secret Agent Fireball.[1] Among the screenplays he collaborated The Whip and the Body by Mario Bava, Arizona Colt by Michele Lupo and the Lamberto Bava's giallo Delirium.[1] In the seventies he produced and co-wrote a long series of successful commedie sexy all'italiana including Ubalda, All Naked and Warm, Giovannona Long-Thigh and The School Teacher, which launched the career of Edwige Fenech, with whom he was engaged at the time.[1][2] With the decline of the genre he focused on television, producing TV series and television films.[2]

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Death

Martino died of a pulmonary edema in his house in Malindi, Kenya.[2]

Selected filmography (as producer)

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