Ugo Gregoretti

Ugo Gregoretti (28 September 1930 – 5 July 2019)^[1] was an Italian film, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host. He directed 20 films during his career.

Ugo Gregoretti
Born	(1930-09-28)28 September 1930 Rome, Italy
Died	5 July 2019(2019-07-05) (aged 88) Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Film director Actor Screenwriter
Years active	1956–2019

Biography

Born in Rome, Gregoretti entered RAI in 1953, working as a documentarist and a director.^[2] In 1960 he won the Premio Italia Award for tv documentary La Sicilia del Gattopardo.^[2] In 1962 he made his first movie: the comedy-drama I nuovi angeli.^[2] Since 1978 he started his activity on stage as director of prose and opera representations.^[2] His activity as director was mainly characterized by a sensitivity to the political and social issues combined to a peculiar use of irony and satire.^[2][3] He was president of Teatro Stabile di Torino, the Turin Permanent Theatre, 1980 thru 1989, and in 1995 he was appointed president of the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.^[4] In 2010 he was awarded with a special Lifetime Nastro d'Argento for his career.^[5]

Filmography

• I nuovi angeli (1962)
• Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
• Omicron (1963)
• Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
• Beautiful Families (1964)
• Apollon: una fabbrica occupata (1969)
• Contratto (1970)
• Antifascisti a Roma (1972)
• Vietnam, scene dal dopoguerra (1975)
• Oltre la guerra, ad Hanoi (1975)
• Dentro Roma (1976)
• La terrazza (only acting, 1980)
• Comunisti quotidiani (1980)
• Sabatoventiquattrimarzo (1984)
• It's Happening Tomorrow (only acting, 1988)
• Maggio musicale [it] (1990)
• La primavera del 2002 - l’Italia protesta, l’Italia si ferma (2002)
• Scossa (2011)
• Io, il tubo e la pizza (unreleased, 2017)