Cast & creator
Giuliano Montaldo
Best known for Marco Polo, Marco Polo, Ennio
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.
Also known as: Elio Montesti, Giuliano Monteldo
95
film credits
4
television credits
43
1951–2025 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (99)
Showing 99 of 99 credits
Marco Polo
Screenplay
1982Marco Polo
Director
1982
Ennio
Self
2022
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Director #2
1985
The Battle of Algiers
Second Unit
1966The Battle of Algiers
Second Unit Director
1966
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Second Unit Director
1975
Machine Gun McCain
Director
1969Machine Gun McCain
Writer
1969Un’isola
Screenplay
1986
Sacco & Vanzetti
Director
1971Sacco & Vanzetti
Story
1971Sacco & Vanzetti
Screenplay
1971
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
2022
The Haunting of Helena
2013
The Fifth Day of Peace
Director
1970The Fifth Day of Peace
Writer
1970
Giovanna
Production Manager
1955
Giordano Bruno
Director
1973Giordano Bruno
Screenplay
1973
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Director
1987The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Screenplay
1987
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
2017
The Entrepreneur
Director
2011The Entrepreneur
Screenplay
2011The Entrepreneur
Story
2011
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self
2005
And Agnes Chose to Die
Director
1976And Agnes Chose to Die
Screenplay
1976And Agnes Chose to Die
Dialogue
1976
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Self
2011
Time to Kill
Director
1989Time to Kill
Screenplay
1989
Everything You Want
Giorgio
2017
Celluloide
Civalleri (uncredited)
1996
The Wide Blue Road
Assistant Director
1957
The Demons of St. Petersburg
Director
2008The Demons of St. Petersburg
Screenplay
2008
Kapo
Co-Director
1960
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Generale
2016
The Assassin
1961The Assassin
First Assistant Director
1961
The Years of Lost Images
Self
2012
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
Alfredo Campolmi
1954
The Most Wonderful Moment
Don Grazzini
1957
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Director
1984
The Girls of San Frediano
Venturini
1955
High School
Professore di religione
1954
Control
Director
1987Control
Screenplay
1987Flaiano: il meglio è passato
Himself
2010
The Caiman
Franco Caspio
2006
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Closed Circuit
Director
1978Closed Circuit
Screenplay
1978
The Doll that Took the Town
1957
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Self
2006
Il segreto di Otello
Self
2015
Grand Slam
Director
1967
Un eroe borghese
Roberto Calvi
1995Rome, November 12, 1994
Director
1995
Esterina
First Assistant Director
1959
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Self
2006
Duel of Champions
Screenplay
1961
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Self - Interviewee
2004
At the Edge of the City
don Antonio
1953
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Don Pietro Lisandrini
1953
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Self
2024
Noi c'eravamo
Self
2011
Pigeon Shoot
Director
1961Pigeon Shoot
Screenplay
1961
L'oro di Cuba
Director
2009L'oro di Cuba
Story
2009L'oro di Cuba
Screenplay
2009
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Self
2012
Voi siete qui
Self
2011
A Dangerous Toy
Director
1979A Dangerous Toy
Screenplay
1979
Tonino
Self
2017
The Long Silence
Procuratore Capo
1993
Abandoned
Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
1955
Extraconiugale
Screenplay
1964Extraconiugale
Director
1964
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
Self
2007
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
Self
2025
Attention! Bandits!
Lorenzo
1951Years of the Eagle
Director
1997
Nudi per vivere
Director
1963
The Legal Death
2018
The Reckless
Screenplay
1965The Reckless
Director
1965Western all'italiana
2004
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
Director
1984
Raccontare Venezia
Self
2017
One Hour Only
Giuliano
2023
Turandot
Director
1983
Arlecchino
Director
1983