Luciano Martino (22 December 1933 – 14 August 2013) was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.
Luciano Martino | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 December 1933 Naples, Italy |
| Died | 14 August 2013 (aged 79) Malindi, Kenya |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, director, screenwriter |
| Spouse | |
| Relatives | Sergio Martino (brother) |
Biography
editBorn 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 Quel gran pezzo dell'Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda, 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]
Death
editMartino died of a pulmonary edema in his house in Malindi, Kenya.[2]
Selected filmography (as producer)
edit- Who Hesitates Is Lost (1960)
- The Warrior Empress (1960)
- Flashman (1967)
- Madame Bovary (1969)
- The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) a.k.a. Blade of the Ripper
- The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
- All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
- Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
- The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
- My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow (1972)
- The Violent Professionals (1973)
- Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
- The Great Alligator River (1979)
- Island of the Fishmen (1979)
- Concorde Affaire '79 (1979)
- Eaten Alive! (1980)
- Cannibal Ferox (1980)
- The Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)
- Ironmaster (1983)
- A Blade in the Dark (1983)
- 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
- Blastfighter (1984)
- Miami Golem (1985)
- Hands of Steel (1986) a.k.a. Fists of Steel, a.k.a. Atomic Cyborg
References
edit- ^ a b c d Gianni Canova. Enciclopedia del cinema. Garzanti, 2005.
- ^ a b c "Morto il regista e produttore Luciano Martino Scrisse l'Ubalda e Giovannona coscialunga" [Director and Producer Luciano Martino Died. He Invented the 'B Movie' and the French Phenomenon]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 14 August 2013. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
