Luciano Salce

Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce in 1965
Born	(1922-09-25)25 September 1922 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died	17 December 1989(1989-12-17) (aged 67) Rome, Italy
Cause of death	Heart attack
Nationality	Italian
Other names	Pilantra
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1961-1988
Spouse	Diletta D'Andrea
Children	Emanuele

Luciano Salce (25 September 1922 in Rome – 17 December 1989 in Rome) was an Italian film director and actor. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

As a writer of pop music, he used the pseudonym Pilantra. During World War II, he was a prisoner in Germany. He later worked for several years in Brazil.

Selected filmography

• A Yank in Rome (1946) - L'ufficiale americano
• A Flea on the Scales (1953)
• The Fascist (1961) - German officer
• Le pillole di Ercole (1962)
• La voglia matta (1962)
• La cuccagna (1962)
• Le ore dell'amore (1963)
• Alta infedeltà (1964)
• El Greco (1964)
• Slalom (1965)
• The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965)
• Le fate (1966)
• Come imparai ad amare le donne (1967)
• Ti ho sposato per allegria (1967)
• La pecora nera (1968)
• Colpo di stato (1969) - Himself
• Il Prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste, convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
• Il provinciale (1971)
• Basta guardarla (1972)
• Il sindacalista (1972)
• Io e lui (1973)
• Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974)
• Il domestico (1974)
• L'anatra all'arancia (1975)
• Fantozzi (1975)
• L'affittacamere (1976)
• Il secondo tragico Fantozzi (1976)
• La presidentessa (1977)
• Il... Belpaese (1977)
• Dove vai in vacanza? (1978)
• Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania (1978)
• Riavanti... marsch! (1979)
• Rag. Arturo De Fanti, bancario precario (1980) - Paolo Lavetti
• Vieni avanti cretino (1982) - Himself (uncredited)
• Vediamoci chiaro (1984)
• Quelli del casco (1988)

Bibliography

• Andrea Pergolari, Verso la commedia. Momenti del cinema di Steno, Salce, Festa Campanile, Firenze Libri, Rome, 2002.
• Andrea Pergolari, Emanuele Salce, Luciano Salce: Una vita spettacolare, Edilazio, Rome, 2009.

External links

• Luciano Salce at IMDb