Steno (director)
Appearance
Stefano Vanzina | |
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Born | |
Died | March 13, 1988 | (aged 73)
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, Cinematographer |
Years active | 1949-1988 |
Steno, the artistic name of Stefano Vanzina (19 January 1915 – 13 March 1988) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Two of his films, Un giorno in pretura (1954) and Febbre da cavallo (1976), were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.[1]
Selected filmography
- In High Places (1943)
- Annabella's Adventure (1943)
- Black Eagle (1946)
- The Courier of the King (1947)
- The Captain's Daughter (1947)
- The Wolf of the Sila (1949)
- Totò cerca casa (1949)
- A Night of Fame (1949)
- A Dog's Life (with Mario Monicelli, 1950)
- È arrivato il cavaliere! (with Mario Monicelli, 1950)
- Her Favourite Husband (1950)
- Cops and Robbers (with Mario Monicelli, 1951)
- Totò a colori (1952)
- Le infedeli (1953)
- Man, Beast and Virtue (1953)
- Un americano a Roma (1954)
- Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova (1955)
- Nero's Weekend (1956)
- Totò nella luna (1958)
- I Tartassati (1959)
- Tempi duri per i vampiri (1959)
- Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito (1959)
- Letto a tre piazze (1960)
- The Two Colonels (1962)
- Totò Diabolicus (1963)
- Toto vs the Four (1963)
- Letti sbagliati (1965)
- Caprice Italian Style (1968)
- Execution Squad (1972)
- Flatfoot (1973)
- Policewoman (1974)
- Febbre da cavallo (1976)
- Double Murder (1977)
- Amori miei (1978)
- La patata bollente (1979)
- Quando la coppia scoppia (1981)
- Banana Joe (1982)
References
- ^ "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Retrieved 2010-08-01.