Italian writer/director Alberto Lattuada is the son of famed composer Felice Lattuada, who scored several of Lattuada's films. After studying to be an architect at the Berchet School in Milan, Lattuada supplemented his income as a newspaper and magazine writer. He entered the Italian film industry in 1933 as a set decorator, graduating to "assistant in charge of color" in 1935. Five years later, he directed his first film. With Luigi Comencini, Lattuada founded Italy's first film archive, Cinetica Italiana, in 1941; that same year he published a popular coffee-table volume, The Photographic Atlas. Stepping up his directing activities in the postwar years, Lattuada specialized in stylish costume pictures, often adapted from famous novels. His ventures into neorealism--Bandit (1946), Anna (1951)--tended to be slicker and more professional-looking than the similar efforts of his contemporaries. He gave the career of Federico Fellini a boost in 1950, when he and Fellini co-directed the well-received Variety Lights (the film's budget was provided up by a corporation formed by Lattuada, Fellini and their actress wives). The best of Lattuada's subsequent films include The Overcoat (1953) and Fraulein Doktor (1967). He did a great deal of TV work in the 1970s and 1980s, notably the 1985 U.S.-Italian miniseries Christopher Columbus. From 1970 onward, Lattuada kept busy outside the movie industry as an opera director. Alberto Lattuada was once married to actress Carla Del Poggio.
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The Fine Art of Love
Screenwriter |
2005 | |||
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Il Toro
Actor |
1994 | |||
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Una Spina Nel Cuore
Director, Screenwriter |
1986 | |||
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Christopher Columbus
Director, Screenwriter |
1985 | |||
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La Cicala
Director, Screenwriter |
1980 | |||
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Cosi come sei
Director, Screenwriter |
1978 | |||
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Cuore Di Cane
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1975 | |||
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La Bambina
Director |
1975 | |||
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Le Faro Da Padre
Director, Screenwriter |
1974 | |||
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Sono Stato Io
Director, Screenwriter |
1973 | |||
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Bianco, Rosso e...
Director, Screenwriter |
1971 | |||
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Venga a Prendere il Caffe da Noi
Director, Screenwriter |
1970 | |||
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Fräulein Doktor
Director, Screenwriter |
1969 | |||
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L'Amica
Director |
1969 | |||
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Don Giovanni in Sicilia
Director |
1967 | |||
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Matchless
Director, Screenwriter |
1967 | |||
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Mandragola
Director, Screenwriter |
1966 | |||
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La Steppa
Director, Screenwriter |
1962 | |||
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Mafioso
Director |
1962 | |||
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L'Improvisto
Director |
1961 | |||
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Lettere Di Una Novizia
Director, Screenwriter |
1961 | |||
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I Dolci Inganni
Director |
1960 | |||
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Les Adolescentes
Director |
1960 | |||
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La Tempesta
Director, Screenwriter |
1958 | |||
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Guendalina
Director |
1956 | |||
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Un Eroe Dei Nostri Tempi
Actor |
1955 | |||
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La Pensionnaire
Director, Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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Riviera
Director |
1954 | |||
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L'Amore in Città
Director |
1953 | |||
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La Lupa
Director |
1953 | |||
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Il Cappotto
Director |
1952 | |||
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Anna
Director |
1951 | |||
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Variety Lights
Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Il Delitto di Giovane Episcopo
Director |
1950 | |||
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Il Bandito
Director |
1949 | |||
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Il Mulino Del Po
Director |
1949 | |||
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Senza Pietà
Director |
1949 | |||
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La Freccia Nel Fianco
Director |
1943 |