Aldo Lado
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"The directorial début of Aldo Lado, Short Night of the Glass Dolls stands at the crossroads of two distinct schools of film-making in Italy: the giallo mystery-thriller and the political art-house film."--100 European Horror Films (2019) by Steven Jay Schneider |
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Aldo Lado (1934 – 2023) was an Italian film director known internationally for his contributions to the giallo genre during the 1970s, through his films Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Who Saw Her Die? (1972).
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Biography
Lado was born in Fiume, Italy (today Rijeka, Croatia) on 5 December 1934.
He came up through the film industry as an assistant director, notably to Bernardo Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970). After writing the story for the 1971 giallo The Designated Victim, he made his directorial debut later that year with Short Night of Glass Dolls. Lado took the job after two previous directors, Maurizio Lucidi and Antonio Margheriti, fell through. The film was a success, and he followed it with another giallo, Who Saw Her Die?.
Lado's subsequent films were in a variety of genres, including drama (Woman Buried Alive, The Cousin), romance (La cosa buffa), and horror (Last Stop on the Night Train). In 1979, he directed the Star Wars cash-in The Humanoid, for which he was credited under the George Lucas-esque pseudonym "George B. Lewis". In 1981, he directed the Alberto Moravia adaptation La disubbidienza.
In 2013, after a 20-year hiatus, he directed the film Il Notturno di Chopin.
Lado published his first short story in 2016, in the anthology Nuovi delitti di lago. In 2017 he published I film che non vedrete mai ('The films you will never see'), a compilation based on Lado's own unproduced screenplays.
Lado died on the morning of 25 November 2023 at his home in Rome, after a brief illness, at the age of 88.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Short Night of Glass Dolls | |
| 1972 | Who Saw Her Die? | |
| La cosa buffa | ||
| 1973 | Woman Buried Alive | |
| 1974 | The Cousin | |
| 1975 | Last Stop on the Night Train | |
| 1976 | L'ultima volta | |
| 1979 | The Humanoid | |
| 1981 | La disubbidienza | |
| 1987 | Scirocco | |
| 1989 | Rito d'amore | |
| 1992 | Alibi perfetto | |
| 1993 | Venerdì nero | |
| 1994 | La chance | |
| 2013 | Il Notturno di Chopin |
Television
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Il prigioniero | Television film |
| 1979 | Il était un musicien | 1 episode |
| 1980 | Delitto in Via Teulada | Television film |
| 1982 | La pietra di Marco Polo | |
| 1986 | I figli dell'ispettore | Television film |
| 1991 | La stella del parco | 13 episodes |
Pages linking in at time of death
Alibi perfetto, Anita Strindberg, Barbara Alberti, Beati i ricchi, Christian De Sica, Claudia Giannotti, Dante Spinotti, Day of the Cobra, Digitmovies AE, Domenico Paolella, Don't Look Now, Edda Dell'Orso, Eleonora Giorgi, Ennio Morricone, Enrico Maria Salerno, Fabio Frizzi, Fiona Gélin, Flavio Bucci, Francis Perrin (actor), Franco Fabrizi, Giallo, Giambattista Avellino, Giuseppe Berto, Horror film score, Il notturno di Chopin, Ingrid Thulin, Istrian Italians, Ivan Rassimov, Jemma Redgrave, José Quaglio, La cosa buffa, La disubbidienza, La pietra di Marco Polo, Last Stop on the Night Train, Laura Betti, List of film and television directors, List of Italian film directors, List of science fiction films of the 1970s, List of thriller films of the 1970s, Luigi Cozzi, Macha Méril, Mario Adorf, Million Dollar Eel, Nicoletta Elmi, Ovidio G. Assonitis, Pino Donaggio, Rijeka, Rito d'amore, Scirocco (film), Semka Sokolović-Bertok, Short Night of Glass Dolls, Teresa Ann Savoy, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cousin, The Designated Victim, The Humanoid (film), Venerdì nero, Venice in media, Who Saw Her Die?, Woman Buried Alive
