Sergio Grieco

Sergio Grieco
Born(1917-01-13)13 January 1917
Codevigo, Veneto, Italy
Died30 March 1982(1982-03-30) (aged 65)
Rome, Italy
OccupationsFilm director
Screenwriter
Years active1950–1977

Sergio Grieco (13 January 1917 – 30 March 1982) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.[1] In addition to working under his own name, he also used the pseudonym Terence Hathaway.[2]

Biography

Sergio Grieco was born on 13 January 1917 in Codevigo, Veneto, Italy.[3][4] His father was the Italian Communist politician Ruggero Grieco.[5] He was taken to France by his parents as a baby, and attended schools in Paris.[4] His interest in cinema began after winning a school art contest; a prize which included being able to assist the operator of the school's cinema. After completing high school, he began his career in film in Paris as an assistant to avant-garde film maker Germaine Dulac.[4]

Grieco traveled to Russia, Soviet Union for a family event, and there obtained employment as third assistant to Nikolai Ekk.[4] For Ekk he worked on the first Soviet sound film Road to Life (1931).[6] He married a Russian woman and had children there.[7] He began his Italian film career as a script supervisor in 1939, working his way up to an assistant director the following year. In 1949 he worked as an assistant to René Clément on his film The Walls of Malapaga (1949).

His directorial debut was Il sentiero dell'odio (1950), beginning a prolific career in a variety of genres. He met his wife Teresa Terrone (renamed Susan Terry by her agent), who appeared in several of his films, beginning with The Mysterious Swordsman/Lo spadaccino misterioso in 1955.[8]

He directed nearly 40 films between 1950 and 1977, often also writing his own screenplays. Grieco is best known for his adventure, swashbuckler, sword and sandal and Eurospy films with Ken Clark, including the Secret Agent 077 series of imitation James Bond films, which he directed under the pseudonym 'Terence Hathaway' (see filmography). His final film was The Mad Dog Killer (1977). Grieco also co-wrote the screenplay for The Inglorious Bastards (1978).

His nephew is David Grieco, who has worked as a writer, producer and director.[9]

Grieco died on 30 March 1982 in Rome.[3]

Filmography as director

References

  1. ^ Crowther, Bosley; Archer, Eugene (October 6, 1960). "The Screen: A Realistic Slice of New York Life:' Weddings and Babies' Bows at New Yorker Viveca Lindfors Stars in Morris Engel Film". The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ Parish, James Robert (1976). "GRIECO, SERGIO (a.k.a. Terence Hathaway)". Film Directors Guide--Western Europe. Scarecrow Press. pp. 134–135.
  3. ^ a b Doyle, Billy H.; Slide, Anthony (1999). The Ultimate Directory of Film Technicians: A Necrology of Dates and Places of Births and Deaths of More Than 9,000 Producers, Directors, Screenwriters, Composers, Cinematographers, Art Directors, Costume Designers, Choreographers, Executives, and Publicists. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 107. ISBN 9780810835467.
  4. ^ a b c d Bozzini, Lidio (1958). "Sergio Grieco". L'Unitalia Film Presents Italian Directors. Unitalia Film. p. 118.
  5. ^ Miccichè, Lino (1998). Visconti e il neorealismo: Ossessione, La terra trema, Bellissima. Marsilio Editori. p. 33. ISBN 9788831768566.
  6. ^ Blake, Matt (16 October 2014). "Italian westerns in the forests of the Sila, an interview with Sergio Grieco | The Wild Eye". Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  7. ^ Monetti, Domenico; Pallanch, Luca (2023). "Maurizio Amati: Il Cinema Si Impara Facendolo". Per i soldi o per la gloria: Storie e leggende dei produttori italiani dal dopoguerra alle tv private. Minimum fax. ISBN 9788833894737.
  8. ^ "L'ATTRICE SUSAN TERRY SI RACCONTA A DARKSIDECINEMA.IT : DALL'AMORE PER SERGIO GRIECO ALL'AMICIZIA CON FEDERICO FELLINI". Darkside Cinema. November 30, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  9. ^ "David Grieco". IMDb. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  10. ^ Girac-Marinier, Carine, ed. (2011). "Grieco, Sergio". Dictionnaire Mondial du Cinéma. Paris: Éditions Larousse. p. 444. ISBN 9782035843463.
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Hathaway