| Adriano Bolzoni | |
| Birth Date: | 14 April 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Cremona, Italy |
| Death Place: | Italy |
| Occupation: | Film director, film producer, screenwriter |
Adriano Bolzoni (14 April 1919 - 2003)[1] was an Italian journalist, writer and film director.
Born in Cremona, Bolzoni started his career as a journalist, being war correspondent from the front of World War II. Later, he became director of Reporter, a right-wing weekly magazine published between 1959 and 1960 which is best remembered for having Pier Paolo Pasolini as film critic.[2] [3] In the 1960s he became editor of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.[2]
Bolzoni entered the cinema industry in 1948, collaborating at the screenplay of the adventure film I contrabbandieri del mare, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero;[4] later he was a prolific screenwriter, arousing some fame with several successful Spaghetti Westerns and poliziotteschi.[4] He was also an occasional director of films and documentaries and an essayist.[4]