Ernesto Gastaldi Explained

Ernesto Gastaldi
Birth Date:10 September 1934
Birth Place:Graglia, Italy
Pseudonym:Julian Berry
Occupation:Screenwriter, film director

Ernesto Gastaldi (born 10 September 1934) is an Italian screenwriter. Film historian and critic Tim Lucas described Gastaldi as the first Italian screenwriter to specialize in horror and thriller films. Gastaldi worked within several popular genres including pepla, Western and spy films.

Biography

Ernesto Gastaldi was born on 10 September 1934 in Graglia in the province of Province of Biella, Piedmont. Gastaldi left his job as a clerk at the Sella bank in Biella to move to Rome where he was admitted into Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. After graduating, Gastaldi had trouble finding work. In 1957, Gastaldi wrote his first science fiction novel which the publishers requested an English-language name for the cover. Gastaldi was sharing an apartment at the time with an Anglo-Italian man named Julian Birri, whom he adapted his name to for his alias, Julian Berry. Gastaldi would write more crime and science fiction novels during this period such as Sangue intasca (1957) as James Duffy, Brivido sulla schiena (1957) as Freddy Foster and Tempo zero (1960) as Berry.

Gastaldi's debut as a screenwriter and assistant director was with the film The Vampire and the Ballerina by Renato Polselli. Gastaldi reflected on writing the film by stating that his working hours were from 8 in the morning until midnight, stating that "if someone had told me I was making a Gothic film I would have laughed." Other works in gothic horror included Gastaldi writing for Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock and The Whip and the Body. Following his gothic works, was his work in giallo film, where Gastaldi directed films such as Libido, which was released in 1965.

Selected filmography

Title YearCredited as Notes
ScreenwriterScreen story writerOther
1960
Guns of the Black Witch1961
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
Queen of the Seas
Venus Against the Son of Hercules1962
Alone Against Rome
Avenger of the Seven Seas
Charge of the Black Lancers
Medusa Against the Son of Hercules1963
Assistant director
Hercules and the Masked Rider
Terror in the Crypt1964
Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus1965
Uncredited
LibidoDirector[1]
1966
Killer's Carnival[2]
Arizona Colt[3] [4]
Blood at Sundown[5] [6]
Day of Anger1967[7]
Flashman
1968[8] [9]
1969[10] [11]
So Sweet... So Perverse[12] [13]
Arizona Colt Returns1970[14]
Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming[15] [16]
All the Colors of the Dark1972
[17] [18]
[19]
Torso1973[20] [21]
My Name Is Nobody
Almost Human1974
Gambling City1975
Kidnap Syndicate
Savage ThreeTreatment
[22] [23]
1977
Sahara Cross
Concorde Affaire '791979[24] [25]
1982
Notturno con gridaDirector
Once Upon a Time in America1984Uncredited
Shatterer1987

Footnotes

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Libido (1965). Archivio del cinema italiano. 31 December 2019. it.
  2. Web site: Gern hab' ich die Frauen gekillt. Filmportal.de. 7 June 2018. de.
  3. Web site: Arizona Colt (1966). Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 22 September 2018.
  4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20131005072049/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/arizona-colt-v83934. Arizona Colt. Erickson. Hal. Hal Erickson (author). 22 September 2018. 5 October 2013.
  5. Web site: Sartana. Filmportal.de. 7 June 2018. de.
  6. Web site: 1000 dollari sul nero (1966). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. it. 7 June 2018.
  7. Web site: Der Tod ritt dienstags. Filmportal.de. 16 February 2015. de.
  8. Web site: Il dolce corpo di Deborah (1968). Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 26 October 2018. it.
  9. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20140402200648/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=19974. The Sweet Body of Deborah. 26 October 2018. American Film Institute. 2 April 2014.
  10. Web site: La battaglia di El Alamein (1968). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 9 May 2020. it.
  11. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20131207020442/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-battle-of-el-alamein-v4319. The Battle of El Alamein on AllMovie. AllMovie. 9 May 2020. Erickson. Hal. Hal Erickson (author). 7 December 2013.
  12. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20120804020619/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/kiss-me-kill-me-v27527/. Kiss Me, Kill Me. AllMovie. 3 August 2017. 4 August 2012. Firsching. Robert.
  13. Web site: Cosi dolce, cosi perversa (1969) Umberto Lenzi. Bifi.fr. fr. 31 July 2017.
  14. Web site: Arizona si scatenò... e li fece fuori tutti. Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 4 April 2018. it.
  15. The Complete Sartana. 2018. If You Meet Sartana.... Curti. Roberto. 30. Booklet. Arrow Video. FCD1762 / AV151.
  16. The Complete Sartana. 2018. Cast & Crew. 12. Booklet. Arrow Video. FCD1762 / AV151.
  17. Web site: La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte . Firsching . Robert . AllMovie . 17 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120624190810/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/la-morte-accarezza-a-mezzanotte-v160276 . 24 June 2012.
  18. Web site: La morte accarezza a mezzanotte (1972) . Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. it. 7 June 2018.
  19. Web site: Drei Vaterunser für vier Halunken. Filmportal.de. 7 June 2018. de.
  20. Web site: Torso. https://web.archive.org/web/20130522012617/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/torso-v50491. 22 May 2013. 14 August 2017. Binion. Cavett.
  21. Web site: I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (1972). Archivio del cinema italiano. it.
  22. Web site: Nobody ist der Größte. Filmportal.de. 23 September 2018. de.
  23. Web site: Un genio, due compari, un pollo (1975). Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 23 September 2018. it.
  24. Web site: Concorde Affaire '79 (1979). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 23 September 2018. it.
  25. Web site: Concorde Affaire '79. Turner Classic Movies. 23 September 2018.

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