
Person
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Feb 27, 1921
- Died
- Dec 15, 2005
- From
- Naples, Campania, Italy
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (26 February 1921 – 15 December 2005) was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director and author. He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spent his professional life there. Patroni Griffi is considered one of the most prominent contributors to Italian theater and film in post-war Italy. Roberto Rossellini made a film from his play Anima nera. His first listed film writing credit was on the 1952 musical Canzoni di mezzo secolo. Patroni Griffi would later direct Charlotte Rampling, Elizabeth Taylor, Marcello Mastroianni, Laura Antonelli, Florinda Bolkan, Terence Stamp, Fabio Testi. Patroni Griffi was also involved with numerous television productions of lyric opera, including Verdi's La Traviata. His many theatrical productions include works by Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, Jean Cocteau and Tennessee Williams. As a writer, he published a first collection of stories in 1955, Ragazzo di Trastevere. Later, he contributed significantly to the body of Italian gay literature with Scende giù per Toledo and La morte della bellezza, both set in Naples.
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Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
La tenda in piazza

The Swindlers

Identikit

The Divine Nymph

Woman

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Love Circle

The Trap

More Than a Miracle

The Sea

The Witches

I cuori infranti

The Eternal Chain

Dark Soul

Girl with a Suitcase

La traviata in Paris

Tosca