Marino Girolami

Marino Girolami (1 February 1914 – 20 February 1994) was an Italian film director and actor.

Marino Girolami
Born	Marino Girolami 1 February 1914 Rome, Italy
Died	20 February 1994(1994-02-20) (aged 80) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Film director
Children	Ennio Girolami Enzo G. Castellari

Biography

Marino Giorlami was born on 1 February 1914 in Rome, Italy. Formally a professional boxer, Girolami ended his boxing career when he was 20. Following this, he got a degree as a physical therapist and opened a gym which specialized in therapeutic massages. Girolami entered into Italy Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Among the people Girolami met was Anna Magnani who took her son Luca to meet him which led to close relationship between them. Girolami gave her the script he had been working on of Campo de'fiori which was passed on to Aldo Fabrizi. The story was re-written by Girolami and Federico Fellini and directed by Mario Bonnard, which led to Girolami working in film. He debuted as an actor in 1940, and became an assistant director for Mario Soldati, Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz. In 1949 he debuted as a director with La strada buia, a variation on the film Fugitive Lady. He pursued his career as film director with several musical comedies and melodramas.

Film historian and critic Roberto Curti described Girolami as one of Italy's most prolific genre directors, directing 78 films in three decades. Girolami worked in several genres and trends such as the Western with Between God, the Devil and a Winchester, the crime film (Violent Rome) and horror with Zombie Holocaust. Girolami also made hardcore pornography such as Sesso profondo. He died on 20 February 1994 in Rome.

Personal life

Girolami was the older brother of director Romolo Girolami, who worked with Marino as an assistant director on some of his films such as Il Mio amico Jekyll and later directed under the name Romolo Guerrieri. Marino Girolami is also the father of actor Ennio Girolami and director Enzo G. Castellari.

Select filmography

Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.

Title	Year	Credited as				Notes	Ref(s)
		Director	Screenwriter	Producer	Other
Beatrice Cenci	—				Yes	Actor
L'ultimo combattimento	—				Yes	Actor
Villa da vendere	—				Yes	Actor, as brigadiere di polizia
Giarabub	—				Yes	Actor
Violette nei capelli	—				Yes	Actor
The Peddler and the Lady	1943				Yes	Screen story writer
Miss Italia	—				Yes	Film editor
Fugitive Lady	—	Yes
Love and Blood	1951	Yes
Era lui... sì! sì!	—	Yes
We Two Alone	—	Yes
Era lei che lo voleva	—	Yes
Lasciateci in pace	—	Yes
Riscatto	—	Yes			Yes	Screen story writer
Canto per te	—	Yes
Il cantante misterioso	—	Yes
Ore 10 lezione di canto	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
La ragazza di via Veneto	—	Yes			Yes	Screen story writer
Cantando sotto le stelle	—	Yes
Buongiorno primo amore!	—	Yes
La canzone del destino	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
C'è un sentiero nel cielo	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Serenate per 16 bionde	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
7 canzoni per 7 sorelle	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Vivendo, cantando... che male ti fo?	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Quando gli angeli piangono	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Il romanzo di un giovane povero	—	Yes	Yes
Un canto nel deserto	—	Yes
Quanto sei bella Roma	—	Yes	Yes
Quel tesoro di papà	—	Yes
Caccia al marito	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Ferragosto in bikini	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
My Friend, Dr. Jekyll	1960	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Screen story writer
Bellezze sulla spiaggia	—	Yes
Un figlio d'oggi	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Le magnifiche 7	—	Yes
La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Scandali al mare	—	Yes
Walter e i suoi cugini	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
L'assassino si chiama Pompeo	—	Yes
The Fury of Achilles	—	Yes
l medico delle donne	—	Yes
Twist, lolite e vitelloni	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella	—	Yes			Yes	Screen story writer
Le motorizzate	—	Yes
Siamo tutti pomicioni	—	Yes
I magnifici Brutos del West	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Bullet in the Flesh	1964	Yes
Queste pazze, pazze donne	—	Yes
Le tardone	—	Yes
Veneri al sole	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Veneri in collegio	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
I 7 monaci d'oro	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Spiaggia libera	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Due Rrringos nel Texas	—	Yes			Yes	Screen story writer
Granada, addio!	—	Yes
The Long, the Short, the Cat	—		Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Renegade Riders	1967				Yes	Screen story writer
One by One	1968		Yes
Between God, the Devil and a Winchester	1968	Yes	Yes
Franco, Ciccio e le vedove allegre	—	Yes			Yes	Screen story writer
I due magnifici fresconi	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer, film editor
Raptus	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Don Franco e Don Ciccio nell'anno della contestazione	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
African Story	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Los amantes del diablo	—		Yes
Decameron proibitissimo	—	Yes
Maria Rosa la guardona	—	Yes			Yes	Screen story writer
4 marmittoni alle grandi manovre	—	Yes
Rudeness	1975	Yes
Lover Boy	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
La moglie vergine	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Violent Rome	1975	Yes
Amici più di prima	—	Yes
Roma, l'altra faccia della violenza	1976	Yes
Special Cop in Action	1976	Yes
Kakkientruppen	1977	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Nudeodeon	—	Yes	Yes		Yes	Screen story writer
Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice?	—	Yes
Hunted City	1979				Yes	Screen story writer
Sesso profondo	—	Yes
Zombie Holocaust	1980	Yes
La liceale al mare con l'amica di papà	—	Yes
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo	—	Yes
Pierino contro tutti	—	Yes		Yes
Giggi il bullo	—	Yes		Yes
Pierino colpisce ancora	—	Yes		Yes

References

Bibliography

• Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.
• Curti, Roberto (2015). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476619897.
• Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.
• Ercolani, Eugenio (2019). Darkening the Italian Screen: Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1950s and 1960s. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476667386.
• Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.
• Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.
• Minuz, Andrea (2015). Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1782388203.

External links

• Marino Girolami at IMDb