Catrano Catrani
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
-
Birthday
1910-10-31
Day of Death
1974-12-19 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Catrano Catrani
Biography
Catrano M. Catrani (October 31, 1910 — December 19, 1974) was an Italian-Argentine film director and producer.
Catrani was born in 1910 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy. He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He emigrated to Argentina in 1937 and settled in Buenos Aires, where he joined San Miguel Studios. He directed many short advertising films and documentaries, and in 1942 he completed his first major work, the comedy En el último piso with Zully Moreno as the lead.
His first big success was Alto Paraná, a costumbrista comedy screenwritten by novelist Velmiro Ayala Gauna, with Ubaldo Martínez in the lead role as Frutos Gómez, a sardonic and astute policeman. In 1963, he directed La fusilación or El último montonero, co-written with Félix Luna and with music by Ariel Ramírez, about the bloody death of caudillo Ángel Vicente Peñaloza, which won the prize for best director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
He died on December 19, 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Known For
Acting
(1960)
Crew
(1972)
He nacido en la ribera
Director, Producer
(1972)
¿De quiénes son las mujeres?
Director
(1967)
Tacuara y Chamorro, pichones de hombres
Director, Screenplay
(1965)
Santiago querido!
Director
(1963)
El último montonero
Director, Writer
(1960)
Álamos talados
Producer, Director
(1960)
The Furies
Producer
(1958)
Upper Paraná
Director, Writer, Producer
(1955)
South of the 42nd parallel
Producer, Director
(1955)
Codicia
Adaptation, Director, Writer
(1951)
Mujeres en sombra
Director
(1951)
La comedia inmortal
Director
(1950)
Lejos del cielo
Director
(1948)
Los secretos del buzón
Director
(1947)
Los hijos del otro
Director
(1945)
Llegó la niña Ramona
Director
(1942)
En el último piso
Director