
Pino Mercanti
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-02-16
Day of Death
1986-09-03 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Palermo, Italy
Pino Mercanti
Biography
Giuseppe Mercanti, best known as Pino Mercanti (16 February 1911 – 3 September 1986), was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Mercanti was a pioneer of the Sicilian cinema as the leading filmmaker and the artistic director of the production company O.F.S. (a.k.a. Organizzazione Filmistica Siciliana), founded by the brothers Francesco and Girolamo Gorgone with the purpose of promoting the production of films on Sicilian soil. Following the bankruptcy of the company, Mercanti moved to Rome, where he directed a number of melodramas, adventure films, Spaghetti Westerns and other genre films, often international co-productions. He was sometimes credited as Joseph Trader.
Known For
Crew
(1970)
The Underground
Director, Story, Screenplay
(1966)
(1964)
Gentlemen of the Night
Director
(1964)
Three Dollars of Lead
Dialogue, Director
(1963)
The Black Duke
Director
(1961)
The Last of the Vikings
Second Unit Director
(1960)
Knight of 100 Faces
Director
(1958)
Ricordati di Napoli
Director
(1955)
Ambush on the Sea
Director
(1954)
I cinque dell'Adamello
Director, Writer
(1954)
Lacrime d'amore
Director
(1952)
Serenata amara
Director
(1950)
The Outlaws
Screenplay
(1950)
Il principe ribelle
Director
(1948)
I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
Screenplay, Director
(1946)
Malacarne
Director, Writer
(1945)
All'ombra della gloria
Director