
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-02-27
Day of Death
2005-12-15 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Naples, Campania, Italy
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2016)
Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
as Self (archive footage)
(1972)
La tenda in piazza
as Self (uncredited)
Crew
(2007)
La traviata in Paris
Director
(1998)
Femmina
Writer
(1986)
Tosca
Director
(1985)
The Trap
Director
(1975)
The Divine Nymph
Director, Screenplay
(1974)
Identikit
Screenplay, Director
(1971)
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Director, Writer
(1969)
Love Circle
Director, Theatre Play, Screenplay
(1967)
More Than a Miracle
Screenplay, Story
(1967)
The Witches
Story, Screenplay
(1963)
I cuori infranti
Screenplay, Story
(1962)
The Sea
Story, Screenplay, Director
(1962)
Dark Soul
Theatre Play
(1961)
Girl with a Suitcase
Story, Screenplay
(1959)
The Swindlers
Screenplay
(1953)
Cavalcade of Song
Writer
(1952)
The Eternal Chain
Story, Screenplay
(1952)
Half a Century of Song
Writer