Piero Regnoli

Piero Regnoli (1921–2001) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. Born in 1921, Regnoli worked in the film industry between 1953 and 1991 where he wrote over 110 screenplays and directed 11 films.[2][3] Regnoli's work ranged from sword-and-sandal films, westerns, horror and sexy comedies.[2] His final film where he was officially credited as a director was La principessa sul pisello in 1976.[4] Regnoli did uncredited direction on the 1986 melodrama Giuro che ti amo starring Nino D'Angelo.[4]

Piero Regnoli
Born	1921
Died	2001 (aged 79–80) Rome, Italy
Other names	Dean Craig[1]
Occupation	Screenwriter, film director
Years active	1953–1994

Regnoli was also employed as the film critic for the Vatican's daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.[2] Regnoli died in 2001.[2]

Style

Piero Regnoli's work as writer often dealt with themes of eroticism, such as in Brunello Rondi's Tecnica di un amore (1973), Roberto Bianchi Montero's Caligula's Hot Nights (1977) and Mario Bianchi's Satan's Baby Doll (1983).[3][5] When Regnoli worked as a director, his work still contained these themes but was often toned down.[3]

Selected filmography

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

Title	Year	Credited as				Notes	Ref(s)
		Director	Screenplay	Story	Other
It's Never Too Late	1953		Yes				[6]
I Vampiri	1957		Yes	Yes	Yes	Acting role as Mr. Bourgeois; Assistant director	[7]
Anche l'inferno trema	N/A	Yes					[8]
The Playgirls and the Vampire	1960	Yes	Yes	Yes			[9]
I'll See You in Hell	N/A	Yes	Yes				[10]
Caribbean Hawk	1962	Yes	Yes				[11]
The Defeat of the Barbarians		Yes					[12]
Maciste in King Solomon's Mines	1964	Yes	Yes				[13][14]
The Third Eye	1966		Yes				[1]
The Hills Run Red			Yes	Yes			[15][16]
Navajo Joe			Yes				[17]
The Seven Red Berets	1969		Yes				[18]
Gangster's Law	1969		Yes				[19]
Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman	1971		Yes				[20]
And They Smelled the Strange, Exciting, Dangerous Scent of Dollars	1973		Yes				[21]
White Fang		Yes				[22][23]
Cry of a Prostitute	1974		Yes				[24]
A Black Ribbon for Deborah	1974		Yes	Yes			[25]
Season for Assassins	1975		Yes	Yes			[26]
La principessa sul pisello	1976	Yes	Yes	Yes			[27][4]
Honor and "Guapparia"	1977		Yes				[28]
Malabimba – The Malicious Whore	1978		Yes				[29]
Naples ... the Camorra Defies, the City Replies	1979		Yes				[30]
The New Godfathers	1979		Yes				[31][32]
Your Life for My Son	1980		Yes				[33]
Nightmare City	N/A		Yes				[34]
Patrick Still Lives	N/A		Yes				[35]
Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror	N/A		Yes				[36][37]
The Sword of the Barbarians	1982		Yes				[38]
Gunan, King of the Barbarians			Yes	Yes			[39]
Satan's Baby Doll	1983		Yes				[5]
The Bronx Executioner	N/A		Yes				[40]
Demonia	N/A		Yes				[41]
Voices from Beyond	N/A		Yes				[22]
The Smile of the Fox	N/A		Yes				[42]
Hot Laps	N/A		Yes				[43]
La ragazza di cortina	N/A		Yes				[44]

References

Footnotes

1. Curti 2015, p. 168.
2. Curti 2015, p. 57.
3. Curti 2016, p. 150.
4. Curti 2016, p. 151.
5. Curti 2019, p. 111.
6. Glavin 2003, p. 208.
7. Curti 2015, p. 21.
8. "Anche l'inferno trema (1958)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
9. Curti 2015, p. 56.
10. Paul 2004, p. 313.
11. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 33.
12. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 46.
13. Paul 2004, p. 312.
14. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 146.
15. Hughes 2004, p. 70. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHughes2004 (help)
16. Hughes 2004, p. 78. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHughes2004 (help)
17. Hilger 2015, p. 234.
18. "Sette baschi rossi (1969)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
19. Curti 2013, p. 28.
20. "Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman". The New York Times.
21. Pitts 2012, p. 91.
22. Paul 2004, p. 141.
23. Pitts 2012, p. 395.
24. Curti 2013, p. 109.
25. Curti 2017, p. 119.
26. Curti 2013, p. 148.
27. Curti 2016, p. 149.
28. Curti 2013, p. 227.
29. Curti 2017, p. 208.
30. Curti 2013, p. 265.
31. Curti 2013, p. 266.
32. Curti 2013, p. 267.
33. Curti 2013, p. 279.
34. Paul 2004, p. 154.
35. Paul 2004, p. 292.
36. Paul 2004, p. 243.
37. Kay 2008, p. 118.
38. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 198.
39. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 201.
40. "Il giustiziere del bronx (1989)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
41. Paul 2004, p. 136.
42. Paul 2004, p. 298.
43. Paul 2004, p. 242.
44. "La ragazza di cortina (1994)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 5 August 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2015.

Sources

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External links

• Piero Regnoli at IMDb