Catrano Catrani

Personal Info

Known For Director

Birthday 1910-10-31

Deathday 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

Director

1972
1965
Santiago querido!

as Director

1963
1960
Álamos talados

as Director

1958
Upper Paraná

as Director

1955
Codicia

as Director

1951
Mujeres en sombra

as Director

1951
1950
Lejos del cielo

as Director

1948
1947
Los hijos del otro

as Director

1945
1942
En el último piso

as Director

Producer

1972
1960
Álamos talados

as Producer

1960
The Furies

as Producer

1958
Upper Paraná

as Producer

Writer

1963
1958
Upper Paraná

as Writer

1955
Codicia

as Adaptation

1955
Codicia

as Writer

Actor