Aldo Lado

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1934-12-05

Deathday 2023-11-25 (88 years old)

Place of Birth Fiume, Istria, Italy [now Rijeka, Croatia]

Also Known As George B. Lewis

Aldo Lado

Biography

Aldo Lado was born in Fiume, Italy (today Rijeka, Croatia) on 5 December 1934. Lado came up through the film industry as an assistant director, notably to Bernardo Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970). After writing the story for the 1971 giallo The Designated Victim, he made his directorial debut later that year with Short Night of Glass Dolls. Lado took the job after two previous directors, Maurizio Lucidi and Antonio Margheriti, fell through. The film was a success, and he followed it with another giallo, Who Saw Her Die?. Lado's subsequent films were in a variety of genres, including drama (Woman Buried Alive, The Cousin), romance (La cosa buffa), and horror (Last Stop on the Night Train). In 1979, he directed the Star Wars cash-in The Humanoid, for which he was credited under the George Lucas-esque pseudonym "George B. Lewis". In 1981, he directed the Alberto Moravia adaptation La disubbidienza. In 2013, after a 20-year hiatus, he directed the film Il Notturno di Chopin. Lado published his first short story in 2016, in the anthology Nuovi delitti di lago. In 2017 he published I film che non vedrete mai ('The films you will never see'), a compilation based on Lado's own unproduced screenplays. Lado died at his home in Rome on the morning of 25 November 2023, at the age of 88.

Known For

Director

2012
1994
Power and Lovers

as Director

1993
Dark Friday

as Director

1992
Circle of Fear

as Director

1990
Ritual of Love

as Director

1987
Sahara Heat

as Director

1986
1981
Disobedience

as Director

1980
1979
The Humanoid

as Director

1978
Il prigioniero

as Director

1976
Born Winner

as Director

1974
Late Night Trains

as Director

1974
The Cousin

as Director

1973
Woman Buried Alive

as Director

1972
La cosa buffa

as Director

1972
Who Saw Her Die?

as Director

1971
Million Dollar Eel

as First Assistant Director

1971
The Designated Victim

as Assistant Director

1970
The Conformist

as First Assistant Director

1967
Colt in the Hand of the Devil

as Assistant Director

Writer

2012
1994
1993
Dark Friday

as Writer

1992
Circle of Fear

as Screenplay

1990
Ritual of Love

as Screenplay

1987
Sahara Heat

as Writer

1981
Disobedience

as Screenplay

1980
1980
Day of the Cobra

as Screenplay

1980
1979
The Humanoid

as Writer

1976
Born Winner

as Screenplay

1974
1973
Woman Buried Alive

as Screenplay

1972
Blessed Are the Rich

as Screenplay

1972
La cosa buffa

as Screenplay

1972
1971
1971
1968
Cry of Death

as Story

1968
Cry of Death

as Screenplay

Producer

2012
1997
Marquise

as Line Producer

1994
Farinelli

as Executive Producer

Actor

1992
Circle of Fear

as Bearded Cop Talking to Photo Anyalist (uncredited)

1982
Mora

as Père d'Aline

Editor

2012

Creator