Piero Piccioni

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1921-12-06

Deathday 2004-07-23 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Torino, Italy

Also Known As Piero Morgan

Piero Piccioni

Biography

Piero Piccioni (December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian film score composer and lawyer. A pianist, organist, conductor, composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. He was influenced in the use of jazz by 20th century classical composers and American films. Piero Piccioni came into contact with the movie world in Rome during the fifties, when he was a practicing lawyer securing movie rights for Italian producers such as Titanus and De Laurentiis. Many directors sought Piero Piccioni to score the soundtracks for their films: Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Lina Wertmuller, Tinto Brass, Dino Risi, and others. His film scores include Il bell'Antonio, Contempt, The 10th Victim, More Than a Miracle, The Deserter, The Light at the Edge of the World, Puppet on a Chain, Lucky Luciano, Camille 2000, The Nun and the Devil, Swept Away, Christ Stopped at Eboli, Fighting Back, and many Alberto Sordi movies. He is credited with over 300 soundtracks and compositions for radio, television, ballets and orchestra. Piccioni won many prestigious prizes including the David di Donatello Award for the movie Swept Away (1975), Nastro d’argento Award for the movie Salvatore Giuliano by Francesco Rosi (1963), Prix International Lumière 1991, Anna Magnani Award 1975 and Vittorio De Sica Award 1979.

Known For

Sound

1998
Incontri proibiti

as Original Music Composer

1994
Nestore, l'ultima corsa

as Original Music Composer

1992
Neapolitan Diary

as Original Music Composer

1992
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto

as Original Music Composer

1990
The Miser

as Original Music Composer

1990
Comprarsi la vita

as Original Music Composer

1989
12 Directors for 12 Cities

as Original Music Composer

1987
A Child Called Jesus

as Original Music Composer

1987
A Taxi Driver in New York

as Original Music Composer

1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

as Original Music Composer

1985
I Am an ESP

as Original Music Composer

1985
Quo Vadis?

as Original Music Composer

1984
All for the Moral Majority!

as Original Music Composer

1983
Il tassinaro

as Original Music Composer

1982
I Know That You Know That I Know

as Original Music Composer

1982
Journey with Papa

as Original Music Composer

1982
Fighting Back

as Original Music Composer

1982
1981
Three Brothers

as Original Music Composer

1981
Pierino medico della SAUB

as Original Music Composer

1981
1980
Catherine and I

as Original Music Composer

1980
The Precarious Bank Teller

as Original Music Composer

1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli

as Orchestrator

1979
1979
Hypochondriac

as Original Music Composer

1979
Riavanti… Marsch!

as Original Music Composer

1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli

as Original Music Composer

1979
The Swap

as Music

1978
The Witness

as Original Music Composer

1978
Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania

as Original Music Composer

1978
Where Are You Going on Holiday?

as Original Music Composer

1977
Crazy Desires of a Murderer

as Original Music Composer

1977
This Is the Night

as Original Music Composer

1976
Heart of a Dog

as Original Music Composer

1976
Chi dice donna, dice donna

as Original Music Composer

1976
A Common Sense of Modesty

as Original Music Composer

1976
Strange Occasion

as Original Music Composer

1976
Illustrious Corpses

as Original Music Composer

1975
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio

as Original Music Composer

1975
Fratello mare

as Original Music Composer

1974
While There's War There's Hope

as Original Music Composer

1974
All Screwed Up

as Original Music Composer

1974
1974
1974
Appassionata

as Original Music Composer

1974
Swept Away

as Original Music Composer

1974
Kidnap

as Original Music Composer

1974
Anna Karenina

as Music

1973
Six Bounty Killers for a Massacre

as Original Music Composer

1973
1973
Story of a Cloistered Nun

as Original Music Composer

1973
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria

as Original Music Composer

1973
Stardust

as Original Music Composer

1973
Colt in the Hand of the Devil

as Original Music Composer

1973
The Executioner of God

as Original Music Composer

1973
Lucky Luciano

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Monk

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Seduction of Mimi

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Mattei Affair

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Scopone Game

as Original Music Composer

1972
Les Évasions célèbres

as Original Music Composer

1971
Marta

as Original Music Composer

1971
Devil's Ransom

as Original Music Composer

1971
The Light at the Edge of the World

as Original Music Composer

1971
1971
A Girl in Australia

as Original Music Composer

1971
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Toscana

as Original Music Composer

1971
First Surrender

as Original Music Composer

1971
The Masked Thief

as Original Music Composer

1971
In the Eye of the Hurricane

as Original Music Composer

1970
1970
Red Hot Shot

as Original Music Composer

1970
1970
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sicilia

as Original Music Composer

1970
1970
Let's Have a Riot

as Original Music Composer

1970
Puppet on a Chain

as Original Music Composer

1970
Many Wars Ago

as Original Music Composer

1970
The Couples

as Original Music Composer

1970
The Deserter

as Original Music Composer

1969
Playgirl 70

as Music

1969
The Slave

as Music

1969
The Others

as Music

1969
Naked England

as Music

1969
Help Me, My Love

as Original Music Composer

1969
Youth March

as Original Music Composer

1969
Medicine Italian Style

as Original Music Composer

1969
Camille 2000

as Original Music Composer

1969
Temptation

as Original Music Composer

1969
The Ten Wonders of Love

as Original Music Composer

1969
Love Me, Love My Wife

as Original Music Composer

1969
Oh, Grandmother's Dead

as Original Music Composer

1969
The Brothers Karamazov

as Original Music Composer

1968
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

as Original Music Composer

1968
La moglie giapponese

as Original Music Composer

1968
Bora Bora

as Music

1968
Be Sick… It's Free

as Original Music Composer

1968
The Young Tigers

as Original Music Composer

1968
Gatling Gun

as Original Music Composer

1968
I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!

as Original Music Composer

1968
Kenner

as Original Music Composer

1968
Caprice Italian Style

as Original Music Composer

1967
Every Man Is My Enemy

as Original Music Composer

1967
More Than a Miracle

as Original Music Composer

1967
The Witches

as Original Music Composer

1967
The Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1967
The Witches

as Music Director

1967
The Witches

as Musician

1967
I Married You for Fun

as Original Music Composer

1967
An Italian in America

as Original Music Composer

1967
Matchless

as Original Music Composer

1966
Smoke Over London

as Original Music Composer

1966
Pardon, Are You for or Against?

as Original Music Composer

1966
M.M.M. 83

as Music

1966
Our Husbands

as Original Music Composer

1965
Il provino

as Music

1965
The 10th Victim

as Conductor

1965
The 10th Victim

as Original Music Composer

1965
I Knew Her Well

as Original Music Composer

1965
1965
From the Orient with Fury

as Original Music Composer

1965
The Moment of Truth

as Original Music Composer

1965
Once Upon a Tractor

as Original Music Composer

1965
Rope Around the Neck

as Original Music Composer

1964
Minnesota Clay

as Original Music Composer

1964
Three Nights of Love

as Original Music Composer

1964
It's a Hard Life

as Original Music Composer

1964
The Escape

as Original Music Composer

1964
The Flying Saucer

as Original Music Composer

1964
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing

as Original Music Composer

1964
Three for a Robbery

as Original Music Composer

1964
The Demon

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Boom

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Terrorist

as Original Music Composer

1963
A Sentimental Attempt

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Attic

as Music

1963
To Bed or Not to Bed

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Shortest Day

as Original Music Composer

1963
Who Works Is Lost

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Girl from Parma

as Original Music Composer

1963
Hands over the City

as Original Music Composer

1962
1962
Mafioso

as Conductor

1962
Mafioso

as Original Music Composer

1962
Careless

as Original Music Composer

1962
1962
Roaring Years

as Conductor

1962
La Commare Secca

as Original Music Composer

1962
Salvatore Giuliano

as Original Music Composer

1962
The Slave

as Original Music Composer

1962
Eruption

as Original Music Composer

1962
Dark Soul

as Original Music Composer

1962
Violent Life

as Original Music Composer

1962
Roaring Years

as Original Music Composer

1962
Totò diabolicus

as Original Music Composer

1962
Lo smemorato di Collegno

as Original Music Composer

1961
Unexpected

as Music

1961
The Assassin

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Lovemakers

as Original Music Composer

1961
Gioventù di notte

as Original Music Composer

1961
Destination Fury

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Two Marshals

as Original Music Composer

1961
Duel of the Titans

as Original Music Composer

1961
World by Night No. 2

as Original Music Composer

1960
Adua and Her Friends

as Original Music Composer

1960
The Hunchback

as Original Music Composer

1960
Sweet Deceptions

as Original Music Composer

1960
The Employee

as Original Music Composer

1960
Handsome Antonio

as Original Music Composer

1960
World by Night

as Original Music Composer

1960
From a Roman Balcony

as Original Music Composer

1960
Le svedesi

as Original Music Composer

1960
Run with the Devil

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Swindlers

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Big Night

as Original Music Composer

1959
Adventure in Capri

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Overtaxed

as Original Music Composer

1959
I ragazzi dei Parioli

as Original Music Composer

1959
Vacations in Majorca

as Original Music Composer

1958
Tempest

as Original Music Composer

1958
March's Child

as Original Music Composer

1958
Angel in a Taxi

as Original Music Composer

1958
Love on the Riviera

as Original Music Composer

1957
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl

as Original Music Composer

1957
Guendalina

as Original Music Composer

1957
La donna che venne dal mare

as Original Music Composer

1955
Yalis, la vergine del Roncador

as Original Music Composer

1954
The Boarder

as Original Music Composer

1953
The World Condemns Them

as Original Music Composer

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