Aldo Lado
Directing
- Born
- December 5, 1934 · Fiume, Istria, Italy [now Rijeka, Croatia]
- Died
- November 25, 2023 (age 88)
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?.
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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
Behind the camera28
- 2012Il notturno di Chopin Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
- 2005Hollywood Flies Story, Writer
- 1997Marquise Line Producer
- 1994Farinelli Executive Producer
- 1994Power and Lovers Director, Writer, Story
- 1993Dark Friday Director, Writer
- 1992Circle of Fear Director, Screenplay
- 1990Ritual of Love Director, Screenplay, Story
- 1987Sahara Heat Writer, Director
- 1983La città di Miriam
