Apparently director Osvaldo Civirani died a few days ago. I can’t find any more information about this at the moment, but will update when I hear anything more.<\/p>\n
Civirani was afamous photographer who took a lot of shots in Cinecitta during the golden years, before moving on to become a film director in his own right. He worked in a variety of genres, but his output was variable: The Becket Affair<\/strong>, for instance, is a really quite good spy film, but The Devil With Seven Faces <\/strong>stands as one of the poorest of giallos.<\/p>\n Here a translated obit:<\/p>\n Roma, 28 feb. – Osvaldo Civirani, the director of Spaghetti Westerns, peplums and comedies, died in Rome at the age of 91. As well as directing about 30 films, Civirani was also a screenwriter and director of photography. He began his career as a director of photogrpahy in 1943, working alongside Luchino Visconti at the time he was shooting Osessione<\/strong>. Later, he was assistant to Alessandro Blasetti in Fabiola <\/strong>(49), Federico Fellini (Luci del varieta<\/strong> (50) and Lo sceicco bianco<\/strong> (52)), Roberto Rossellini (Francesco, giullare di Dio<\/strong>, 50) and Carlo Lizzani (Cronache di poveri amanti<\/strong>, 54)<\/p>\n He made his debut as a directot in 1964 shooting in Cinecitta, at the time known as Hollywood on the Tevere, with the peplums Kindar l’invulnerabile<\/strong> and Ercole contro i figli del sole<\/strong>, both with the actor Mark Forest. In 1965, he directed Tentazioni proibite<\/strong>, which featured Brigitte Bardot. In 1967, he made Ric e Gian alla conquista del west<\/strong>, Il figlio di Django<\/strong>, Lucrezia Borgia l’amante del diavolo<\/strong>, Quel giorno Dio non c’era<\/strong> and Le Mans scorciatoia per l’inferno<\/strong> (which featured a young Edwige Fenech).<\/p>\n Between 71 and 72 he directed five comedy films with Franco & Ciccio, before concluding his career with the films Il pavone nero<\/strong> (74) and La ragazza dalla pelle di corallo<\/strong> (76)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently director Osvaldo Civirani died a few days ago. I can’t find any more information about this at the moment, but will update when…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}