Marino Girolami
Biography
Marino Girolami (1 February 1914 – 20 February 1994) was an Italian film director and actor.
Marino Giorlami was born on 1 February 1914 in Rome, Italy. Formally a professional boxer, Girolami ended his boxing career when he was 20. Following this, he got a degree as a physical therapist and opened a gym which specialized in therapeutic massages. Girolami entered into Italy Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Among the people Girolami met was Anna Magnani who took her son Luca to meet him which led to close relationship between them. Girolami gave her the script he had been working on of Campo de'fiori which was passed on to Aldo Fabrizi. The story was re-written by Girolami and Federico Fellini and directed by Mario Bonnard, which led to Girolami working in film. He debuted as an actor in 1940, and became an assistant director for Mario Soldati, Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz. In 1949 he debuted as a director with La strada buia, a variation on the film Fugitive Lady. He pursued his career as film director with several musical comedies and melodramas.
Film historian and critic Roberto Curti described Girolami as one of Italy's most prolific genre directors, directing 78 films in three decades. Girolami worked in several genres and trends such as the Western with Between God, the Devil and a Winchester, the crime film (Violent Rome) and horror with Zombie Holocaust. Girolami also made hardcore pornography such as Sesso profondo.
Acting (2 movies)
Directing (76 movies)
College Girl on Vacation
1980
Doctor Butcher M.D.
1980
Kakkientruppen
1977
Il romanzo di un giovane povero
1958
Flying Sex
1980
4 Crazy Draftees at the Army
1974
La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo
1961
Le magnifiche 7
1961
I Sing for You
1954
Lasciateci in pace
1953
Le motorizzate
1963
Rome, the Other Face of Violence
1976
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
1968
Violent Rome
1975
Reverend's Colt
1970
Quanto sei bella Roma
1959
Ferragosto in Bikini
1960
Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
1970
A Special Cop in Action
1976
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
1968
Giggi il bullo
1982
Desirable Teacher 2
1982
Desirable Teacher
1981
Bullet in the Flesh
1964
Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice?
1979
Lover Boy
1975
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
1967
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
1963
Le tardone
1964
Badmen of the West
1964
These Mad, Mad Women
1964
Venus in the Sun
1964
Veneri in collegio
1965
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
Friends More Than Before
1976
Scandali al mare
1961
Siamo tutti pomicioni
1963
La canzone del destino
1957
Twist, lolite e vitelloni
1962
Caccia al marito
1960
There Is a Path in the Sky
1957
Un figlio d'oggi
1961
Lo sgarbo
1975
African Story
1971
Il medico delle donne
1962
Sexy Sinners
1972
Era lei che lo voleva!
1953
The Two Magnificent Fresconi
1968
Cantando sotto le stelle
1956
Nude Odeon
1978
My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
1960
7 Golden Monks
1966
Quando gli angeli piangono
1958
La ragazza di Via Veneto
1955
Gli italiani e le donne
1962
Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice
1953
Il cantante misterioso
1954
Un canto nel deserto
1959
Ore 10: lezione di canto
1955
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
1981
What the Chambermaid Saw
1973
Quel tesoro di papà
1959
The Fury of Achilles
1962
Walter e i Suoi Cugini
1961
Serenate per 16 bionde
1957
Noi due soli
1952
Spiaggia libera
1966
Raptus
1969
City of Violence
1951
Sette canzoni per sette sorelle
1957
Vivendo, cantando, che male ti fò?
1957
L'assassino si chiama Pompeo
1962
Granada, addio!
1967
Milano miliardaria
1951
Fugitive Lady
1950
Buongiorno primo amore!
1957