Ugo Gregoretti
Italian film, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host

Ugo Gregoretti

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Italian film, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host
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Male
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Italy
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Film directorActorScreenwriterWriterJournalist
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Film, TV, Stage & RadioJournalismLiterature
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28 September 1930(Rome)
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Ugo Gregoretti (born 28 September 1930) is an Italian film, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host. He has directed 20 films since 1956.
Born in Rome, Gregoretti entered RAI in 1953, working as a documentarist and a director. In 1960 he won the Premio Italia Award for the television documentary La Sicilia del Gattopardo. In 1962 he made his film debut with the comedy-drama I nuovi angeli. Since 1978 he started his activity on stage as director of prose and opera rapresentations. His activity as director is mainly characterized by a sensitivity to the political and social issues combined to a peculiar use of irony and satire. He was president of the Turin Permanent Theatre from 1980 to 1989 and in 1995 he was nominated president of the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. In 2010 he was awarded with a special Lifetime Nastro d'Argento for his career.

Selected filmography

  • Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
  • Omicron (1963)
  • Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
  • Beautiful Families (1964)
  • La terrazza (1980)
  • It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)
  • Maggio musicale (it) (1990)