Aldo Lado

Directing·Dec 5, 1934·Fiume, Istria, Italy [now Rijeka, Croatia]

Rate

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?. 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.

Film	Credit
Il notturno di Chopin2012 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Hollywood Flies2005 · Writer	Writer
DDeath in Venice: Interview with Aldo Lado2002 · Himself	Himself
Power and Lovers1994 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Dark Friday1993 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Circle of Fear1992 · Bearded Cop Talking to Photo Anyalist (uncredited), Director, Screenplay	Bearded Cop Talking to Photo Anyalist (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
Ritual of Love1990 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Sahara Heat1987 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
LLa città di Miriam1983 · Director	Director
Mora1982 · Père d'Aline	Père d'Aline
Disobedience1981 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Day of the Cobra1980 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Crime in Via Teulada1980 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Humanoid1979 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Il prigioniero1978 · Director	Director
Born Winner1976 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Late Night Trains1975 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Cousin1974 · Director	Director
Woman Buried Alive1973 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
La cosa buffa1972 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Blessed Are the Rich1972 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Who Saw Her Die?1972 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Short Night of Glass Dolls1971 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Million Dollar Eel1971 · Writer	Writer
Cry of Death1968 · Screenplay	Screenplay