Nino Oliviero (13 February 1918 – 29 February 1980) was an Italian composer.
Born in
Naples
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, Oliviero began his career as composer after the
Second World War
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, composing a series of successful
Neapolitan melodies such as "'Nu quarto 'e luna" and "'O ciucciariello".
From Sixties he worked as musical editor of various newspapers and signed the soundtracks of a number of films, including ''
Mondo Cane
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'' (1962), of which the theme song, "
More
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* ''More!'' (album), by Booka S ...
", co-written with
Riziero "Riz" Ortolani, was nominated for the
Academy Award
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for
Best Original Song
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
36th Academy Awards and became an international hit.
[ He also scored the 1976 ]Vincente Minnelli
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musical '' A Matter of Time'', which starred Liza Minnelli
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and Ingrid Bergman
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. Oliviero died in Rome
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, at 62, after a long illness.[
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Selected filmography
* ''Passionate Song
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Plot
Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both pare ...
'' (1953)
* '' The Daughter of the Regiment'' (1953)
* ''Men and Noblemen
''Men and Noblemen'' ( it, Uomini e nobiluomini) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Vittorio De Sica.
Plot
Cast
* Vittorio De Sica as Marquis Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
* Antonio Cifariello ...
'' (1959)
* '' Run for Your Wife'' (1965)
* '' Savage Gringo'' (1966)
* '' A Matter of Time'' (1976)
References
External links
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Italian film score composers
Italian male film score composers
Musicians from Naples
1918 births
1980 deaths
20th-century Italian composers
20th-century Italian male musicians
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