Sergio Grieco

Sergio Grieco (13 January 1917 – 30 March 1982) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Sergio's father was the Italian Communist Ruggero Grieco.

Grieco first started in film in the Soviet Union in 1931, working as an assistant to Nikolai Ekk on the first Soviet sound film '' Road to Life''. He began his Italian film career as a script supervisor in 1939, working his way up to an assistant director the following year. In 1949 he worked as an assistant to René Clément on his film ''The Walls of Malapaga'' (1949).

His directorial debut was ''Il sentiero dell'odio'' (1950), beginning a prolific career in a variety of genres. He met his wife Teresa Terrone (renamed Susan Terry by her agent), who appeared in several of his films, beginning with ''The Mysterious Swordsman''/''Lo spadaccino misterioso'' in 1955.

He directed nearly 40 films between 1950 and 1977, often also writing his own screenplays. Grieco is best known for his adventure, swashbuckler, sword and sandal and Eurospy films with Ken Clark, including the Secret Agent 077 series of imitation James Bond films, which he directed under the pseudonym 'Terence Hathaway' (see filmography). His final film was ''The Mad Dog Killer'' (1977). Grieco also co-wrote the screenplay for ''The Inglorious Bastards'' (1978).

His nephew is David Grieco, who has worked as a writer, producer and director.

Filmography as director

*''Il sentiero dell'odio''
* ''Loving You Is My Sin'' (1954)
*''Island Sinner'' (with Sergio Corbucci) (1954)
*''Tua per la vita'' (1955)
*''The Violent Patriot'' (1956)
*''The Mysterious Swordsman'' (1956)
* '' The Black Devil'' (1957)
*''Pirate of the Black Hawk'' (1958}
*''Pia of Ptolomey'' (1958}
*''Ciao, ciao bambina!'' (1959)
*''The Nights of Lucretia Borgia'' (1959)
*''The Loves of Salammbo'' (1960)
*''The Huns'' (1960)
*''Slave of Rome'' (1961)
*''Julius Caesar Against the Pirates'' (1962)
*' (''Revenge of the Mercenaries'', 1962)
*''Son of the Circus'' (1963)
*''La chica del trébol '' (1964)
*'' Sword of the Empire'' (1964)
*'' Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary'' (as Terence Hathaway) (1965)
*'' Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury'' (as Terence Hathaway) (1965)
*'' Password: Kill Agent Gordon'' (as Terence Hathaway) (with Alberto De Martino) (1966)
*''Special Mission Lady Chaplin'' (as Terence Hathaway) (1966)
*'' Rififi in Amsterdam'' (as Terence Hathaway)( 1966)
*''Argoman the Fantastic Superman'' (as Terence Hathaway) (1967)
*''Tiffany Memorandum'' (as Terence Hathaway) (1967)
*'' The Fuller Report'' (as Terence Hathaway) (1968)
*' (1971)
*''All the Brothers of the West Support Their Father''/''Miss Dynamite/'' (1972)
*''The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine'' (1974)
*''One Man Against the Organization'' (1975)
*''La nipote del prete'' (1976)
*'' Terror in Rome'' (1976)
*''Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito'' (as Sergio Alessandrini) (1977)
*''The Mad Dog Killer'' (1977)

References

External links and sources

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Biography at Mymovies.it

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Italian film directors
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
1917 births
1982 deaths
20th-century Italian male writers