Aldo Lado
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- December 5, 1934, Fiume, Istria, Italy [now Rijeka, Croatia]
- Died
- November 25, 2023
- Movies
- 27
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2025 | Hear My Train A-Comin' | Himself |
| 2002 | Death in Venice: Interview with Aldo Lado | Himself |
| 1992 | Circle of Fear | Bearded Cop Talking to Photo Anyalist (uncredited) |
| 1982 | Mora | Père d'Aline |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2012 | Il notturno di Chopin | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2005 | Hollywood Flies | Writer |
| 1994 | Power and Lovers | Director, Writer |
| 1993 | Dark Friday | Director, Writer |
| 1992 | Circle of Fear | Director, Screenplay |
| 1990 | Ritual of Love | Director, Screenplay |
| 1987 | Sahara Heat | Director, Writer |
| 1983 | La città di Miriam | Director |
| 1981 | Disobedience | Director, Screenplay |
| 1980 | Day of the Cobra | Screenplay |
| 1980 | Crime in Via Teulada | Writer, Director |
| 1979 | The Humanoid | Director, Writer |
| 1978 | Il prigioniero | Director |
| 1976 | Born Winner | Director, Screenplay |
| 1975 | Late Night Trains | Director, Writer |
| 1974 | The Cousin | Director |
| 1973 | Woman Buried Alive | Director, Screenplay |
| 1972 | La cosa buffa | Director, Screenplay |
| 1972 | Blessed Are the Rich | Screenplay |
| 1972 | Who Saw Her Die? | Writer, Director |
| 1971 | Short Night of Glass Dolls | Director, Screenplay |
| 1971 | Million Dollar Eel | Writer |
| 1968 | Cry of Death | Screenplay |
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