Biografía y filmografía

Riz Ortolani

Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (25 March 1926 – 23 January 2014) was an Italian film composer. Ortolani scored over 300 films working mostly within the Italian genres of Mondo, Giallo, and the Spaghetti Western. Ortolani also scored many Hollywood films and has had some of his compositions reused in films like Drive and Django Unchained. Ortolani's most famous composition is More, which he wrote for the infamous film Mondo Cane. It won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 36th Academy Awards. The song was later covered by Frank Sinatra, Kai Winding, Andy Williams, Roy Orbison, and others.

Ortolani was born on 25 March 1926 in Pesaro, Italy. He was the youngest of six children. Ortolani's father, a postal worker, gave his son a violin at age 4. Ortolani later switched to flute after injuring his elbow in a car accident. He studied at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" in his hometown of Pesaro before moving to Rome in 1948 and finding work with the RAI orchestra. Though the chronology is unclear, he also likely served as a musician in the Italian Air Force orchestra, formed a Jazz ensemble, and came to the United States as a Jazz musician in Hollywood, all before scoring his first film.

Ortolani married Katyna Ranieri in 1956.

In the early 1950s, Ortolani was founder and member of a well-known Italian jazz band. One of his early film scores was for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's 1962 pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of Mondo Cane led Ortolani to score films in England and the United States such as The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968). He also scored the 1972 film The Valachi Papers, directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson.

Ortolani scored all or parts of over 200 films, including German westerns like Old Shatterhand (1964) and a long series of Italian giallos, Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy films, Exploitation films and mondo films. These include Il Sorpasso (1962), Castle of Blood (1964), Africa Addio (1966), Day of Anger (1967), Anzio (1968), The McKenzie Break (1970), The Hunting Party (1971), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972), Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), From Hell to Victory (1979), the controversial Ruggero Deodato films Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), and the first series of La piovra (1984). In later years he scored many films for Italian director Pupi Avati.

His music was used on soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (1999), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Drive (2011) and Django Unchained (2012).

In 2013, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy.

Ortolani died on 23 January 2014 in Rome, aged 87.

Source: Article "Riz Ortolani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Fotos

Películas (200)

Erinnerungen an Lucio Fulci

2019 · Self

Giallo a la Campagna

2017 · Music

Hell is Already in Us

2017 · Music

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

2017 · Self

Those Days with Lucio

2016 · Music

The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti

2012 · Self

A Second Childhood

2010 · Original Music Composer

Il figlio più piccolo

2010 · Music

Giovanna's Father

2008 · Music

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

2008 · Self

The Hideout

2007 · Original Music Composer

Linee d'ombra

2007 · Self

A Dinner for Them to Meet

2007 · Original Music Composer

The Second Wedding Night

2005 · Original Music Composer

Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?

2005 · Music, Original Music Composer

Christmas Rematch

2004 · Music

The Godfathers of Mondo

2003

In the Jungle - The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust

2003 · Himself, Original Music Composer

Incantato

2003 · Original Music Composer

Knights of the Quest

2001 · Music, Original Music Composer

Midsummer Night Dance

1999 · Original Music Composer

Grandes ocasiones

1998 · Music

The Best Man

1997 · Music

The Voyeur

1994 · Original Music Composer

Magnificat

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Angel with the Gun

1992 · Original Music Composer

Brothers and Sisters

1992 · Original Music Composer

Paprika

1991 · Original Music Composer

Killer Crocodile 2

1990 · Original Music Composer

Una fredda mattina di maggio

1990 · Original Music Composer

A Season of Giants

1990 · Original Music Composer

In The Rose Garden

1990 · Original Music Composer

The Dark Sun

1990 · Original Music Composer

The Story of Boys and Girls

1989 · Original Music Composer

Killer Crocodile

1989 · Original Music Composer

Via Panisperna Boys

1989 · Music, Original Music Composer

Massacre Play

1989 · Original Music Composer

Sposi

1988 · Original Music Composer

The Last Minute

1987 · Original Music Composer

Brothers in Blood

1987 · Music

Love & Passion

1987 · Original Music Composer

The Inquiry

1986 · Original Music Composer

Christmas Present

1986 · Original Music Composer

Una domenica sì

1986 · Original Music Composer

The Corruption

1986 · Music

Miranda

1985 · Original Music Composer

Graduation Party

1985 · Original Music Composer

Impiegati

1985 · Original Music Composer

The Three of Us

1984 · Original Music Composer

Tuareg: Desert Warrior

1984 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Warriors of the Year 2072

1984 · Music

A School Trip

1983 · Original Music Composer

A Hole in the Windshield

1983 · Music

Revenge of the Dead

1983 · Original Music Composer

Valentina

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Girl from Trieste

1982 · Music

Holy Cow

1982 · Original Music Composer

I camionisti

1982 · Original Music Composer

Più bello di così si muore

1982 · Original Music Composer

Fear in the City

1981 · Original Music Composer

Nobody's Perfect

1981 · Original Music Composer

Honey

1981 · Original Music Composer

Ghost of Love

1981 · Original Music Composer

Help Me Dream

1981 · Original Music Composer

Madhouse

1981 · Original Music Composer

House on the Edge of the Park

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Warning

1980 · Original Music Composer

Chocolate

1980 · Original Music Composer

Maria - Nur die Nacht war Zeuge

1980 · Original Music Composer

Cannibal Holocaust

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Return of Casanova

1980 · Original Music Composer

Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora

1980 · Original Music Composer

Il corpo della ragassa

1979 · Original Music Composer

Mimi

1979 · Original Music Composer

Gegè Bellavita

1979 · Original Music Composer

Atrocious Tales of Love and Death

1979 · Original Music Composer

The Fifth Musketeer

1979 · Original Music Composer

The Burning Years

1979 · Original Music Composer

Tigers in Lipstick

1979 · Original Music Composer

From Hell to Victory

1979 · Original Music Composer

First Love

1978 · Original Music Composer

Brutes and Savages

1978 · Original Music Composer

Le braghe del padrone

1978 · Music

Rings of Fear

1978 · Original Music Composer

Cyclone

1978 · Music

The Pyjama Girl Case

1977 · Original Music Composer

Double Murder

1977 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

I Am Afraid

1977 · Original Music Composer

Sahara Cross

1977 · Original Music Composer

Casanova & Company

1977 · Original Music Composer

Death Steps in the Dark

1977 · Original Music Composer

Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden

1976 · Music

Submission

1976 · Original Music Composer

Holiday Hookers

1976 · Original Music Composer

Blonde in Black Leather

1975 · Original Music Composer

Paolo Barca, Elementary School Teacher, Practically a Nudist

1975 · Music

Mondo candido

1975 · Original Music Composer

How to Kill a Judge

1975 · Original Music Composer

Vieni, vieni amore mio

1975 · Music

There Is No 13

1974 · Music

To Love Ophelia

1974 · Original Music Composer