Aldo Lado
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.
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Films (31)
Hear My Train A-Comin'
2025 · Himself, Thanks
Il notturno di Chopin
2012 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Hard Guns
2005 · Story, Writer
Death in Venice: Interview with Aldo Lado
2002 · Himself
Marquise
1997 · Line Producer
Farinelli
1994 · Executive Producer
Power and Lovers
1994 · Director, Writer, Story
Dark Friday
1993 · Director, Writer
Circle of Fear
1992 · Bearded Cop Talking to Photo Anyalist (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
Ritual of Love
1990 · Screenplay, Director, Story
Sahara Heat
1987 · Director, Writer
La città di Miriam
1983 · Director
Mora
1982 · Père d'Aline
Disobedience
1981 · Screenplay, Director
Day of the Cobra
1980 · Story, Screenplay
Crime in Via Teulada
1980 · Writer, Director
The Humanoid
1979 · Director, Writer
Il prigioniero
1978 · Director
Born Winner
1976 · Screenplay, Director
Late Night Trains
1975 · Director, Writer
The Cousin
1974 · Director
Woman Buried Alive
1973 · Director, Screenplay
La cosa buffa
1972 · Director, Screenplay
Blessed Are the Rich
1972 · Screenplay, Story
Who Saw Her Die?
1972 · Writer, Director
Short Night of Glass Dolls
1971 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Million Dollar Eel
1971 · Writer, First Assistant Director, Story
The Designated Victim
1971 · Story, Assistant Director
The Conformist
1971 · First Assistant Director
Cry of Death
1968 · Story, Screenplay
Colt in the Hand of the Devil
1967 · Assistant Director
