Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa was an Italian film director.
Biography
Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.He directed several Italian neorealism films in the 1940s. In 1949, he filmed Alarm Bells on Ischia, and also shot a separate British version under the title Children of Chance.
During the 1950s and 1960s, he became a director of several successful films belonging to the Commedia all'italiana genre, some starring Alberto Sordi. Sordi and Zampa made A Girl in Australia in Australia.
Filmography
as director
- 1933 Risveglio di una città
- 1941 L'attore scomparso
- 1942 C'è sempre un ma!
- 1942 The Adventures of Fra Diavolo
- 1942 Signorinette
- 1945 L'abito nero da sposa
- 1946 A Yank in Rome
- 1947 To Live in Peace
- 1947 L'onorevole Angelina
- 1948 Difficult Years
- 1949 Alarm Bells
- 1949 Children of Chance
- 1950 The White Line
- 1951 Rome-Paris-Rome
- 1951 His Last Twelve Hours
- 1952 The City Stands Trial
- 1953 We, the Women episode Isa Miranda
- 1953 Easy Years
- 1954 Of Life and Love
- 1955 Woman of Rome
- 1955 The Art of Getting Along
- 1955 Girls of Today
- 1958 Ladro lui, ladra lei
- 1958 The Love Specialist
- 1959 The Magistrate
- 1960 The Traffic Policeman
- 1962 Roaring Years
- 1963 Shivers in Summer
- 1965 A Question of Honour
- 1966 Il Marito di Olga, episode of Our Husbands
- 1967 Anyone Can Play
- 1968 Be Sick... It's Free
- 1970 Let's Have a Riot
- 1971 A Girl in Australia
- 1973 Hospitals: The White Mafia
- 1975 The Flower in His Mouth
- 1977 Il mostro
- 1979 Tigers in Lipstick