Mario Monicelli

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 29 wins & 22 nominations See more awards »

Known For

For Love and Gold (1966)

Il marchese del Grillo (1981)

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

The Great War (1959)

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Writer (109 titles)

2010 La nuova armata Brancaleone (short) (credit only)

2006 The Roses of the Desert

2000 Come quando fuori piove (TV mini-series)

1999 Un amico magico: il maestro Nino Rota (documentary) (writer)

1999 Dirty Linen (writer)

1995 Looking for Paradise

1994 Cari fottutissimi amici

1992 Parenti serpenti

1991 Rossini! Rossini! (story and screenplay)

1990 Dark Illness

1987 I picari (screenplay / story)

1986 Speriamo che sia femmina

1985 Le due vite di Mattia Pascal (screenplay)

1984 Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cascacenno

1982 All My Friends Part 2 (writer)

1981 Il marchese del Grillo (screenplay / story)

1981 Camera d'albergo

1980 Temporale Rosy

1979 Viaggio con Anita (screenplay)

1977 An Average Little Man

1977 Gran bollito

1976 Signore e signori, buonanotte

1974 Romanzo popolare

1973 Vogliamo i colonnelli (as Monicelli)

1970 Brancaleone at the Crusades (screenplay / story)

1970 Le coppie

1969 Oh, Grandmother's Dead (writer)

1966 I nostri mariti (segment "Il Marito di Olga")

1966 For Love and Gold (screenplay / story)

1965 Casanova 70 (story and screenplay)

1964 Summer Frenzy

1963 The Organizer (story and screenplay)

1962 Boccaccio '70 (segment "Renzo e Luciana")

1961 On the Tiger's Back (screenplay / story)

1960 The Passionate Thief

1959 The Great War (writer)

1958 Angel in a Taxi (screenplay)

1958 Big Deal on Madonna Street (screenplay)

1957 Doctor and the Healer

1957 A Tailor's Maid (screenplay / story)

1956 Donatella

1955 Beautiful But Dangerous

1955 Fatal Desire

1955 Toto and Carolina

1955 A Hero of Our Times

1954 Forbidden

1954 Guai ai vinti

1954 Violenza sul lago (screenplay)

1953 The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi (writer)

1953 Funniest Show on Earth (writer)

1953 Neapolitan Turk (dialogue)

1953 Toto in Color (screenplay)

1953 Perdonami! (writer)

1953 The Unfaithfuls (screenplay)

1952 Toto and the Women

1952 The Lucky Five

1952 Vendetta... sarda

1952 Cani e gatti

1951 Guardie e ladri (dialogue)

1951 Appointment for Murder

1951 O.K. Nero (story & screenplay)

1951 The Naked and the Wicked (original screenplay / as Monicelli)

1951 Accidents to the Taxes!! (screenplay / story)

1951 È l'amor che mi rovina (screenplay / story)

1951 Fame and the Devil (screenplay / story)

1951 Double Cross (screenplay / story)

1951 Toto and the King of Rome

1951 Tizio, Caio, Sempronio (as Monicelli)

1951 Napoleone

1950 Outlaw Girl (screenplay / story)

1950 Soho Conspiracy (story)

1950 The Taming of Dorothy (screenplay)

1950 Vita da cani

1950 L'inafferrabile 12 (screenplay / as Monicelli)

1950 I'm in the Revue (screenplay / story)

1950 È arrivato il cavaliere! (screenplay)

1950 Totò cerca casa

1949 Lure of the Sila (writer)

1949 Bitter Rice (screenplay - uncredited)

1949 In the Name of the Law (screenplay)

1949 Marechiaro (screenplay)

1949 The Iron Swordsman (writer)

1949 Come scopersi l'America (writer)

1948 Accidenti alla guerra!... (screenplay / story)

1948 Fifa e arena (screenplay)

1948 How I Lost the War (screenplay)

1948 The Mysterious Rider (story and screenplay)

1948 Lost Youth (screenplay)

1948 L'eroe della strada (story and screenplay)

1948 Mad About Opera (story)

1948 L'ebreo errante (writer)

1948 Les Misérables (screenplay)

1947 Il corriere del re (screenplay)

1947 La figlia del capitano (adaptation and screenplay / as M. Monicelli)

1947 La fumeria d'oppio

1947 Lo sciopero dei milioni

1946 Peddlin' in Society (screenplay - uncredited)

1946 Return of the Black Eagle (screenplay)

1946 Angel and the Devil (screenplay)

1945 Down with Misery (screenplay)

1945 Fear No Evil (story & screenplay)

1944 The Children Are Watching Us (screenplay - uncredited)

1943 Cortocircuito (dialogue / screenplay)

1942 La donna è mobile (screenplay)

1941 Brivido (dialogue / screenplay)

1940 La granduchessa si diverte (screenplay - uncredited)

1939 Il documento (screenplay)

1937 Pioggia d'estate

1935 The Boys of Via Paal

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Self (32 titles)

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Alternate Names:

Michele Badiek | M. Monicelli | Monicelli

Height:

5' 10" (1.78 m)

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The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway. See more »

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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 687-692. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988. See more »

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Taurus

Mario Monicelli (1915–2010)

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