- Studied medicine at university but dropped out, and became first a liquor salesman and then, briefly, a journalist. First foray into film work was filming commercials, and as promoter of a cinema magazine. Worked in Spain from 1957, making his directorial debut there.
- Many of his films are black comedies or satirical observations of social conventions and middle-class sexual mores. He was at times criticised for his stridently bleak view of human nature.
- The London Sunday Times once called him "The Master of Bad Taste".
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 341-345. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- Marco Ferreri was fluent in Spanish.
- He passed away two days shy of his 69th birthday.
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