Ernesto Gastaldi

Ernesto Gastaldi (born 10 September 1934) is an Italian screenwriter. Film historian and critic Tim Lucas described Gastaldi as the first Italian screenwriter to specialize in horror and thriller films.Template:Sfn Gastaldi worked within several popular genres including pepla, Western and spy films.Template:Sfn

Biography

Ernesto Gastaldi was born on 10 September 1934 in Graglia in the province of Province of Biella, Piedmont.Template:Sfn Gastaldi left his job as a clerk at the Sella bank in Biella to move to Rome where he was admitted into Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.Template:Sfn After graduating, Gastaldi had trouble finding work.Template:Sfn In 1957, Gastaldi wrote his first science fiction novel which the publishers requested an English-language name for the cover.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Gastaldi was sharing an apartment at the time with an Anglo-Italian man named Julian Birri, whom he adapted his name to for his alias, Julian Berry.Template:Sfn Gastaldi would write more crime and science fiction novels during this period such as Sangue intasca (1957) as James Duffy, Brivido sulla schiena (1957) as Freddy Foster and Tempo zero (1960) as Berry.Template:Sfn

Gastaldi's debut as a screenwriter and assistant director was with the film The Vampire and the Ballerina by Renato Polselli.Template:Sfn Gastaldi reflected on writing the film by stating that his working hours were from 8 in the morning until midnight, stating that "if someone had told me I was making a Gothic film I would have laughed."Template:Sfn Other works in gothic horror included Gastaldi writing for Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock and The Whip and the Body.Template:Sfn Following his gothic works, was his work in giallo film, where Gastaldi directed films such as Libido, which was released in 1965.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Selected filmography

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes	Ref(s)
		Screenwriter	Screen story writer	Other
Template:Sort	1960	Yes	Yes			Template:Sfn
Guns of the Black Witch	1961	Yes				Template:Sfn
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory		Yes				Template:Sfn
Queen of the Seas		Yes				Template:Sfn
Venus Against the Son of Hercules	1962		Yes			Template:Sfn
Template:Sort		Yes	Yes			Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Alone Against Rome		Yes				Template:Sfn
Avenger of the Seven Seas		Yes				Template:Sfn
Charge of the Black Lancers		Yes				Template:Sfn
Medusa Against the Son of Hercules	1963	Yes				Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Template:Sort		Yes	Yes	Yes	Assistant director	Template:Sfn
Hercules and the Masked Rider		Yes				Template:Sfn
Terror in the Crypt	1964	Yes				Template:Sfn
Template:Sort		Yes	Yes			Template:Sfn
Template:Sort			Yes			Template:Sfn
Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus	1965	Yes				Template:Sfn
Template:Sort		Yes			Uncredited	Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Libido		Yes		Yes	Director	Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Template:Sort	1966	Yes	Yes			Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Killer's Carnival		Yes
Arizona Colt		Yes	Yes
Blood at Sundown		Yes	Yes
Day of Anger	1967	Yes
Flashman		Yes	Yes			Template:Sfn
Template:Sort	1968	Yes	Yes
Template:Sort	1969	Yes
So Sweet... So Perverse		Yes				Template:Sfn
Template:Sort		Yes				Template:Sfn
Arizona Colt Returns	1970		Yes			Template:Sfn
Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming		Yes
All the Colors of the Dark	1972	Yes				Template:Sfn
Template:Sort		Yes
Template:Sort		Yes
Torso	1973	Yes
The Violent Professionals		Yes	Yes			Template:Sfn
My Name Is Nobody		Yes	Yes			Template:Sfn
Almost Human	1974	Yes				Template:Sfn
Gambling City	1975	Yes	Yes			Template:Sfn
Kidnap Syndicate		Yes				Template:Sfn
Savage Three		Yes	Yes	Yes	Treatment	Template:Sfn
Template:Sort		Yes	Yes			Template:Sfn
Template:Sort		Yes	Yes
Template:Sort	1977	Yes				Template:Sfn
Sahara Cross		Yes				Template:Sfn
Concorde Affaire '79	1979	Yes
Template:Sort	1982	Yes	Yes			Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Notturno con grida		Yes	Yes	Yes	Director	Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Once Upon a Time in America	1984	Yes			Uncredited	Template:Sfn
Shatterer	1987	Yes				Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

External links

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