Marcello Pagliero

Marcello Pagliero
Born	(1907-01-15)15 January 1907 London, United Kingdom
Died	18 October 1980(1980-10-18) (aged 73) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Film director, Screenwriter

Marcello Pagliero (15 January 1907 – 18 October 1980) was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.

Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Roberto Rossellini film Rome, Open City (1945).

He moved to France in 1947, and continued to work in film until 1960 and in French television after that.

In 1949, he was nominated with six other co-writers for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the Rossellini film Paisan.

Selected filmography

Director

• A Man Walks in the City (1950)
• The Red Rose (1951)
• Vestire gli ignudi (1953)
• Daughters of Destiny (1954)
• Modern Virgin (1954)
• Walk Into Paradise (1956)
• 20,000 Leagues Across the Land (1961)

Screenwriter

• The Devil's Gondola (1946)
• Paisan (1946)

Actor

• Rome, Open City (1945), as Giorgio Manfredi
• Les jeux sont faits (1945), as Pierre Dumaine
• Dédée d'Anvers (1948), as Francesco
• Les Mauvais Coups (1961), as Luigi
• Nick Carter and Red Club (1965), as Prof. Witt
• Les Gauloises bleues (1968), as Le marchand bohémien

External links

• Marcello Pagliero at IMDb
• Allmovie biography