Mario Guerra(I)
- Writer
Mario Guerra was born in Rome, Italy, in 1922, and dead in 1991. He was
a journalist and a screen-player. He began working in "Marc'Aurelio" a
satiric italian magazine where Maccari, Steno, Scola, Castellano,
Pipolo, Vighi, Magni also wrote. In 1956 he went in "Momento-sera", a
roman newspaper, that he directed from 1971 since 1975. From 1975 to
1977 he directed "Il Mezzogiorno d'Abruzzo", another italian newspaper.
Then he retired and collaborated as an outsider with "Il Giornale del
Mezzogiorno". During his life, he wrote more than 50 movies, mainly
"Italian Comedies", often with Vittorio Vighi. The most important of
them are: Il bandolero stanco, Suor Letizia, Spia spione, Due contro
tutti, I magnifici tre, I promessi sposi, Gli onorevoli, Totò Peppino e
la dolce vita, Chi si ferma è perduto, I baccanali di Tiberio, James
Tont operazione D.U.E., Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova, Le schiave di
Cartagine, Il cielo brucia, La ragazza di Piazza San Pietro, Gli
zitelloni, Uomini e nobiluomini, Messalina Venere imperatrice, Un
dollaro di fifa, Gerarchi si muore, I soliti rapinatori a Milano, Gli
imbroglioni, I maniaci, Super rapina a Milano, Per qualche dollaro in
meno, Ringo e Gringo contro tutti, Colpo di sole, Professione bigamo,
Rangers attacco: ora x. His brother Ugo Guerra (dead in 1982) was a
screen-player, too, and a producer.
