Ugo Pirro Adaptations: Books, Screen and Facts

Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist.

== Biography == Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani (Attention! Bandits!, 1951, and The Hunchback of Rome, 1960). His screenplays of the 1970s include films Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which both won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, with Pirro being nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay respectively as a part of separate writing duos. Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being The Camp Followers (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and Celluloide, adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996. Pirro died in Rome in 2008.

== Works ==

=== Films === Attention! Bandits! (1951) Empty Eyes (1953) Songs of Italy (1955) The Wolves (1956) L'amore più bello (1957) The Most Wonderful Moment (1957) Cerasella (1959) The Hunchback of Rome (1960) La garçonnière (1960) 5 Branded Women (1960) Warriors Five (1962) The Verona Trial (1963) The Camp Followers (1965) Wake Up and Die (1966) Navajo Joe (1966...

Quick facts about Ugo Pirro

• Name: Ugo Pirro
• Known for: Ugo Pirro was an Italian screenwriter and novelist.
• Category: book adaptations
• Wikidata ID: Q33801

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