Umberto Lenzi at the Festival de Cine de Sitges in October 2008.
Born
(1931-08-06)6 August 1931
Massa Marittima, Italy
Died
(2017-10-19)19 October 2017 (aged 86)
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)
Film director and screenwriter
Years active
1958-1993
Spouse
Olga Pehar
Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist.
A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his first film in 1958 which went unreleased, while his official debut happened in 1961 with Queen of the Seas. Lenzi's films of the 1960s followed popular trends of the era, which led to him directing several spy and erotic thriller films. He followed in suit in the 1970s making giallo films, crime films and making the first Italian cannibal film with Man from the Deep River. He continued making films up until the 1990s and later worked as a novelist writing a series of murder mysteries.
UmbertoLenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied...
UmbertoLenzi (August 6, 1931 – October 19, 2017) was an Italian film director whose filmography encompassed a ranges of genres across a prolific career...
which claimed to present genuine taboo behaviors from around the world. UmbertoLenzi is often cited as originating the cannibal genre with his 1972 film...
Sacrifice!, is a 1972 Italian cannibal exploitation film directed by UmbertoLenzi and starring Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai and Pratitsak Singhara. It is...
Girolami (Il dolce corpo di Deborah [The Sweet Body of Deborah] in 1968), UmbertoLenzi (Orgasmo in 1969, Paranoia [A Quiet Place to Kill] and Così dolce.....
(Italian for "orgasm") is a 1969 giallo film co-written and directed by UmbertoLenzi and starring Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, and Colette Descombes. It follows...
'Scorching Hot Milan') is a 1973 Italian poliziottesco film directed by UmbertoLenzi. Antonio Sabàto: Salvatore Cangemi Philippe Leroy: Roger Daverty Marisa...
buio) is a 1989 psychological thriller directed by Italian director UmbertoLenzi. Mark Glazer is a mentally disturbed young man, who has a sexual obsession...
(1977, UmbertoLenzi) as Luigi Maietto Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1977, UmbertoLenzi) as Sergio Marazzi Brothers Till We Die (1977, UmbertoLenzi) as Sergio...
Ferreri, Carlo Verdone, Ettore Scola, Francesca Archibugi, Paolo Virzì, UmbertoLenzi, Francesco Nuti and many others. Outside of Italy, she is best known...
Ideal Place to Kill') is a 1971 giallo film directed and co-written by UmbertoLenzi, and starring Irene Papas, Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti. An Italian...
Legend of Aeneas. Reeves played Sandokan in two films, both directed by UmbertoLenzi: Sandokan the Great (1963) and Pirates of Malaysia (1964). Reeves said...
Sandok (1964, dir. UmbertoLenzi) The Mountain of Light, a.k.a. Jungle Adventurer, with Richard Harrison (1965, dir. UmbertoLenzi) A 1970 Italian-Spanish...
Guerrieri's The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968), a series of four films with UmbertoLenzi beginning with Orgasmo (1969) and ending with Knife of Ice (1972), and...
released as Welcome to Spring Break) is a 1989 slasher film directed by UmbertoLenzi and Harry Kirkpatrick, and starring Nicolas de Toth, Sarah Buxton, John...
famous Italian horror film directors of the time, including Lucio Fulci, UmbertoLenzi, Antonio Margheriti, Joe D'Amato, Jesús Franco and Alfonso Brescia....
Roland Joffé, Roman Polanski, Henri Verneuil, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, UmbertoLenzi, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. His best-known compositions...
by UmbertoLenzi, and Last Cannibal World (1977) by Ruggero Deodato. Additionally, she also had a part in Eaten Alive! (1980), again by UmbertoLenzi, in...
Spasmo is a 1974 Italian giallo film directed by UmbertoLenzi and starring Robert Hoffmann and Suzy Kendall. A young couple on their nightly hormonal...
Dead) is a 1980 Italian-Spanish science-fiction horror film directed by UmbertoLenzi. It stars Hugo Stiglitz as a TV news reporter who witnesses the collapse...
Place to Kill (Italian: Paranoia) is a 1970 giallo film directed by UmbertoLenzi. Helen, a racecar driver whose personal and professional life is rapidly...
of Spring, Beyond the Door and The Last Hunter. He often worked with UmbertoLenzi, scoring his movies Syndicate Sadists, Rome Armed to the Teeth, Violent...
from criminal violence". With directors such as Fernando Di Leo and UmbertoLenzi and actors such as Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian, poliziotteschi films...
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