Luciano Martino

Luciano Martino (22 December 1933 – 14 August 2013) was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.

Luciano Martino
Born	(1933-12-22)22 December 1933 Naples, Italy
Died	14 August 2013(2013-08-14) (aged 79) Malindi, Kenya
Occupation(s)	Film producer, director, screenwriter
Spouse	Edwige Fenech ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 1979)​
Relatives	Sergio Martino (brother)

Biography

Born in Naples, the brother of the director and screenwriter Sergio Martino, he was active in the cinema industry since the early fifties.^[1]

After several credits as screenwriter and assistant director he made his directorial debut with the eurospy film Secret Agent Fireball.^[1] Among the screenplays he collaborated The Whip and the Body by Mario Bava, Arizona Colt by Michele Lupo and the Lamberto Bava's giallo Delirium.^[1] In the seventies he produced and co-wrote a long series of successful commedie sexy all'italiana including Quel gran pezzo dell'Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda, Giovannona Long-Thigh and The School Teacher, which launched the career of Edwige Fenech, with whom he was engaged at the time.^[1][2] With the decline of the genre he focused on television, producing TV series and television films.^[2]

Death

Martino died of a pulmonary edema in his house in Malindi, Kenya.^[2]

Selected filmography (as producer)

• Who Hesitates Is Lost (1960)
• The Warrior Empress (1960)
• Flashman (1967)
• Madame Bovary (1969)
• The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) a.k.a. Blade of the Ripper
• The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
• All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
• Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
• The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
• My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow (1972)
• The Violent Professionals (1973)
• Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
• The Great Alligator River (1979)
• Island of the Fishmen (1979)
• Concorde Affaire '79 (1979)
• Eaten Alive! (1980)
• Cannibal Ferox (1980)
• The Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)
• Ironmaster (1983)
• A Blade in the Dark (1983)
• 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
• Blastfighter (1984)
• Miami Golem (1985)
• Hands of Steel (1986) a.k.a. Fists of Steel, a.k.a. Atomic Cyborg

References

1. Gianni Canova. Enciclopedia del cinema. Garzanti, 2005.
2. "Morto il regista e produttore Luciano Martino Scrisse l'Ubalda e Giovannona coscialunga" [Director and Producer Luciano Martino Died. He Invented the 'B Movie' and the French Phenomenon]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 14 August 2013. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.

External links

• Luciano Martino at IMDb