
Pino Donaggio
Sound
Born November 24, 1941 · Burano, Veneto, Italy
Also known as Giuseppe Donaggio · Pino Donnagio
Biography
Giuseppe "Pino" Donaggio (born 24 November 1941) is an Italian musician, singer, and composer of film and television scores. A classically-trained violinist, Donaggio is known for his collaborations with director Brian De Palma, and for his work in both European and American genre cinema. He has won two Italian Golden Globe Awards, and has been nominated for two David di Donatello, four Golden Ciak, two Nastro d'Argento, and a Saturn Award. Born in Burano (an island of Venice), into a family of musicians, Donaggio began studying violin at the age of ten, first at the Benedetto Marcello conservatory in Venice, followed by the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. At the age of 14, he made his solo debut in a Vivaldi concert for Italian radio, then went on to play for both the I Solisti Veneti and the Solisti di Milano. The discovery of rock and roll during the summer of 1959 ended Donaggio's classical career when he made his singing debut with Paul Anka. He then began to write his own songs and established himself as one of Italy's prominent singer-songwriters. He took part in the Sanremo Festival with "Come sinfonia" (1961) and had a string of successes including "Una casa in cima al mondo". However, his greatest hit was the 1965 hit "Io che non vivo", which sold 80 million records worldwide and was performed most popularly in English as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" by Dusty Springfield and Elvis Presley. His first film was the British/Italian horror film Don't Look Now. Since then he has composed music for several films, including Dario Argento's Two Evil Eyes, Trauma and Do You Like Hitchcock? He also composed the scores for several horror films including Piranha, Tourist Trap, The Howling, The Black Cat and Seed of Chucky. He works regularly with US director Brian De Palma, scoring De Palma's Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain and Passion. In 2012 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pino Donaggio, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Time Machine Award · 2013
Filmography50+ titles

Nothing Left to Do but Cry

Blow Out

Carrie

Dressed to Kill

Don't Look Now

Moon Landing

Body Double

Winter in Wartime

The Howling

The Sect

Troublemakers

Déjà Vu

Raising Cain

Two Evil Eyes

Appointment with Death

Tex

The Black Cat

Tourist Trap

Piranha

My Name Is Thomas

The Fan

Trauma

Where I've Never Lived

Mare di grano

Cheeky

Nothing Underneath

Seed of Chucky

The Barbarians

Hotel Colonial

Crawlspace

China 9, Liberty 37

Never Talk to Strangers

Kansas

The Berlin Affair

Passion

Frivolous Lola

One Step from Heaven

The Order

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Ordeal by Innocence

Patrick: Evil Awakens

All Ladies Do It

Spin Me Round

Oblivion

Hercules

The Adventures of Hercules

Night Game

Dancers

Domino

Meridian