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Luciano Martino

Production

Born December 22, 1933 · Naples, Campania, Italy

Died August 14, 2013

Also known as Luciano Martino Righelli · Martin Donan

Biography

Luciano Martino (22 December 1933 – 14 August 2013) was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, the brother of the director and screenwriter Sergio Martino, he was active in the cinema industry since the early fifties. After several credits as screenwriter and assistant director he made his directorial debut with the eurospy film Secret Agent Fireball. 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. 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. With the decline of the genre he focused on television, producing TV series and television films.

Filmography50+ titles

Pigeon Shoot

1961Screenplay

And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave

1971Producer

The Demon

1964Producer, Screenplay

Almost Human

1974Producer

Prey of Vultures

1972Producer

Brothers Till We Die

1977Producer

The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

1971Producer

Vengeance Is Mine

1967Producer

The Art of Getting Along

1954Second Assistant Director

A Man Called Blade

1977Producer

The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist

1977Producer

The Tough Ones

1976Producer

Zorro

1975Producer

Avenger of the Seven Seas

1962Screenplay

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

1972Producer, Story

Arizona Colt Returns

1970Producer

The Murder Clinic

1966Screenplay

Arizona Colt

1966Story

The Whip and the Body

1963Dialogue, Screenplay

The Case of the Bloody Iris

1972Producer

His Name Was Holy Ghost

1972Producer

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail

1971Producer

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming

1970Producer

No Way Out

1973Producer

The Violent Professionals

1973Producer

Giants of Rome

1964Producer, Screenplay, Story

Girl in the Window

1961Screenplay

Syndicate Sadists

1975Producer

Once Upon a Time in the West There Was a Man Called Invincible

1973Producer

To Hell and Back

1968Producer, Story

The Colossus of Rhodes

1961Screenplay, Story

Puzzle

1974Producer

The Island of the Fishmen

1979Producer, Story

Charge of the Black Lancers

1962Writer

Pirates of the Coast

1960Screenplay, Story

A Blade in the Dark

1983Producer

So Sweet... So Perverse

1969Producer, Story

Son of Hercules vs. Medusa

1963Screenplay, Story

La moglie in vacanza... l'amante in città

1980Producer, Story

$10,000 for a Massacre

1967Producer, Screenplay, Story

Ursus in the Land of Fire

1963Story

Delirium

1987Producer, Story

2019: After the Fall of New York

1983Presenter, Producer

Cannibal Ferox

1981Producer

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

1964Screenplay

Hands of Steel

1986Producer, Production Manager

The Battle of El Alamein

1969Producer

Eaten Alive!

1980Producer

Slave of the Cannibal God

1978Producer

The Mongols

1961Screenplay, Story