Dino Risi
Gender: Male
Born: 23rd December 1916
Died: 7th June 2008
Nationality: Italy
Movies: A Difficult Life, Dear Father, Dirty Weekend, Fantasma d'amore, Fuga dalla città, I'm Photogenic, I complessi, I mostri, I nostri mariti, I nuovi mostri, Il commissario Lo Gatto, Il Mattatore, Il Vedovo, Il viale della speranza, In the Name of the Italian People, L'Amore in Città, L' Isola bianca, L'ombrellone, La ciociara, La stanza del vescovo, Le bambole, Le bon roi Dagobert, Love in Rome, Madman at War, March on Rome, Noi donne siamo fatte così, Operazione San Gennaro, Pane, amore e..., Poveri ma belli, Profumo di donna, Sunday Lovers, The Easy Life, The Priest's Wife, The Sign of Venus, The Thursday, Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses, Vacanze col gangster, Venice, the Moon and You
Dino Risi (December 23, 1916 – June 7, 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of Commedia all'italiana. He was born in Milan.
At the age of 12 Risi became an orphan and was looked after by relatives and friends of his family. He studied medicine and later became a psychiatrist.
Risi started his career in cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. Later he began directing his own films and was credited with giving early opportunities to future acting stars such as Sophia Loren and Vittorio Gassman.
His biggest hits were Poor, But Handsome (Poveri ma belli), followed by two sequels, which he also directed; A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile); The Easy Life (Il sorpasso); Opiate '67 or, in a cut version, 15 From Rome (I Mostri); and Scent Of A Woman (Profumo di Donna), which was remade by Martin Brest starring Al Pacino in 1992.
In 2002, he was awarded the Golden Lion – Honorary Award (Leone d'oro alla carriera) at the Venice Film Festival for his life-time work. Two of his films, Il giovedì and Il commissario Lo Gatto, were shown in a
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