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Mario Morra
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Mario Morra (1935 – October 2024) was an Italian film editor, director and screenwriter.
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Life and career
[edit]Born in Rome, Morra began working as an assistant editor in the early 1960s, and made his debut as film editor in 1964.[1] He gradually established himself as one of the most representative of his profession, very active in art films as well as in less ambitious works.[1] In 1990 he was nominated to BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso.[2]
In the 1970s and 1980s, Morra was also director or writer of several successful documentaries and Mondo films, often in collaboration with Antonio Climati, notably Turbo Time, a documentary about the world of car and motorcycle racing.[1]
Morra died in October 2024, at the age of 89.[3]
At the 97th Academy Awards, his name was mentioned in the In Memoriam section.[4]
Selected filmography
[edit]- The Glory Brigade (1953)
- Mondo Cane 2 (1963)
- The Tough One (1966)
- Seven Guns for the MacGregors (1966)
- The Battle of Algiers (1966)
- Red Roses for the Fuhrer (1968)
- It's Your Move (1968)
- The Cats (1968)
- Burn! (1969)
- A Woman on Fire (1969)
- The Anonymous Venetian (1970)
- Death Occurred Last Night (1970)
- Let's Have a Riot (1970)
- Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)
- Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
- A Girl in Australia (1971)
- Winged Devils (1971)
- The Naked Cello (1971)
- Indian Summer (1972)
- Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
- Una cavalla tutta nuda (1972)
- Man Called Amen (1972)
- Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears (1972)
- Tony Arzenta (1973)
- Little Funny Guy (1973)
- The Heroes (1973)
- Dear Parents (1973)
- Rugantino (1973)
- Bread and Chocolate (1973)
- Virility (1974)
- Three Tough Guys (1974)
- Blood Brothers (1974)
- The Gamecock (1974)
- Puzzle (1974)
- Zorro (1975)
- Savage Man Savage Beast (1975, also director)
- Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975)
- The Left Hand of the Law (1975)
- Apache Woman (1976)
- Savana violenta (1976, also director)
- Sexycop (1976)
- Death Rage (1976)
- Cara sposa (1977)
- Flatfoot in Africa (1978)
- Faces of Death (1979)
- Tesoromio (1979)
- Ogro (1979)
- The Humanoid (1979)
- Life Is Beautiful (1979)
- Flatfoot in Egypt (1980)
- Red Bells (1982)
- Dolce e selvaggio (1983, also director)
- Turbo Time (1983, also screenwriter)
- Cut and Run (1985)
- The Professor (1986)
- Blood Ties (1986)
- Cinema Paradiso (1988)
- What if Gargiulo Finds Out? (1988)
- Everybody's Fine (1990)
- There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs (1990)
- Beyond Justice (1992)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Roberto Poppi. "Morra, Mario". Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registi. Gramese, 2002. p. 178.
- ^ "Tornatore all'oscar britannico". La Repubblica. 15 February 1991. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ^ "Morto Mario Morra, il montatore di 'Nuovo cinema Paradiso' di Giuseppe Tornatore". La Repubblica (in Italian). 11 October 2024. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
- ^ "In Memoriam". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- Mario Morra at IMDb
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