Sergio Grieco

Italian film director and screenwriter

Sergio Grieco

Born| (1917-01-13)13 January 1917

Codevigo, Veneto, Italy

Died| 30 March 1982(1982-03-30) (aged 65)

Rome, Italy

Occupation(s)| Film director
Screenwriter
Years active| 1950–1977

Sergio Grieco (13 January 1917 – 30 March 1982) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.[1]

## Biography

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Sergio's father was the Italian Communist Ruggero Grieco.

Grieco first started in film in the Soviet Union in 1931, working as an assistant to Nikolai Ekk on the first Soviet sound film Road to Life.[2] He began his Italian film career as a script supervisor in 1939, working his way up to an assistant director the following year. In 1949 he worked as an assistant to René Clément on his film The Walls of Malapaga (1949).

His directorial debut was Il sentiero dell'odio (1950), beginning a prolific career in a variety of genres. He met his wife Teresa Terrone (renamed Susan Terry by her agent), who appeared in several of his films, beginning with The Mysterious Swordsman/Lo spadaccino misterioso in 1955.[3]

He directed nearly 40 films between 1950 and 1977, often also writing his own screenplays. Grieco is best known for his adventure, swashbuckler, sword and sandal and Eurospy films with Ken Clark, including the Secret Agent 077 series of imitation James Bond films, which he directed under the pseudonym 'Terence Hathaway' (see filmography). His final film was The Mad Dog Killer (1977). Grieco also co-wrote the screenplay for The Inglorious Bastards (1978).

His nephew is David Grieco, who has worked as a writer, producer and director.[4]

## Filmography as director

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* Il sentiero dell'odio {1950)
* Primo premio: Mariarosa (1952)
* Non è vero... ma ci credo (1952)
* I morti non pagano tasse (1952)
* Fermi tutti... arrivo io! (1953}
* Loving You Is My Sin (1954)
* Island Sinner (with Sergio Corbucci) (1954)
* Tua per la vita (1955)
* The Violent Patriot (1956)
* The Mysterious Swordsman (1956)
* The Black Devil (1957)
* Pirate of the Black Hawk (1958}
* Pia of Ptolomey (1958}
* Ciao, ciao bambina! (1959)
* The Nights of Lucretia Borgia (1959)
* The Loves of Salammbo (1960)
* The Huns (1960)
* Slave of Rome (1961)
* Julius Caesar Against the Pirates (1962)
* Il capitano di ferro [fr] (Revenge of the Mercenaries, 1962)
* Son of the Circus (1963)
* La chica del trébol  (1964)
* Sword of the Empire (1964)
* Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary (as Terence Hathaway) (1965)
* Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury (as Terence Hathaway) (1965)
* Password: Kill Agent Gordon (as Terence Hathaway) (with Alberto De Martino) (1966)
* Special Mission Lady Chaplin (as Terence Hathaway) (1966)
* Rififi in Amsterdam (as Terence Hathaway)( 1966)
* Argoman the Fantastic Superman (as Terence Hathaway) (1967)
* Tiffany Memorandum (as Terence Hathaway) (1967)
* The Fuller Report (as Terence Hathaway) (1968)
* Il sergente Klems [it] (1971)
* All the Brothers of the West Support Their Father/Miss Dynamite/ (1972)
* The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974)
* One Man Against the Organization (1975)
* La nipote del prete (1976)
* Terror in Rome (1976)
* Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito (as Sergio Alessandrini) (1977)
* The Mad Dog Killer (1977)

## References

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1. ^ Crowther, Bosley; Archer, Eugene (October 6, 1960). "The Screen: A Realistic Slice of New York Life:' Weddings and Babies' Bows at New Yorker Viveca Lindfors Stars in Morris Engel Film". Retrieved July 8, 2019 - via NYTimes.com.
2. ^ Blake, Matt. "Italian westerns in the forests of the Sila, an interview with Sergio Grieco | The Wild Eye". Retrieved July 8, 2019.
3. ^ "L'ATTRICE SUSAN TERRY SI RACCONTA A DARKSIDECINEMA.IT : DALL'AMORE PER SERGIO GRIECO ALL'AMICIZIA CON FEDERICO FELLINI". Darkside Cinema. November 30, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
4. ^ "David Grieco". IMDb. Retrieved July 8, 2019.

## External links and sources

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* Sergio Grieco at IMDb
* Biography at Mymovies.it

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