Luciano Salce

Luciano Salce

Actor · Director · Writer

Rome, Lazio, Italy
September 25, 1922

Biography

Luciano Salce (25 September 1922 – 17 December 1989) was an Italian film director, comedian, television host, producer, actor and lyricist. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. As a writer of pop music, he used the pseudonym Pilantra. During World War II, he was a prisoner in Germany. He later worked for several years in Brazil.

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Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Hospitals: The White Mafia
1973Nominee

Best Performance

Hospitals: The White Mafia

Medicine Italian Style
1969Nominee

Best Director

Medicine Italian Style

How I Learned to Love Women
1966Nominee

Best Director

How I Learned to Love Women

Career Highlights

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
1975Highlight

Best Director

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

High Infidelity
1964Highlight

Best Director

High Infidelity