Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist.

Biography

Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani (Attention! Bandits!, 1951, and The Hunchback of Rome, 1960). His screenplays of the 1970s include films Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film. Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being The Camp Followers (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and Celluloide, adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996. Pirro died in Rome in 2008.

Works

Films

Television

Novels