Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
| Movie | Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi? | Self | 2025-11-03 |
| Movie | Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces | Self | 2024-09-23 |
| Movie | Ennio | Self | 2022-02-17 |
| Movie | Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America | Self | 2022-10-20 |
| Movie | Everything You Want | Giorgio | 2017-05-11 |
| Movie | Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts | Self - Filmmaker | 2017-06-14 |
| Movie | Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life | Self | 2017-04-27 |
| Movie | Tonino | Self | 2017-12-28 |
| Movie | Raccontare Venezia | Self | 2017-08-31 |
| Movie | L'abbiamo fatta grossa | Generale | 2016-01-28 |
| Movie | Il segreto di Otello | Self | 2015-02-05 |
| Movie | The Haunting of Helena | 2013-01-14 | |
| Movie | The Years of Lost Images | Self | 2012-07-12 |
| Movie | Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni | Self | 2012-11-10 |
| Movie | Noi c'eravamo | Self | 2011-10-26 |
| Movie | Voi siete qui | Self | 2011-09-08 |
| Movie | Flaiano: il meglio è passato | Himself | 2010-04-01 |
| Movie | Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso | 2009-09-16 | |
| Movie | Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms | Self | 2007-10-11 |
| Movie | The Caiman | Franco Caspio | 2006-03-24 |
| Movie | Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds | Self | 2006-02-19 |
| Movie | Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things | Self | 2006-03-08 |
| Movie | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self | 2005-07-17 |
| Movie | Western all'italiana | 2004-01-01 | |
| Movie | Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté | Self - Interviewee | 2004-01-12 |
| Movie | Celluloide | Civalleri (uncredited) | 1996-01-26 |
| Movie | Un eroe borghese | governatore Banca d'Italia | 1995-03-03 |
| Movie | The Long Silence | Procuratore Capo | 1993-03-19 |
| Movie | The Assassin | 1961-04-01 | |
| Movie | The Most Wonderful Moment | Don Grazzini | 1957-03-21 |
| Movie | The Doll that Took the Town | 1957-02-06 | |
| Movie | The Girls of San Frediano | Venturini | 1955-03-11 |
| Movie | Abandoned | Scattered Soldier from Tuscany | 1955-09-07 |
| Movie | Chronicle of Poor Lovers | Alfredo Campolmi | 1954-02-19 |
| Movie | High School | Professore di religione | 1954-04-01 |
| Movie | At the Edge of the City | don Antonio | 1953-10-16 |
| Movie | La cieca di Sorrento | Don Pietro Lisandrini | 1953-02-01 |
| Movie | Attention! Bandits! | Lorenzo | 1951-11-10 |