Gillo Pontecorvo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gillo Pontecorvo

Italian filmmaker

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1919

Place of Birth: Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 12-Oct-2006

Profession: screenwriter, actor, composer, film director

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Gillo Pontecorvo (Italian: ['d?illo ponte'k?rvo]; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker.
He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers, 1966) was released.
It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966. His other films include Kapò (1960), which takes place in a World War II concentration camp, and Burn! (Queimada, 1969), starring Marlon Brando and loosely based on the failed slave revolution in Guadeloupe.
In 2000, he received the Pietro Bianchi Award at the Venice Film Festival.
He was also a screenwriter and composer of film scores, and a close friend of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.