Giovanni Grimaldi

Giovanni Grimaldi (14 November 1917 – 25 February 2001) was an Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director. He was sometimes credited as Gianni Grimaldi.

Biography
Born in Catania, Sicily, Grimaldi entered the cinema industry in 1952 as a screenwriter of a large number of often highly successful films, frequently working together with Bruno Corbucci. Since 1964 he became a prolific director of comedy films, often working with Lando Buzzanca and with the couple Franco and Ciccio.

Aside from films, Grimaldi was a journalist, a collaborator and even the director of several Italian humor magazines such as Trilussa, Candido and Marc'Aurelio. He was also a radio author, a playwright and a television director. He was the father of the director and screenwriter Aldo Grimaldi.

Director and screenwriter

 * Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone (1965)
 * In a Colt's Shadow (1965)
 * James Tont operazione U.N.O. (1965)
 * The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid (1967)
 * I 2 deputati (1968)
 * Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968)
 * Un caso di coscienza (1970)
 * Il magnate (1973)
 * La governante (1974)
 * Il fidanzamento (1975)

Screenwriter

 * I, Hamlet (1952)
 * Matrimonial Agency (1953)
 * It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
 * Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955)
 * Allow Me, Daddy! (1956)
 * Who Hesitates is Lost (1960)
 * The Two Marshals (1961)
 * Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita (1961)
 * Gladiators 7 (1962)
 * The Slave (1962)
 * Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962)
 * The Two Colonels (1962)
 * Toto's First Night (1962)
 * Toto vs. Maciste (1962)
 * The Monk of Monza (1963)
 * Toto vs. the Four (1963)
 * Totò Diabolicus (1963)
 * Toto and Cleopatra (1963)
 * Sexy Toto (1963)
 * I due mafiosi (1964)
 * Tears on Your Face (1964)
 * What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964)
 * Toto of Arabia (1965)
 * Latin Lovers (1965)
 * Mi vedrai tornare (1966)
 * 4 Dollars of Revenge (1966)
 * Nel sole (1967)
 * Angeli senza paradiso (1970)
 * Paths of War (1970)
 * When Women Were Called Virgins (1972)
 * The Inconsolable Widow Thanks All Those Who Consoled Her (1973)