Ruggero Maccari

Ruggero Maccari (28 June 1919 – 8 May 1989) was an Italian screenwriter.

Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as The Easy Life, Brutti sporchi e cattivi, or Adua e le compagne.

Awards
He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's Profumo di donna. He won a David di Donatello for Ettore Scola's La famiglia; and he was a 4 time Nastro d'Argento winner for La famiglia, Scola's Passione d'amore and A Special Day, and Antonio Pietrangeli's  Io la conoscevo bene.

Selected filmography

 * Eleven Men and a Ball (1948)
 * The Transporter (1950)
 * Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)
 * The Steamship Owner (1951)
 * The Passaguai Family (1951)
 * I, Hamlet (1952)
 * The Dream of Zorro (1952)
 * Sardinian Vendetta (1952)
 * The Passaguai Family Gets Rich (1952)
 * The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
 * Beauties in Capri (1952)
 * The Doctor of the Mad (1954)
 * Toto Seeks Peace (1954)
 * It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
 * Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love (1954)
 * The Two Friends (1955)
 * Red and Black (1955)
 * Count Max (1957)