Steno (director)

Stefano Vanzina
Born	January 15, 1915 Italy
Died	March 13, 1988 (aged 73) Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Screenwriter, Cinematographer
Years active	1949-1988

Steno, the artistic name of Stefano Vanzina (19 January 1915 – 13 March 1988) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Two of his films, Un giorno in pretura (1954) and Febbre da cavallo (1976), were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.^[1]

Selected filmography

• In High Places (1943)
• Annabella's Adventure (1943)
• Black Eagle (1946)
• The Courier of the King (1947)
• The Captain's Daughter (1947)
• The Wolf of the Sila (1949)
• Totò cerca casa (1949)
• A Night of Fame (1949)
• A Dog's Life (with Mario Monicelli, 1950)
• È arrivato il cavaliere! (with Mario Monicelli, 1950)
• Her Favourite Husband (1950)
• Cops and Robbers (with Mario Monicelli, 1951)
• Totò a colori (1952)
• Le infedeli (1953)
• Man, Beast and Virtue (1953)
• Un americano a Roma (1954)
• Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova (1955)
• Nero's Weekend (1956)
• Totò nella luna (1958)
• I Tartassati (1959)
• Tempi duri per i vampiri (1959)
• Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito (1959)
• Letto a tre piazze (1960)
• The Two Colonels (1962)
• Totò Diabolicus (1963)
• Toto vs the Four (1963)
• Letti sbagliati (1965)
• Caprice Italian Style (1968)
• Execution Squad (1972)
• Flatfoot (1973)
• Policewoman (1974)
• Febbre da cavallo (1976)
• Double Murder (1977)
• Amori miei (1978)
• La patata bollente (1979)
• Quando la coppia scoppia (1981)
• Banana Joe (1982)

References

1. "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Retrieved 2010-08-01.

External links

• Steno at the Internet Movie Database