Marco Leto | |
Birth Date: | 18 January 1931 |
Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Occupation: | Film director, screenwriter |
Yearsactive: | 1960–1993 |
Marco Leto (18 January 1931 - 21 April 2016) was an Italian film and television director and screenwriter.[1] [2]
Born in Rome, Leto started his career in the 1950s as an assistant director in a large number of films.[3] In 1965 he started a collaboration with RAI TV, for which he directed several serials and TV movies.[3] After signing some screenplays, Leto made his film directorial debut in 1973, with the critically appreciated Black Holiday.[3] In the following years he kept active both in cinema and in television.[3]