Quick Facts
Biography
Piero Regnoli (1921–2001) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. Born in 1921, Regnoli worked in the film industry between 1953 and 1991 where he wrote over 110 screenplays and directed 11 films. Regnoli's work ranged from sword-and-sandal films, westerns, horror and sexy comedies. His final film where he was officially credited as a director was La principessa sul pisello in 1976. Regnoli did uncredited direction on the 1986 melodrama Giuro che ti amo starring Nino D'Angelo.
Regnoli was also employed as the film critic for the Vatican's daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Regnoli died in 2001.
Style
Piero Regnoli's work as writer often dealt with themes of eroticism, such as in Brunello Rondi's Tecnica di un amore (1973), Roberto Bianchi Montero's Caligula's Hot Nights (1977) and Mario Bianchi's Satan's Baby Doll (1982). When Regnoli worked as a director, his work still contained these themes but was often toned down.
Selected filmography
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | Ref(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Screenplay | Story | Other | ||||
| Vampiri !It's Never Too Late | 1953 | Yes | |||||
| Vampiri !I Vampiri | 1957 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Acting role as Mr. Bourgeois; Assistant director | ||
| Anche l'inferno trema | 1958 | Yes | |||||
| Playgirls and the Vampire !The Playgirls and the Vampire | 1960 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| I'll See You in Hell | 1960 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Caribbean Hawk | 1962 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| The Defeat of the Barbarians | 1962 | Yes | |||||
| Maciste in King Solomon's Mines | 1964 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Navajo Joe | 1966 | Yes | |||||
| Hills Run Red !The Hills Run Red | 1966 | Yes | |||||
| Third Eye (1966 film) !The Third Eye | 1968 | Yes | |||||
| Seven Red Berets !The Seven Red Berets | 1969 | Yes | |||||
| Gangster's Law | 1969 | Yes | |||||
| Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman | 1971 | Yes | |||||
| And They Smelled the Strange, Exciting, Dangerous Scent of Dollars | 1973 | Yes | |||||
| White Fang | 1973 | Yes | |||||
| Cry of a Prostitute | 1974 | Yes | |||||
| Season for Assassins | 1975 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| La principessa sul pisello | 1976 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Honor and "Guapparia" | 1977 | Yes | |||||
| Naples ... the Camorra Defies, the City Replies | 1979 | Yes | |||||
| Malabimba | 1979 | Yes | |||||
| The New Godfathers | 1979 | Yes | |||||
| Your Life for My Son | 1980 | Yes | |||||
| Nightmare City | 1980 | Yes | |||||
| Patrick Still Lives | 1980 | Yes | |||||
| Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror | 1981 | Yes | |||||
| The Sword of the Barbarians | 1982 | Yes | |||||
| The Bronx Executioner | 1989 | Yes | |||||
| Demonia | 1990 | Yes | Feature-length episode of the television program La Casa del Terror | ||||
| Voices from Beyond | 1991 | Yes | Feature-length episode of the television program La Casa del Terror | ||||
| Smile on the Fox !The Smile of the Fox | 1992 | Yes | |||||
| Hot Laps | 1993 | Yes | |||||
| La ragazza di cortina | 1994 | Yes | |||||
- Salt in the Wound (1969)
- The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia (1982)