Giorgio Ferroni

Giorgio Ferroni (April 12, 1908 - August 17, 1981), sometimes credited as Calvin Jackson Padget or Calvin J. Padget, was an Italian film director, film editor and a screenwriter.

Born in Perugia, Ferroni started in the mid 1930s as documentary director and assistant director of Gennaro Righelli, then he debuted as director in 1937, specializing in adventure films. After the war he directed a couple of neorealist films, Pian delle stelle and Tombolo, paradiso nero.

Later Ferroni was very active in swords-and-sandals films, achieved critical attention for the horror Mill of the Stone Women and success with a series of spaghetti westerns starring Giuliano Gemma.

• The Three Wishes (1937)
• The Thrill of the Skies (1940)
• Il fanciullo del West (1943)
• Macario Against Zagomar (1944)
• Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
• The Trojan Horse (1961)
• The Bacchantes (1961)
• Coriolanus: Hero without a Country (1963)
• Hercules vs. Moloch (1963)
• Hero of Rome (1964)
• The Lion of Thebes (1964)
• Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965)
• For a Few Extra Dollars (1966)
• Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966)
• Wanted (1967)
• The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
• The Scalawag Bunch (1971)
• The Night of the Devils (1972)
• Who Breaks... Pays (1975)