Aldo Lado

Aldo Lado was born in Fiume Italy today Rijeka Croatia on 5 December 1934 Lado came up through the film industry as an assistant director notably to Bernardo Bertolucci on The Conformist 1970 After writing the story for the 1971 giallo The Designated Victim he made his directorial debut later that year with Short Night of Glass Dolls Lado took the job after two previous directors Maurizio Lucidi and Antonio Margheriti fell through The film was a success and he followed it with another giallo Who Saw Her Die Lados subsequent films were in a variety of genres including drama Woman Buried Alive The Cousin romance La cosa buffa and horror Last Stop on the Night Train In 1979 he directed the Star Wars cashin The Humanoid for which he was credited under the George Lucasesque pseudonym George B Lewis In 1981 he directed the Alberto Moravia adaptation La disubbidienza In 2013 after a 20year hiatus he directed the film Il Notturno di Chopin Lado published his first short story in 2016 in the anthology Nuovi delitti di lago In 2017 he published I film che non vedrete mai The films you will never see a compilation based on Lados own unproduced screenplays Lado died at his home in Rome on the morning of 25 November 2023 at the age of 88