Biography
Ernesto Gastaldi (born 10 September 1934) is an Italian screenwriter. Film historian and critic Tim Lucas described Gastaldi as the first Italian screenwriter to specialize in horror and thriller films. Gastaldi worked within several popular genres including pepla, Western and spy films. Ernesto Gastaldi was born on 10 September 1934 in Graglia in the province of Province of Biella, Piedmont. Gastaldi left his job as a clerk at the Sella bank in Biella to move to Rome where he was admitted into Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. After graduating, Gastaldi had trouble finding work. In 1957, Gastaldi wrote his first science fiction novel which the publishers requested an English-language name for the cover. Gastaldi was sharing an apartment at the time with an Anglo-Italian man named Julian Birri, whom he adapted his name to for his alias, Julian Berry. Gastaldi would write more crime and science fiction novels during this period such as Sangue intasca (1957) as James Duffy, Brivido sulla schiena (1957) as Freddy Foster and Tempo zero (1960) as Berry.Gastaldi's debut as a screenwriter and assistant director was with the film The Vampire and the Ballerina by Renato Polselli. Gastaldi reflected on writing the film by stating that his working hours were from 8 in the morning until midnight, stating that "if someone had told me I was making a Gothic film I would have laughed." Other works in gothic horror included Gastaldi writing for Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock and The Whip and the Body. Following his gothic works, was his work in giallo film, where Gastaldi directed films such as Libido, which was released in 1965.
Filmography
all 122
Movies 122
Writer 104
Screenplay 6
self 5
Director 4
Spaghetti alla Martino (2019)
All the Colors of Giallo (2019)
Private Pictures (2018)
Crime Does Pay (2017)
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… (2014)
The Outsider - The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti (2013)
Like a Beast... Almost (2005)
Dark Fears Behind the Door (2005)
Olga O's Strange Story (1995)
Il giorno del giudizio (1994)
Casablanca Express (1989)
Jiboa (1989)
Stradivari (1988)
The Shatterer (1987)
Provare per credere (1987)
Hands of Steel (1986)
The Killer Is Still Among Us (1986)
The Sicilian Connection (1985)
2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
The Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)
The Nosy One (1981)
Screams in the Night (1981)
I'm Getting a Yacht (1980)
The Great Alligator (1979)
Concorde Affair (1979)
Sahara Cross (1977)
The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist (1977)
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975)
Savage Three (1975)
Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975)
Gambling City (1975)
Gun Moll (1975)
Puzzle (1974)
Almost Human (1974)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment (1973)
The Magnificent Dare Devil (1973)
The Violent Professionals (1973)
Torso (1973)
The Grand Duel (1972)
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)
Death Walks at Midnight (1972)
The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Prey of Vultures (1972)
It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
Death Walks on High Heels (1971)
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
Human Cobras (1971)
The Lonely Violent Beach (1971)
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971)
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming (1970)
The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
Arizona Colt Returns (1970)
La banda de los tres crisantemos (1970)
The Price of Power (1969)
So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
Desert Assault (1969)
The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
To Hell and Back (1968)
Cheers... Cyanide! (1968)
Taste of Vengeance (1968)
The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Day of Anger (1967)
Vengeance Is Mine (1967)
Flashman (1967)
$10,000 Dollars for a Massacre (1967)
Your Turn to Die (1967)
$1,000 on the Black (1966)
Ring Around the World (1966)
Man From Nowhere (1966)
Where Are You Taking That Woman (1966)
A... For Assassin (1966)
Delitto quasi perfetto (1966)
Lightning Bolt (1966)
Fury in Marrakesh (1966)
The Murder Clinic (1966)
Killers Are Challenged (1966)
Cifrato speciale (1966)
The 10th Victim (1965)
Seven Rebel Gladiators (1965)
Libido (1965)
The Possessed (1965)
Secret Agent Fireball (1965)
Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus (1965)
The Long Hair of Death (1964)
The Revenge of the Gladiators (1964)
Giants of Rome (1964)
The Monster of the Opera (1964)
Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
Scandal Nudes (1963)
Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963)
Ursus in the Land of Fire (1963)
La Pupa (1963)
The Whip and the Body (1963)
Horror Castle (1963)
Divorzio alla siciliana (1963)
Son of Hercules vs. Medusa (1963)
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
Alone Against Rome (1962)
Charge of the Black Lancers (1962)
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
Women of Devil's Island (1962)
Duel of Fire (1962)
Nerone '71 (1962)
Mars, God of War (1962)
Avenger of the Seven Seas (1962)
Ultimatum alla vita (1962)
Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento (1961)
Queen of the Seas (1961)
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961)
The Mongols (1961)
Che femmina!! E... che dollari! (1961)
Rocco e le sorelle (1961)
Akiko (1961)
Guns of the Black Witch (1961)
Pirates of the Coast (1960)
Little Girls and High Finance (1960)
The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960)
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GenderMale
Birthday1934-09-10 (89 years old)
Birth PlaceGraglia, Italy
ChildrenSciltian Gastaldi
CitizenshipsItaly
Also Known AsJulyan Perry, Gastad Green, Ernst Gasthaus, E. Castaldi, Julian Berry, Ernesto Castaldi
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