Leo Pescarolo

Italian film producer

Leo Pescarolo
Born	1935 Italy
Died	24 May 2006 (aged 70) Rabat, Morocco
Occupation	Film producer

Leo Pescarolo (1935 – 24 May 2006) was an Italian film producer.

The son of the actress Vera Vergani, Pescarolo entered the film industry at age 22, first as an assistant director of Gianni Franciolini and Mario Camerini, and later as a producer.^[1] He produced many films of Liliana Cavani, Giuliano Montaldo and almost all the works of Francesca Archibugi, as well as films by Federico Fellini, Francesco Rosi and Lars von Trier.^[1] In 1994 he won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Producer, for Archibugi's The Great Pumpkin, and in 1997 he won the David di Donatello in the same category for The Truce.^[2] Pescarolo was also a renowned gastronome, and he held a cooking column for a newspaper.^[1]

Selected filmography

Francesco di Assisi (1966)
Galileo (1968)
What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Super Bitch (1973)
Giordano Bruno (1973)
Innocence and Desire (1974)
Autopsy (1975)
Tell Me You Do Everything for Me (1976)
Red Rings of Fear (1978)
Devil in the Flesh (1986)
The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
Mignon Has Come to Stay (1988)
The Sleazy Uncle (1989)
Christian (1989)
Time to Kill (1989)
Towards Evening (1990)
On My Own (1991)
The Great Pumpkin (1993)
With Closed Eyes (1994)
The Truce (1997)
Shooting the Moon (1998)
Time Regained (1999)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Luzhin Defence (2000)
Dogville (2003)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Roberto Rombi (25 May 2006). "Addio Pescarolo produttore di Fellini e Rosi". La Repubblica. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.

External links

Leo Pescarolo at IMDb

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Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Producer

Peg Film (1954)
Dino De Laurentiis / Carlo Ponti (1955)
Cines (1956)
Carlo Ponti (1957)
Dino De Laurentiis (1958)
Franco Cristaldi (1959)
Goffredo Lombardo (1960)
Dino De Laurentiis (1961)
Alfredo Bini (1962)
Goffredo Lombardo (1963)
Angelo Rizzoli (1964)
Franco Cristaldi (1965)
Marco Vicario (1966)
Antonio Musu (1967)
Alfredo Bini (1968)
Luigi Carpentieri / Ermanno Donati (1969)
Alberto Grimaldi (1970)
Silvio Clementelli (1971)
Mario Cecchi Gori (1972)
Alberto Grimaldi (1973)
Franco Cristaldi (1974)
Rusconi Film (1975)
Andrea Rizzoli (1976)
Edmondo Amati (1977)
RAI TV (1978)
RAI TV (1979)
Franco Cristaldi / Nicola Carraro (1980)
Fulvio Lucisano / Mauro Berardi (1981)
Mario Cecchi Gori / Vittorio Cecchi Gori (1982)
RAI TV (1983)
Gianni Minervini (1984)
Fulvio Lucisano (1985)
Fulvio Lucisano (1986)
Franco Committeri (1987)
Angelo Barbagallo / Nanni Moretti (1988)
Mario Cecchi Gori / Vittorio Cecchi Gori (1989)
Claudio Bonivento (1990)
Mario Cecchi Gori / Vittorio Cecchi Gori (1991)
Angelo Barbagallo / Nanni Moretti (1992)
Angelo Rizzoli (1993)
Fulvio Lucisano / Leo Pescarolo (1994)
Mario Cecchi Gori / Vittorio Cecchi Gori (1995)
Angelo Barbagallo / Nanni Moretti (1996)
Antonio Avati / Pupi Avati / Aurelio De Laurentiis (1997)
Marco Risi / Maurizio Tedesco (1998)
Medusa Produzione (1999)
Giuseppe Tornatore (2000)
Tilde Corsi / Gianni Romoli (2001)
Fandango (2002)
Fandango (2003)
Angelo Barbagallo (2004)
Aurelio De Laurentiis (2005)
Riccardo Tozzi / Marco Chimenz / Giovanni Stabilini (2006)
Angelo Barbagallo / Nanni Moretti (2007)
Domenico Procacci (2008)
Fabio Conversi / Maurizio Coppolecchia / Nicola Giuliano / Andrea Occhipinti / Francesca Cima (2009)
Giorgio Diritti / Simone Bachini (2010)
Domenico Procacci (2011)
Domenico Procacci (2012)
Isabella Cocuzza / Arturo Paglia (2013)
Domenico Procacci / Matteo Rovere (2014)
Luigi Musini / Olivia Musini (2015)
Pietro Valsecchi (2016)
Attilio De Razza / Pierpaolo Verga (2017)
Archimede / Rai Cinema / Matteo Garrone / Paolo Del Brocco (2018)
Groenlandia / Rai Cinema / 3 Marys Entertainment (2019)

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