
Directing
Born December 5, 1934 · Fiume, Istria, Italy [now Rijeka, Croatia]
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?. Lado's 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 cash-in The Humanoid, for which he was credited under the George Lucas-esque pseudonym "George B. Lewis". In 1981, he directed the Alberto Moravia adaptation La disubbidienza. In 2013, after a 20-year 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 Lado's own unproduced screenplays. Lado died at his home in Rome on the morning of 25 November 2023, at the age of 88.

Il notturno di Chopin
2012

Power and Lovers
1994

Dark Friday
1993

Circle of Fear
1992

Ritual of Love
1990

Sahara Heat
1987
La città di Miriam
1983

Disobedience
1981

Crime in Via Teulada
1980

The Humanoid
1979

Il prigioniero
1978

Born Winner
1976

Late Night Trains
1975

The Cousin
1974

Woman Buried Alive
1973

La cosa buffa
1972

Who Saw Her Die?
1972

Short Night of Glass Dolls
1971