Giorgio Simonelli Biography
Giorgio Simonelli (1901 - 1966) was an Italian director, screenwriter and editor, also known for being one of the supporters of the success of Franco & Ciccio, which he directed in a dozen films in the first half of the sixties. In his career he used many pseudonyms, including Johnny Seemonel and Carlo de Lellis. He began his career as a film critic on some weeklies and began working in the world of cinema only in the last years of silent cinema as assistant director to Nicola Fausto Neroni in Maratona (filmed in 1929 and released in 1930) and was a screenwriter and editor, alongside Gennaro Righelli, in the first Italian sound film, La canzone dell'amore (1930). After having worked on the editing of some other films), he made his directorial debut in 1934 alongside Robert Land in Melodrama. In his career he directed over sixty films, specializing in comedies and comic films, including: Let's Love Like This (1940), The Unexpected (1940), There's a Ghost in the Castle (1941), You Don't Joke With Women ( 1941), The Two Tigers (1941), A Husband for the Month of April (1941), The Dance of Fire (1942), Only a Kiss (1942), Two Hearts Among the Beasts (1943), I Don't Move! (1943), Where is Zazà? (1947), Damn the war!... (1948), 11 men and a ball (1948), Love and poison (1949), It happened at the police station (1954), Love song (1954), The wife is the same for everyone (1955), Guaglione (1956). He was also a producer of the film All Quiet in the South (1957).
