Franco Cristaldi (Turin, 3 October 1924 - Montecarlo, 1 July 1992) was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) more than 60 feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.
In 1946 Cristaldi founded Vides Cinematografica in Turin. This production company initially produced short and documentary films, and would later be renamed to Cristaldifilm in the 1980s.
In the 1950s, Cristaldi changed his attention to feature films and moved to Rome. During his long career, he worked with directors and screenwriters such as Francesco Rosi, Pietro Germi, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Giuseppe Tornatore. A noted film producer from some years in his native Italy, some of Cristaldi's most successful films internationally included The Name of the Rose and Nuovo cinema Paradiso. (The former winning a César and two BAFTAs, and the latter winning several BAFTAs, the Grand Prix at Cannes, and Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards).
In 1977 Cristaldi was elected president of the International Federation of Film Producers Associations, and was a member of the jury at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli (born 9 December 1930 in Rome) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 38 films since 1949. His 1990 film Il segreto was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.
Lino Capolicchio (born August 21, 1943) is an Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director. He won a special David di Donatello acting award for his role in Vittorio de Sica's 1970 film, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.
Capolicchio was a well known television actor before breaking into film with an uncredited role in Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew in 1967. He has appeared in over seventy films and television dramas. In 1995 he wrote and directed Pugili, an award winning film about the world of boxing.
For three seasons, Lino Capolicchio provided the voice for Bo Hazard in the Italian broadcasts of The Dukes of Hazard.
Eugenio Finardi (born July 16, 1952) is an Italian singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.
Eugenio Finardi was born in Milan, Italy, on July 16, 1952, in a musical family: his father was an Italian music sound engineer and his mother an American opera singer; at age six Finardi made his first record, Palloncino Rosso Fuoco, a children song.
Finardi became part of a thriving music scene in Milan in the late 1960s. Rooted in the Blues, classic Rock'n'Roll and the hippy counter-culture, he became an active member of the left-wing youth movement of those years. His first band was called The Tiger, in 1969. Soon he started playing with Alberto Camerini, a singer and guitarist born in Brazil, who a few years later would be instrumental in introducing American and British New Wave to Italian Pop music. Together they even emulated the US film Easy Rider by travelling on motorbikes from Milan to Amsterdam. The scene Finardi became part of included among others bands like Area and Stormy Six, Claudio Rocchi and female singer-songwriter Donatella Bardi. Finardi made a living by day teaching English, in which he was fluent because of his American mother, and as a musician by night, as singer, guitarist and piano-player. After forming the band Il Pacco with Camerini, Finardi recorded a single in English in 1973, Spacey Stacey/Hard Rock Honey for Numero Uno, the first Italian independent record label started by singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti and his writing partner Mogol, who had a long string of Italian and international hits under their belts, and who had introduced in Italian Pop music different styles from the US and the UK, from the Rock music of Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, to Blues and Soul. Finardi's single went largely unnoticed.
Ivan Graziani (6 October 1945 – 1 January 1997) was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Graziani was born at Teramo, Abruzzo.
His first band was The Serogan, which he formed in 1963 with Giuseppe Canala, Bruno Tartaglia, and Luciano Cordivani. He then played in Anonima Sound until 1972, and issued his debut solo album, Desperation, in 1973. He launched into acting in 1981 and wrote a book, Arcipielago Chieti, in 1988.