Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (8 July 1894 – 4 January 1998) was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò. His 1942 film Non ti pago! was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

Life and career Bragaglia was born in Frosinone, Latium, and was a veteran of World War I. He later founded with his other brother Anton Giulio the Casa d'arte Bragaglia, which quickly became a popular attraction for Rome artists, and an independent theater, "Teatro Sperimentale degli Indipendenti" (1923–1936). The film was greatly inspired by René Clair,

Filmography

Your Money or Your Life (1932) Non son gelosa (1933) Bad Subject (1933) Quella vecchia canaglia (1934) Unripe Fruit (1934) Amore (1936) Tomb of the Angels (1937) Belle o brutte si sposan tutte... (1939) Mad Animals (1939) L'amore si fa così (1939) Un mare di guai (1939) Two on a Vacation (1940) Alessandro, sei grande! (1940) Una famiglia impossibile (1941) La forza bruta (1941) The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941) Barbablù (1941) The Happy Ghost (1941) Due cuori sotto sequestro (1941) La scuola dei timidi (1941) Se io fossi onesto (1942) Violets in Their Hair (1942) La guardia del corpo (1942) Non ti pago! (1942) After Casanova's Fashion (1942) Music on the Run (1943) Life Is Beautiful (1943) Non sono superstizioso... ma! (1943) Il fidanzato di mia moglie (1943) Tutta la vita in ventiquattr'ore (1943) Torna a Sorrento (1945) My Widow and I (1945) Hotel Luna, Room 34 (1946) Pronto chi parla? (1946) The White Primrose (1947) The Other (1947) Totò Le Mokò (1949) Il falco rosso (1949) Toto Looks for a Wife (1950) Bluebeard's Six Wives (1950) Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950) 47 morto che parla (1950) Una bruna indiavolata! (1951) The Secret of Three Points (1952) I'm the Hero (1952) Don Lorenzo (1952) At Sword's Edge (1952) Orient Express (1954) Il falco d'oro (1955) Queen of Babylon (1955) Lazzarella (1957) Io, mammeta e tu (1958) Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! (1958) Caporale di giornata (1958) The Mighty Crusaders (1958) The Sword and the Cross (1958) Le cameriere (1959) Hannibal (1959) The Loves of Hercules (1960) Amazons of Rome (1961) Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (1961) Pastasciutta nel deserto (1961) The Four Monks (1962) The Four Musketeers (1963)