Leo Catozzo

Leo Catozzo (10 December 1912 – 4 March 1997) was an Italian award-winning film editor. He was born as Leo Cattozzo - the second "t" in his name was "lost" during his marriage ceremony due to an error by the registrar. He is best known as the designer and manufacturer of the self-perforating adhesive tape film splicer known as CIR-Catozzo ("Costruzione Incollatrici Rapide").

Life and career Born in Adria, Province of Rovigo, the son of the musician Nino, Catozzo graduated in law, then in cello at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, and finally in set design and directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He entered the film industry in the early 1940s as a screenwriter and later assistant director for several of Mario Mattoli's comedy films. 8½ was listed as the 41st best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. In 1956 Catozzo received the American Cinema Editors Award for King Vidor's War and Peace.

Selected filmography Sealed Lips (1942) A Little Wife (1943) Anything for a Song (1943) Toto Seeks Peace (1954) Nights of Cabiria (1959) - also as actor 8½ (1963).