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Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his first film in 1958 which went unreleased, while his official debut happened in 1961 with Queen of the Seas.
After 40 years and directing over 60 films, Lenzi more or less retired from film directing and left his mark as one of the most creative and inexhaustible cult film directors of Italy. Umberto Lenzi died on October 19, 2017 at a hospital in the Ostia district of Rome, Italy at age 86.
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Umberto Lenzi (August 6, 1931 – October 19, 2017) was an Italian film director whose filmography encompassed a ranges of genres across a prolific career. Born in Massa Marittima, Tuscany, Lenzi studied law before enrolling at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. [1]
Nov 5, 2017 · Umberto Lenzi, who has died aged 86, was a prolific and adaptable director of Italian commercial cinema. Regularly deploying a zoom lens, vivid Technicolour and extreme close-ups of actors’...
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Oct 21, 2020 · Most lifelong horror-movie fanatics discovered the work of Italian director Umberto Lenzi one of the following ways: Those of a certain age and proximity to urban theatres were drawn to the mondo-movie shocks of 1972’s The Man from Deep River/Sacrifice or, nine years later, the lurid theatre marquee of legendary grindhouse epic Make Them Die…
Umberto Lenzi (August 6, 1931—October 19, 2017) was an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, Eurospy films, spaghetti westerns, Macaroni Combat movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries (in addition to writing many of the screenplays himself).
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Almost Human: Directed by Umberto Lenzi. With Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Laura Belli, Gino Santercole. A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps a young heiress, prompting a cop to pursue him before he can kill the girl once the hefty ransom is paid.