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Riz Ortolani
Composer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born March 25, 1926Died January 23, 2014 (87 years)
Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (25 March 1926 – 23 January 2014) was an Italian film composer. Ortolani scored over 300 films working mostly within the Italian genres of Mondo, Giallo, and the Spaghetti Western. Ortolani also scored many Hollywood films and has had some of his compositions reused in films like Drive and Django Unchained. Ortolani's most famous composition is More, which he wrote for the infamous film Mondo Cane. It won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 36th Academy Awards. The song was later covered by Frank Sinatra, Kai Winding, Andy Williams, Roy Orbison, and others.
Ortolani was born on 25 March 1926 in Pesaro, Italy. He was the youngest of six children. Ortolani's father, a postal worker, gave his son a violin at age 4. Ortolani later switched to flute after injuring his elbow in a car accident. He studied at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" in his hometown of Pesaro before moving to Rome in 1948 and finding work with the RAI orchestra. Though the chronology is unclear, he also likely served as a musician in the Italian Air Force orchestra, formed a Jazz ensemble, and came to the United States as a Jazz musician in Hollywood, all before scoring his first film.
Ortolani married Katyna Ranieri in 1956.
In the early 1950s, Ortolani was founder and member of a well-known Italian jazz band. One of his early film scores was for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's 1962 pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of Mondo Cane led Ortolani to score films in England and the United States such as The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968). He also scored the 1972 film The Valachi Papers, directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson.
Ortolani scored all or parts of over 200 films, including German westerns like Old Shatterhand (1964) and a long series of Italian giallos, Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy films, Exploitation films and mondo films. These include Il Sorpasso (1962), Castle of Blood (1964), Africa Addio (1966), Day of Anger (1967), Anzio (1968), The McKenzie Break (1970), The Hunting Party (1971), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972), Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), From Hell to Victory (1979), the controversial Ruggero Deodato films Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), and the first series of La piovra (1984). In later years he scored many films for Italian director Pupi Avati.
His music was used on soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (1999), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Drive (2011) and Django Unchained (2012).
In 2013, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy.
Ortolani died on 23 January 2014 in Rome, aged 87.
Source: Article "Riz Ortolani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Ortolani was born on 25 March 1926 in Pesaro, Italy. He was the youngest of six children. Ortolani's father, a postal worker, gave his son a violin at age 4. Ortolani later switched to flute after injuring his elbow in a car accident. He studied at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" in his hometown of Pesaro before moving to Rome in 1948 and finding work with the RAI orchestra. Though the chronology is unclear, he also likely served as a musician in the Italian Air Force orchestra, formed a Jazz ensemble, and came to the United States as a Jazz musician in Hollywood, all before scoring his first film.
Ortolani married Katyna Ranieri in 1956.
In the early 1950s, Ortolani was founder and member of a well-known Italian jazz band. One of his early film scores was for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's 1962 pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of Mondo Cane led Ortolani to score films in England and the United States such as The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968). He also scored the 1972 film The Valachi Papers, directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson.
Ortolani scored all or parts of over 200 films, including German westerns like Old Shatterhand (1964) and a long series of Italian giallos, Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy films, Exploitation films and mondo films. These include Il Sorpasso (1962), Castle of Blood (1964), Africa Addio (1966), Day of Anger (1967), Anzio (1968), The McKenzie Break (1970), The Hunting Party (1971), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972), Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), From Hell to Victory (1979), the controversial Ruggero Deodato films Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), and the first series of La piovra (1984). In later years he scored many films for Italian director Pupi Avati.
His music was used on soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (1999), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Drive (2011) and Django Unchained (2012).
In 2013, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy.
Ortolani died on 23 January 2014 in Rome, aged 87.
Source: Article "Riz Ortolani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies & Shows on Plex
Riz Ortolani Filmography
| 2010 | A Second Childhood · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | The Hideout · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | A Dinner for Them to Meet · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | La seconda notte di nozze · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2003 | In the Jungle: The making of Cannibal Holocaust · as Original Music Composer |
| 2003 | Incantato · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Love, Lies, Passions (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2001 | |
| 1999 | La via degli angeli · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | |
| 1997 | |
| 1995 | P.O.Box Tinto Brass · as Composer |
| 1994 | |
| 1994 | Nefertiti · as Composer |
| 1993 | Magnificat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Angel with a Gun · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Fratelli e sorelle · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | Paprika · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Крестная мать 2 (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1990 | Killer Crocodile 2 · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | A Season of Giants (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1990 | Nel giardino delle rose · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Il sole buio · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | The Story of Boys & Girls · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Killer Crocodile · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Massacre Play · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | I ragazzi di via Panisperna · as Composer |
| 1988 | Bride and Groom · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | The Last Minute · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | Capriccio · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | The Inquiry · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Regalo di Natale · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | |
| 1985 | |
| 1985 | Festa di laurea · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | Christopher Columbus (TV Series) |
| 1985 | Impiegati · as Original Music Composer |
| 1984 | Noi tre · as Original Music Composer |
| 1984 | A Proper Scandal · as Composer |
| 1984 | Tuareg: The Desert Warrior · as Original Music Composer |
| 1984 | The Octopus (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 1984 | |
| 1983 | Una gita scolastica · as Original Music Composer |
| 1983 | That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (TV Series) |
| 1983 | 1919, crónica del alba · as Composer |
| 1983 | Revenge of the Dead · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | I camionisti · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | Mafalda · as Composer |
| 1982 | Valentina · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | Porca vacca · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | Schwarz Rot Gold (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1982 | Più bello di così si muore · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Fear in the City · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Nessuno è perfetto · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | Fantasma d'amore · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Help Me Dream · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Madhouse · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | House on the Edge of the Park · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | The Warning · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | Maria - Nur die Nacht war ihr Zeuge · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | Cannibal Holocaust · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | The Fifth Musketeer · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | Il corpo della ragassa · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | Mimi · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | Gegè Bellavita · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | Atrocious Tales of Love and Death · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | Tigers in Lipstick · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | From Hell to Victory · as Original Music Composer |
| 1978 | Brutes and Savages · as Original Music Composer |
| 1978 | |
| 1978 | First Love · as Original Music Composer |
| 1978 | |
| 1978 | Rings of Fear · as Original Music Composer |
| 1978 | The Pyjama Girl Case · as Original Music Composer |
| 1977 | I Am Afraid · as Original Music Composer |
| 1977 | Sahara Cross · as Original Music Composer |
| 1977 | Some Like It Cool · as Original Music Composer |
| 1977 | Death Steps in the Dark · as Original Music Composer |
| 1976 | Holiday Hookers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1976 | |
| 1976 | Submission · as Original Music Composer |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | Blonde in Black Leather · as Original Music Composer |
| 1975 | Ritratto di Donna Velata (TV Series) |
| 1975 | Mondo candido · as Original Music Composer |
| 1975 | How to Kill a Judge · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | To Love Ophelia · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | Erotomania · as Composer |
| 1974 | |
| 1974 | New Guinea, Island of the Cannibals · as Composer |
| 1973 | War Goddess · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Mean Frank and Crazy Tony · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Teresa the Thief · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | One Way · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Counselor at Crime · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Only Love Defies · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Secrets of a Nurse · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | No, the Case Is Happily Resolved · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | Seven Deaths in the Cats Eyes · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Mafia Junction · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | The Heroes · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Dear Parents · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | |
| 1972 | Don't Torture a Duckling · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | Jus primae noctis · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | Where the Bullets Fly · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | The Valachi Papers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | |
| 1972 | Brother Sun, Sister Moon · as Composer |
| 1972 | The Dead Are Alive · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | Do Not Commit Adultery · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | Goodbye Uncle Tom · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | X-Rated Girl · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | |
| 1971 | Web of the Spider · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | |
| 1971 | The Statue · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | Confessions of a Police Captain · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | La prima notte del Dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | The Adventures of Gerard · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | Invasion · as Composer |
| 1970 | The Dove Must Not Fly · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | The Unholy Four · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | Un caso di coscienza · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Viva Cangaceiro · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Night of the Serpent · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | The Ravine · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | |
| 1969 | One on Top of the Other · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Salt in the Wound · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | La donna a una dimensione · as Composer |
| 1969 | |
| 1968 | The Last Roman · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Dead Men Don't Count · as Composer |
| 1968 | Making of a Lady · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | |
| 1968 | Mal d'Africa · as Composer |
| 1968 | The Girl Who Couldn't Say No · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Anzio · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | The Biggest Bundle of Them All · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Beyond the Law · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | The Violent Four · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Sequestro di persona · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Day of Anger · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Tiffany memorandum · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Requiescant · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | Maya · as Composer |
| 1966 | Operazione Goldman · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Africa Addio · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Das Geheimnis der drei Dschunken · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | The Glory Guys · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | |
| 1964 | |
| 1964 | Cavalca e uccidi · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | |
| 1964 | Le ore nude · as Composer |
| 1964 | |
| 1964 | Castle of Blood · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Three Ruthless Ones · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Ecco · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Horror Castle · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | The Fall of Rome · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Women of the World · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | Mediterranean Holiday · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | The Easy Life · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | |
| 1961 | Valley of the Lions · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | A Coming-Out Party · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | Siempre estaré contigo · as Composer |
| 2016 | Water and Sugar · as Self |
| 2014 | The Oscars · as Self - Composer (in Memoriam) |
| 2008 | Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 · as Self |
| 2003 | In the Jungle: The making of Cannibal Holocaust · as Himself |
| 1977 | Double Murder · as Conductor |
| 1972 | Seven Blood-Stained Orchids · as Conductor |
| 1967 | Woman Times Seven · as Conductor |
| 1964 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce · as Conductor |