Anton Giulio Majano

Anton Giulio Majano was an Italian director and screenwriter.

He was born in Chieti from Odoardo Majano and Agata Maraschini, a graduate in political science, attended the Military Academy of Modena, from which he emerged with the rank of cavalry officer.

He was one of the "fathers" of the Italian teleromanzo. Coming from "some cinematic experiences not excelled, but with a good literary kit behind him, Majano applied, since the zero hour of Italian TV, to the formula of the" script ", mediating it from the film transcriptions of the widely popular novels made especially from Hollywood cinema.”

For over thirty years he has linked his name to television dramas that have made the history of Italian television, directing actors like Alberto Lupo, Luigi Vannucchi, Virna Lisi, Romolo Valli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Arnoldo Foà, Lea Massari, a very young Loretta Goggi (discovered by him) and many others. His works were also numerous in radio prose, both in EIAR and in RAI, from the late thirties to the early sixties.

In the late thirties he began working in the cinema, as assistant director and screenwriter and at the end of World War II he continued to work on screenplays, until he became director directing numerous films.

Among his films for the cinema are: Vento d'Africa (1949), with Luigi Almirante and Franca Maj , L'eterna catena (1951), with Marcello Mastroianni and Gianna Maria Canale , La domenica della buona gente (1953) ), with Maria Fiore , Memmo Carotenuto and a newcomer Sophia Loren , Cento serenate (1954), with Giacomo Rondinella , Una donna prega (1954), with Alba Arnova and Franca Maj , actress who had already directed in Vento d'Africa and who at that time became his wife, but the marriage collapsed after a few years (later the director was tied to actress Maresa Gallo , who directed in several television dramas), The rival (1955), with Anna Maria Ferrero , Terror on the city (1956), with Andrea Checchi and Maria Fiore , Il padrone delle ferriere (1959), with Virna Lisi and Warner Bentivegna (the latter couple was then again directed by Majano in 1962 in the television drama An American tragedy ), Seddok, l heir of Satan (1960), with Alberto Lupo , Lui, lei and his grandfather (1961), with Gilberto Govi , I fratelli corsi (1961), with Amedeo Nazzari and Emma Danieli .