Nando Cicero

Fernando Cicero better known as Nando Cicero 22 January 1931 30 July 1995 was an Italian film director screenwriter and actor Born in Asmara Cicero debuted as an actor working with directors such as Luchino Visconti Senso 1953 Roberto Rossellini Vanina Vanini 1961 Francesco Rosi Salvatore Giuliano 1962 and Alberto Lattuada The Steppe 1962 He starred in eleven films between 1953 and 1962 always in supporting roles After his directorial debut with Lo scippo he directed three Spaghetti Western films Professionals for a Massacre Last of the Badmen and Twice a Judas From 1970 he focused on comedy genre directing some parody films starred by Franco and Ciccio Starting with The School Teacher Cicero established himself as one of the most important and successful directors of the commedia sexy allitaliana film genre Following the decline of the genre he retired in 1983 his last film was Paulo Roberto Cotechino starring Alvaro Vitali and Carmen Russo