Luciano Salce

Luciano Salce 25 September 1922 17 December 1989 was an Italian film director comedian television host producer actor and lyricist His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival As a writer of pop music he used the pseudonym Pilantra During World War II he was a prisoner in Germany He later worked for several years in Brazil