Pino Mercanti

Director · 1911–1986 · Palermo, Italy

Biography

Giuseppe Mercanti, best known as Pino Mercanti (16 February 1911 – 3 September 1986), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Palermo, Sicily, Mercanti was a pioneer of the Sicilian cinema as the leading filmmaker and the artistic director of the production company O.F.S. (a.k.a. Organizzazione Filmistica Siciliana), founded by the brothers Francesco and Girolamo Gorgone with the purpose of promoting the production of films on Sicilian soil. Following the bankruptcy of the company, Mercanti moved to Rome, where he directed a number of melodramas, adventure films, Spaghetti Westerns and other genre films, often international co-productions. He was sometimes credited as Joseph Trader.

Directed 20

1970s

1970
The Underground
Director

1960s

1966
Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula
Director
1964
Gentlemen of the Night
Director
Three Dollars of Lead
Director
1963
The Black Duke
Director
1961
The Last of the Vikings
Second Unit Director
1960
Knight of 100 Faces
Director

1950s

1958
Ricordati di Napoli
Director
1957
Primo applauso
Director
1955
Ambush on the Sea
Director
1954
Lacrime d'amore
Director
I cinque dell'Adamello
Director
1953
La carovana del peccato
Director
1952
Serenata amara
Director
La voce del sangue
Director
1951
La vendetta di una pazza
Director
1950
Il principe ribelle
Director

1940s

1948
I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
Director
1946
Malacarne
Director
1945
All'ombra della gloria
Director

Wrote 7