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name: "Angelo Francesco Lavagnino"
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imdb_id: "nm0006164"
tmdb_id: 14807
wikidata_id: "Q435856"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "22 February 1909"
died: "21 August 1987"
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# Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

## Identity

Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/angelo-francesco-lavagnino
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** angelo-francesco-lavagnino
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006164
- **TMDB ID:** 14807
- **Wikidata ID:** Q435856
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Francesco_Lavagnino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435856, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006164/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14807

Composer. Born 22 February 1909 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. Died 21 August 1987.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 22 February 1909, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
- **Died:** 21 August 1987
- **Active:** 1951–1969
- **Also known as:** A.F. Lavagnino, A. F. Lavagnino, Francesco Lavagnino, Angelo Lavagnino, Angelo F. Lavagnino, A. Francesco Lavagnino, Francesco Lavagnini
- **Frequently works with:** [Orson Welles](https://film.one/person/orson-welles.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Francesco_Lavagnino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435856, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006164/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14807

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Othello*](https://film.one/film/othello.md) (80)

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## Biography

Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (also credited as A.F. Lavagnino and Angelo Lavagnino) was an Italian composer of film scores. Born in Genoa on 22 February 1909, he studied violin and composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, graduating in 1932. He later taught film music at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena from 1948 to 1963.

Lavagnino began composing for cinema in the early 1950s and scored hundreds of films across genres, including documentaries, peplums and spaghetti westerns. He is noted for his scores for Orson Welles’s *Othello* (1951) and *Chimes at Midnight* (1965), as well as *The Merchant of Venice* (1969), *Legend of the Lost* (1957), *Gorgo* (1961) and *Everybody Go Home!* (1960). He won the Nastro d’Argento for best score twice, for *Continente perduto* (1955) and *Vertigine bianca* (1956). Lavagnino died in Gavi on 21 August 1987.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, lavagninofestival.it, treccani.it.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Othello* (1951), Fi1m 80, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/othello.md)

## Complete filmography (193)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles* (1993), Actor
- *Filming Othello* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *L'Italia in pigiama* (1977), Music
- *Mondo Magic* (1975), Music Supervisor
- *The Regent's Wife* (1974), Music
- *Africa nuda, Africa violenta* (1974), Music
- *Call of the Vampire* (1972), Music
- *Africa Uncensored* (1971), Music
- *Something Creeping in the Dark* (1971), as Prof. Lawrence · Original Music Composer
- *Queens of Evil* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *The Tigers of Mompracem* (1970), Music
- *Symphony of Love* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Il corsaro* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Fortunata y Jacinta* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Zorro in the Court of England* (1970), Music
- *Zorro, the Navarra Marquis* (1969), Music
- *The Merchant of Venice* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *The Specialists* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *The Conspiracy of Torture* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Tarzana: The Wild Woman* (1969), Music
- *Hell Commandos* (1969), Music
- *Un corpo caldo per l'inferno* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *The Battle of the Last Panzer* (1969), Music
- *Poppea's Hot Nights* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?* (1968), Music
- *Vengeance for Vengeance* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *A Gun for One Hundred Graves* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Requiem for a Gringo* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Son of Black Eagle* (1968), Music
- *Dead for a Dollar* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *A Stranger in Paso Bravo* (1968), Music
- *I'll Die for Vengeance* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Samoa, Queen of the Jungle* (1968), Music
- *Volver a vivir* (1968), Music
- *Acid Delirium of the Senses* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Eine Handvoll Helden* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Desert Commandos* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Kill the Wicked!* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Assault on the State Treasure* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North* (1967), Music
- *Snow Devils* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Delitto a Posillipo* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *A Million Dollars for 7 Murders* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Zorro il ribelle* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *The Spy Who Loved Flowers* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *War Between the Planets* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *War of the Planets* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *The Wild, Wild Planet* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Kill, Baby... Kill!* (1966), Music
- *The Invincible* (1966), Music
- *4 Dollars of Revenge* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *So This Is God's Country?* (1966), Music
- *The Tramplers* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *SuperSeven Calling Cairo* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Desert Renegades* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Chimes at Midnight* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Doc, Hands of Steel* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Man from Canyon City* (1965), Music
- *Hands of a Gunfighter* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Legacy of the Incas* (1965), Music
- *008: Operation Exterminate* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Left Handed Johnny West* (1965), Music
- *The Captain from Toledo* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Fall of the Mohicans* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Mission Bloody Mary* (1965), Music
- *Two Idiots at Fort Alamo* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace* (1965), Music
- *Marauders of the Sahara* (1965), Music
- *Jesse James' Kid* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Seven Hours of Gunfire* (1965), Music
- *Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Totò d'Arabia* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Extraconiugale* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *3 Avengers* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Gunmen Of The Rio Grande* (1964), Music
- *The High Bright Sun* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Lost Treasure of the Incas* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *The Castle of the Living Dead* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Hercules Against Rome* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Hero of Rome* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *The Avenger of Venice* (1964), Music
- *Hot Enough for June* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Dawn of a New Day* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Dark Purpose* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Hercules and the Pirates* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Hercules, Samson & Ulysses* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *The Ten Gladiators* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Hercules and the Masked Rider* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Samson and the Slave Queen* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Samson and the Sea Beasts* (1963), Music
- *The Old Testament* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *The Invincible Masked Rider* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Dal sabato al lunedì* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Saladin* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Catherine of Russia* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Imperial Venus* (1962), Music
- *War Gods of Babylon* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Carmen di Trastevere* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Commando* (1962), Music
- *La leggenda di Fra Diavolo* (1962), Music
- *Damon and Pythias* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *The Son of Captain Blood* (1962), as Songs
- *Marco Polo* (1962), Music
- *Pontius Pilate* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Ursus and the Tartar Princess* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Corsican Brothers* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Madame* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Seduction Of The South* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Wonders of Aladdin* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Duel of Champions* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Goliath and the Vampires* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Colossus of Rhodes* (1961), Original Music Composer, Music Director
- *The Grand Olympics* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Joy of Living* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Italia '61* (1961), Music
- *Odissea nuda* (1961), Music
- *Gorgo* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Revolt of the Slaves* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Esther and the King* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Everybody Go Home!* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Warrior Empress* (1960), Music
- *The Angel Wore Red* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Savage Innocents* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Siege of Syracuse* (1960), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Five Branded Women* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Messalina* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Gastone* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *I baccanali di Tiberio* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Ferdinand I King of Naples* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Days of Pompeii* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura* (1959), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Il padrone delle ferriere* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Sign of the Gladiator* (1959), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Soledad* (1959), Music
- *L'isola del tesoro* (1959), series, as Songs
- *First Love* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Las locuras de Bárbara* (1959), Music
- *Adventure in the city* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *The Naked Maja* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Il bacio del sole* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Storm Over Jamaica* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Cannon Serenade* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Behind the Great Wall* (1958), Music
- *Il cielo brucia* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *He Thief, She Thief* (1958), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Legend of the Lost* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Female Three Times* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Il conte Max* (1957), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *L'oceano ci Chiama* (1957), Music
- *Engaged to Death* (1957), Music
- *Song of the Forest* (1957), Music
- *White Vertigo* (1956), Music
- *Pasional* (1956), Music
- *Roland the Mighty* (1956), Music
- *The Awakening* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *The Rocket from Calabuch* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Nero's Mistress* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Empire in the Sun* (1956), Music
- *The Wanderers* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Rice Girl* (1956), Conductor, Original Music Composer
- *The Bachelor* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Un po' di cielo* (1955), Music
- *Girls of Today* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Courtyard* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Destinazione Piovarolo* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Bravissimo* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Paradise* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *L'ultimo amante* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The Miller's Beautiful Wife* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Lost Continent* (1955), Music
- *Toto and Carolina* (1955), Conductor, Original Music Composer
- *Non scherzare con le donne* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Woman of the River* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Sins of Casanova* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *An American in Rome* (1954), Conductor, Original Music Composer
- *Mambo* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Human Torpedoes* (1954), Music
- *Il matrimonio* (1954), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *La tua donna* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Man, Beast and Virtue* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Africa Under The Sea* (1953), Music
- *Il bandolero stanco* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *The Station* (1952), Music
- *Othello* (1951), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/othello.md)
- *Mamma mia, che impressione!* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Il diavolo in convento* (1950), Music
- *Strano appuntamento* (1950), Music
- *Che tempi!* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Christmas at Camp 119* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Morte di un bandito*, as Compositor

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