---
name: "Ettore Giannini"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ettore-giannini"
fi1m_id: "ettore-giannini"
imdb_id: "nm0316282"
tmdb_id: 126553
wikidata_id: "Q1371881"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 December 1912"
died: "15 November 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:09:39.372781+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ettore Giannini

## Identity

Ettore Giannini

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ettore-giannini
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ettore-giannini
- **IMDb ID:** nm0316282
- **TMDB ID:** 126553
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1371881
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Giannini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1371881, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126553

Actor. Born 15 December 1912 in Naples. Died 15 November 1990.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 December 1912, Naples
- **Died:** 15 November 1990
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Giannini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1371881, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126553

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Europa '51*](https://film.one/film/europa-51.md) (80)

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## Biography

Ettore Giannini (1912–1990) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and actor. Born in Naples, he graduated in law before training at the Accademia d'arte drammatica in Rome. He began his career writing radio dramas in the 1930s and made his first short film, *La prua incatenata*, in 1936.

Giannini wrote for eight films between 1940 and 1967, including *The City Stands Trial* (1952) and *Neapolitan Carousel* (1954), which he also directed. The latter won an award at the Cannes Film Festival. He appeared as Andrea Casatti in Roberto Rossellini's *Europa '51* (1952). He also worked in theatre, staging the first Italian production of Eugene O'Neill's *Strange Interlude* in 1946, and later directed dubbing for films by Federico Fellini and Francis Ford Coppola.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Europa '51* (1952), Fi1m 80, as Andrea Casatti — [page](https://film.one/film/europa-51.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Master Stroke* (1967), Writer
- *Defend My Love* (1956), Story
- *Neapolitan Carousel* (1954), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Europa '51* (1952), as Andrea Casatti — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/europa-51.md)
- *The City Stands Trial* (1952), Story, Screenplay
- *Crossroads of Passion* (1948), Director
- *L'angelo bianco* (1943), Director
- *Fra' Diavolo* (1942), First Assistant Director
- *Manovre d'amore* (1940), Screenplay

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