---
name: "Leo Catozzo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/leo-catozzo"
fi1m_id: "leo-catozzo"
tmdb_id: 1848241
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "10 December 1912"
died: "4 March 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 89
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T14:44:51.445004+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."
---

# Leo Catozzo

## Identity

Leo Catozzo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/leo-catozzo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** leo-catozzo
- **TMDB ID:** 1848241
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1848241

Editor. Born 10 December 1912 in Adria, Veneto, Italy. Died 4 March 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 10 December 1912, Adria, Veneto, Italy
- **Died:** 4 March 1997
- **Active:** 1957–1963
- **Also known as:** Leo Cattozzo
- **Frequently works with:** [Brunello Rondi](https://film.one/person/brunello-rondi.md), [Ennio Flaiano](https://film.one/person/ennio-flaiano.md), [Federico Fellini](https://film.one/person/federico-fellini.md), [Tullio Pinelli](https://film.one/person/tullio-pinelli.md), [Angelo Rizzoli](https://film.one/person/angelo-rizzoli.md), [Anouk Aimée](https://film.one/person/anouk-aimee.md), [Marcello Mastroianni](https://film.one/person/marcello-mastroianni.md), [Pier Paolo Pasolini](https://film.one/person/pier-paolo-pasolini.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 88 (1), 1960s 90 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 89 to 83 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $20m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1848241

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*8½*](https://film.one/film/812.md) (91)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Leo Catozzo (also credited as Leo Cattozzo) was an Italian film editor. Born in Adria in 1912, he graduated in law and cello before studying set design and directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He entered the film industry in the early 1940s as a screenwriter and assistant director, primarily on comedies directed by Mario Mattoli.

Catozzo began editing in the 1940s and worked with directors including Alberto Lattuada, Mario Soldati and, most notably, Federico Fellini on films such as *La Strada* (1954), *Nights of Cabiria* (1957), *La Dolce Vita* (1960) and *8½* (1963). He also edited the international production *War and Peace* (1956), for which he received an American Cinema Editors Award. Allergic to acetone, he invented and patented the self-perforating adhesive tape film splicer known as the CIR-Catozzo (or Pressa Catozzo), first used on *Nights of Cabiria*; he later received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award for the device.

Catozzo died in Santa Severa, near Rome, in 1997.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *8½* (1963), Fi1m 91, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/812.md)
- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/la-dolce-vita.md)
- *Nights of Cabiria* (1957), Fi1m 88, as Man with the Sack (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/nights-of-cabiria.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

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

- *8½* (1963), Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/812.md)
- *Boccaccio '70* (1962), Editor
- *The Temptation of Dr. Antonio* (1962), Editor
- *Letters of a Novice* (1960), Editor
- *Sweet Deceptions* (1960), Editor
- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/la-dolce-vita.md)
- *Fortunella* (1958), Editor
- *This Angry Age* (1957), Editor
- *Nights of Cabiria* (1957), as Man with the Sack (uncredited) · Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nights-of-cabiria.md)
- *Guendalina* (1957), Editor
- *War and Peace* (1956), Editor
- *Woman of the River* (1954), Editor
- *Attila* (1954), Editor
- *Ulysses* (1954), Editor
- *La Strada* (1954), Editor
- *The Ship of Condemned Women* (1953), Editor
- *The Wayward Wife* (1953), Editor
- *Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair* (1953), Editor
- *I tre corsari* (1952), Editor
- *Vendetta... sarda* (1952), First Assistant Director
- *My Heart Sings* (1951), First Assistant Director
- *Toto the Third Man* (1951), First Assistant Director
- *Ours are coming* (1951), First Assistant Director
- *Toto the Sheik* (1950), First Assistant Director
- *Tototarzan* (1950), First Assistant Director
- *Angel in the crowd* (1950), Editor
- *I cadetti di Guascogna* (1950), First Assistant Director
- *L'inafferrabile 12* (1950), First Assistant Director
- *Adam and Eve* (1949), First Assistant Director
- *Signorinella* (1949), Assistant Director
- *The Firemen of Viggiù* (1949), First Assistant Director
- *Toto Tours Italy* (1948), First Assistant Director
- *Fifa e arena* (1948), First Assistant Director
- *Assunta Spina* (1948), Assistant Director
- *Partenza ore 7* (1946), First Assistant Director
- *Anything for a Song* (1943), Writer, Editor
- *Una piccola moglie* (1943), Editor
- *The Last Wagon* (1943), First Assistant Director
- *La valle del diavolo* (1943), Editor, Screenplay
- *Labbra serrate* (1942), Screenplay
- *La donna è mobile* (1942), Screenplay
- *I tre aquilotti* (1942), Assistant Director
- *Stasera niente di nuovo* (1942), Assistant Director
- *I Live as I Please* (1942), Writer

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