Biography
Luciano Ricceri (26 April 1940 – 1 February 2020) was an Italian production designer and costume designer. He began his career in the early 1960s as an assistant to Piero Gherardi on Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963) and Juliet of the Spirits (1965).
He became a frequent collaborator of Ettore Scola, working as production designer on films including We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), A Special Day (1977), The Family (1987), Captain Fracassa’s Journey (1990) and Unfair Competition (2001). He received the David di Donatello for Best Sets and Decorations for the last two of these, the Nastro d’Argento for Captain Fracassa’s Journey, and the Golden Osella for The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987).
Ricceri also designed for television, including the sets for Giuliano Montaldo’s Marco Polo (1982) and 19 episodes of Inspector Montalbano (1999–2017).
