---
name: "Mario Morra"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mario-morra"
fi1m_id: "mario-morra"
imdb_id: "nm0606211"
tmdb_id: 33790
wikidata_id: "Q3848844"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1935"
died: "11 October 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:23:28.513828+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."
---

# Mario Morra

## Identity

Mario Morra

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mario-morra
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mario-morra
- **IMDb ID:** nm0606211
- **TMDB ID:** 33790
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3848844
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Morra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3848844, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606211/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33790

Editor. Born 1 January 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Died 11 October 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1935, Rome, Lazio, Italy
- **Died:** 11 October 2024
- **Active:** 1966–1988
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 93 (1), 1980s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Morra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3848844, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606211/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33790

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Battle of Algiers*](https://film.one/film/the-battle-of-algiers.md) (93)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Cinema Paradiso*](https://film.one/film/cinema-paradiso.md) (84)

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## Biography

Mario Morra (1935–2024) was an Italian film editor, director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, he began working as an assistant editor in the early 1960s and made his debut as a film editor in 1964.

He edited Gillo Pontecorvo's *The Battle of Algiers* (1966) and Giuseppe Tornatore's *Cinema Paradiso* (1988), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Editing in 1990. Morra worked on numerous other films, including *Divorce Italian Style* (1961, as assistant editor), the *Flatfoot* series and *Everybody's Fine* (1990). In the 1970s and 1980s he also directed or wrote several documentaries and Mondo films, often in collaboration with Antonio Climati.

Morra died on 11 October 2024 in Castelnuovo di Porto, near Rome.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cinema Paradiso* (1988), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/cinema-paradiso.md)
- *The Battle of Algiers* (1966), Fi1m 93, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-battle-of-algiers.md)

## Complete filmography (108)

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

- *Fuga Orientale* (2005), Editor
- *Anxiety* (1997), Editor
- *Dark Friday* (1993), Editor
- *Beyond Justice* (1992), Editor
- *Mountain of Diamonds* (1991), series, Editor
- *Especially on Sunday* (1991), Editor
- *Soccer Shoot-Out* (1991), Director
- *The Law of the Desert* (1991), series, Editor
- *Le perversioni degli angeli* (1991), Editor
- *Everybody's Fine* (1990), Editor
- *There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs* (1990), Editor
- *12 Directors for 12 Cities* (1989), Editor
- *The Last Emotion* (1989), Editor
- *Obsession: A Taste for Fear* (1988), Editor
- *Cinema Paradiso* (1988), Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/cinema-paradiso.md)
- *What if Gargiulo Finds Out?* (1988), Editor
- *The Secret of the Sahara* (1988), series, Editor
- *Blood Ties* (1986), Editor
- *The Professor* (1986), Editor
- *Cut and Run* (1985), Editor
- *Wild Beasts* (1984), Editor
- *Savage Zone* (1984), Director, Editor, Story
- *The House of Orchids* (1983), Editor
- *Sweet and Savage* (1983), Director, Editor
- *Turbo Time* (1983), Story, Editor
- *Roma dalla finestra* (1982), Editor
- *Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames* (1982), Editor
- *Flatfoot in Egypt* (1980), Editor
- *Pole Position: i guerrieri della Formula 1* (1980), Story, Editor
- *Tesoromio* (1979), Editor
- *Life Is Beautiful* (1979), Editor
- *Operation Ogre* (1979), Editor
- *Banana Republic* (1979), Editor
- *The Face with Two Left Feet* (1979), Editor
- *The Humanoid* (1979), Editor
- *Dedicated to the Aegean Sea* (1979), Editor
- *Faces of Death* (1978), Editor
- *Break Up* (1978), Editor
- *Formula 1 - Speed fever* (1978), Director
- *Flatfoot in Africa* (1978), Editor
- *Sweetheart* (1977), Editor
- *Apache Woman* (1976), Editor
- *Death Rage* (1976), Editor
- *This Violent World* (1976), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Soldier of Fortune* (1976), Editor
- *La madama* (1976), Editor
- *Savage Man Savage Beast* (1975), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
- *The Left Hand of the Law* (1975), Editor
- *Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca* (1975), Director
- *Flatfoot in Hong Kong* (1975), Editor
- *Zorro* (1975), Editor
- *Virility* (1974), Editor
- *Puzzle* (1974), Editor
- *The Gamecock* (1974), Editor
- *Three Tough Guys* (1974), Editor
- *Bread and Chocolate* (1974), Editor
- *Blood Brothers* (1974), Editor
- *Rugantino* (1973), Editor
- *Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene* (1973), Editor
- *Mr. Hercules Against Karate* (1973), Editor
- *Tony Arzenta* (1973), Editor
- *Little Funny Guy* (1973), Editor
- *Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears* (1973), Editor
- *The Heroes* (1973), Editor
- *Dear Parents* (1973), Editor
- *Indian Summer* (1972), Editor
- *Planet Venus* (1972), Editor
- *Man Called Amen* (1972), Editor
- *Where Does It Hurt?* (1972), Editor
- *Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?* (1972), Editor
- *Winged Devils* (1972), Editor
- *Una cavalla tutta nuda* (1972), Editor
- *A Girl in Australia* (1971), Editor
- *Short Night of Glass Dolls* (1971), Editor
- *Secret Fantasy* (1971), Editor
- *The Black Belly of the Tarantula* (1971), Editor
- *The House of Mature Apples* (1971), Editor
- *Queens of Evil* (1970), Editor
- *The Anonymous Venetian* (1970), Editor
- *Death Occurred Last Night* (1970), Editor
- *Tulips of Haarlem* (1970), Editor
- *Let's Have a Riot* (1970), Editor
- *Germania 7 donne a testa* (1970), Editor
- *Burn!* (1969), Editor
- *Quella piccola differenza* (1969), Editor
- *Check to the Queen* (1969), Editor
- *The Two Kennedys* (1969), Editor
- *Alive or Preferably Dead* (1969), Editor
- *Blow Hot, Blow Cold* (1969), Editor
- *Virgin Merchants* (1969), Editor
- *A Woman on Fire* (1969), Editor
- *Stuntman* (1968), Editor
- *The Deserter and the Nomads* (1968), Editor
- *The Bastard* (1968), Editor
- *Better a Widow* (1968), Editor
- *The Wild Cat* (1968), Editor
- *It's Your Move* (1968), Editor
- *Commandments for a Gangster* (1968), Editor
- *Red Roses for the Fuhrer* (1968), Editor
- *Long Days of Vengeance* (1967), Editor
- *The Tough One* (1966), Editor
- *The Battle of Algiers* (1966), Editor — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/the-battle-of-algiers.md)
- *Seven Guns for the MacGregors* (1966), Editor
- *Stregoni in Tight* (1965), Editor
- *Mondo Inferno* (1964), Editor
- *Mondo Cane 2* (1963), Editor
- *Divorce Italian Style* (1961), Assistant Editor
- *The Glory Brigade* (1953), Editor

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