Riz Ortolani

Age: N/A | From: Pesaro, Marche, Italy

TV
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181

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Aliases: Riziero Ortolani , Roger Higgins , Ritz Ortolani

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Pesaro, Marche, Italy

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Movie Involvements: 181

TV Involvements: 4

Most Famous Work

Biography

Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (25 March 1926 – 23 January 2014) was an Italian film composer. Ortolani scored over 300 films working mostly within the Italian genres of Mondo, Giallo, and the Spaghetti Western. Ortolani also scored many Hollywood films and has had some of his compositions reused in films like Drive and Django Unchained. Ortolani's most famous composition is More, which he wrote for the infamous film Mondo Cane. It won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 36th Academy Awards. The song was later covered by Frank Sinatra, Kai Winding, Andy Williams, Roy Orbison, and others. Ortolani was born on 25 March 1926 in Pesaro, Italy. He was the youngest of six children. Ortolani's father, a postal worker, gave his son a violin at age 4. Ortolani later switched to flute after injuring his elbow in a car accident. He studied at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" in his hometown of Pesaro before moving to Rome in 1948 and finding work with the RAI orchestra. Though the chronology is unclear, he also likely served as a musician in the Italian Air Force orchestra, formed a Jazz ensemble, and came to the United States as a Jazz musician in Hollywood, all before scoring his first film. Ortolani married Katyna Ranieri in 1956. In the early 1950s, Ortolani was founder and member of a well-known Italian jazz band. One of his early film scores was for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's 1962 pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of Mondo Cane led Ortolani to score films in England and the United States such as The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968). He also scored the 1972 film The Valachi Papers, directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson. Ortolani scored all or parts of over 200 films, including German westerns like Old Shatterhand (1964) and a long series of Italian giallos, Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy films, Exploitation films and mondo films. These include Il Sorpasso (1962), Castle of Blood (1964), Africa Addio (1966), Day of Anger (1967), Anzio (1968), The McKenzie Break (1970), The Hunting Party (1971), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972), Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), From Hell to Victory (1979), the controversial Ruggero Deodato films Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), and the first series of La piovra (1984). In later years he scored many films for Italian director Pupi Avati. His music was used on soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (1999), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Drive (2011) and Django Unchained (2012). In 2013, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy. Ortolani died on 23 January 2014 in Rome, aged 87. Source: Article "Riz Ortolani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Most Famous Work

Average

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2008	Self	Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 2008-03-06 Movie
2007	Self	Linee d'ombra 2007-10-18 Movie
2003	N/A	The Godfathers of Mondo 2003-10-01 Movie
	Himself	In the Jungle: The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust 2003-06-22 Movie
1958	N/A	Music of Always 1958-07-17 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2010	Original Music Composer	A Second Childhood 2010-10-08 Movie
	Music	Il figlio più piccolo 2010-02-19 Movie
2008	Music	Giovanna's Father 2008-09-12 Movie
2007	Original Music Composer	The Hideout 2007-11-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Dinner for Them to Meet 2007-02-01 Movie
2005	Original Music Composer	The Second Wedding Night 2005-11-11 Movie
	Music	Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? 2005-02-04 Movie
2003	Original Music Composer	In the Jungle: The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust 2003-06-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Incantato 2003-01-24 Movie
1998	Music	Grandes ocasiones 1998-02-06 Movie
1997	Music	The Best Man 1997-10-28 Movie
1994	Music	The Voyeur 1994-01-27 Movie
1993	Original Music Composer	Magnificat 1993-04-09 Movie
1992	Original Music Composer	L'angelo con la pistola 1992-12-18 Movie
1991	Original Music Composer	Paprika 1991-02-13 Movie
1990	Original Music Composer	Killer Crocodile 2 1990-12-01 Movie
	Music	Una fredda mattina di maggio 1990-11-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Season of Giants 1990-11-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	In The Rose Garden 1990-09-01 Movie
	Music	The Dark Sun 1990-02-04 Movie
1989	Original Music Composer	Killer Crocodile 1989-07-30 Movie
	Music	The Story of Boys and Girls 1989-01-01 Movie
	Music	Massacre Play 1989-01-01 Movie
1987	Original Music Composer	The Last Minute 1987-10-08 Movie
	Music	Brothers in Blood 1987-05-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Love & Passion 1987-02-25 Movie
1986	Original Music Composer	The Inquiry 1986-10-26 Movie
	Music	Christmas Present 1986-10-04 Movie
	Music	The Corruption 1986-04-17 Movie
1985	Music	Miranda 1985-10-15 Movie
	Music	Graduation Party 1985-09-24 Movie
	Music	Christopher Columbus 1985-03-07 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Impiegati 1985-02-20 Movie
1984	Music	Noi tre 1984-12-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tuareg: Desert Warrior 1984-03-12 Movie
	Conductor	Tuareg: Desert Warrior 1984-03-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Octopus 1984-03-11 TV Show
	Music	Warriors of the Year 2072 1984-01-28 Movie
1983	Music	Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana 1983-09-18 TV Show
	Music	A Hole in the Windshield 1983-09-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Zeder 1983-08-25 Movie
1982	Original Music Composer	Valentina 1982-11-12 Movie
	Music	The Girl from Trieste 1982-10-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Holy Cow 1982-09-23 Movie
	Music	I camionisti 1982-09-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Più bello di così si muore 1982-03-18 Movie
1981	Original Music Composer	Nobody's Perfect 1981-10-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Honey 1981-05-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ghost of Love 1981-04-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Help Me Dream 1981-03-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Madhouse 1981-03-04 Movie
1980	Original Music Composer	House on the Edge of the Park 1980-11-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Warning 1980-08-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cannibal Holocaust 1980-02-07 Movie
1979	Original Music Composer	Il corpo della ragassa 1979-09-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mimi 1979-06-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Gegè Bellavita 1979-04-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Atrocious Tales of Love and Death 1979-04-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Fifth Musketeer 1979-04-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Burning Years 1979-03-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tigers in Lipstick 1979-03-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	From Hell to Victory 1979-03-15 Movie
1978	Original Music Composer	First Love 1978-11-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Brutes and Savages 1978-11-01 Movie
	Music	Le braghe del padrone 1978-09-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rings of Fear 1978-08-19 Movie
	Music	Cyclone 1978-07-21 Movie
1977	Music	The Pyjama Girl Case 1977-12-31 Movie
	Conductor	Double Murder 1977-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Double Murder 1977-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	I Am Afraid 1977-10-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sahara Cross 1977-09-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Casanova & Co. 1977-03-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Death Steps in the Dark 1977-02-17 Movie
1976	Music	Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden 1976-09-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Submission 1976-03-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Maria - Nur die Nacht war ihr Zeuge 1976-01-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Holiday Hookers 1976-01-01 Movie
1975	Original Music Composer	Blonde in Black Leather 1975-09-17 Movie
	Music	Ritratto di Donna Velata 1975-08-31 TV Show
	Music	Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista 1975-03-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mondo Candido 1975-02-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	How to Kill a Judge 1975-02-05 Movie
	Music	Vieni, vieni amore mio 1975-01-29 Movie
1974	Music	There Is No 13 1974-06-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	To Love Ophelia 1974-04-25 Movie
1973	Original Music Composer	The Amazons 1973-12-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mean Frank and Crazy Tony 1973-11-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Teresa the Thief 1973-10-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	One Way 1973-09-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The African Deal 1973-08-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Counselor at Crime 1973-08-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Hospitals: The White Mafia 1973-08-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	No, the Case Is Happily Resolved 1973-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes 1973-04-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mafia Junction 1973-03-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dear Parents 1973-02-09 Movie
	Music	One Russian Summer 1973-01-01 Movie
1972	Music	A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die 1972-12-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Don't Torture a Duckling 1972-09-29 Movie
	Conductor	Don't Torture a Duckling 1972-09-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome 1972-09-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Jus primae noctis 1972-09-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Dead Are Alive 1972-05-25 Movie
	Music	Shadows Unseen 1972-03-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Seven Blood-Stained Orchids 1972-02-24 Movie
	Conductor	Seven Blood-Stained Orchids 1972-02-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Valachi Papers 1972-01-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Where the Bullets Fly 1972-01-01 Movie
1971	Original Music Composer	Goodbye Uncle Tom 1971-09-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Secret Fantasy 1971-09-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Do Not Commit Adultery 1971-09-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Web of the Spider 1971-08-26 Movie
	Music	The Hunting Party 1971-07-16 Movie
	Conductor	The Hunting Party 1971-07-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Confessions of a Police Captain 1971-03-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Statue 1971-01-27 Movie
	Music	Say Hello to Yesterday 1971-01-14 Movie
1970	Original Music Composer	The Lovemakers 1970-12-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Madron 1970-12-01 Movie
	Music	A Girl Called Jules 1970-07-25 Movie
	Music	Disperatamente l'estate scorsa 1970-03-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Dove Must Not Fly 1970-03-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Unholy Four 1970-03-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Un caso di coscienza 1970-03-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Andrea Doria -74 1970-02-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	With What Love, With What Love 1970-01-29 Movie
1969	Original Music Composer	Night of the Serpent 1969-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Viva Cangaceiro 1969-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Ravine 1969-11-07 Movie
	Music	So Sweet... So Perverse 1969-10-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	One on Top of the Other 1969-08-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Salt in the Wound 1969-08-10 Movie
	Music	Bootleggers 1969-03-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal 1969-02-21 Movie
1968	Original Music Composer	The Fight for Rome 1968-12-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Emma Hamilton 1968-11-28 Movie
	Music	Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell 1968-10-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Girl Who Couldn't Say No 1968-09-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom 1968-09-11 Movie
	Conductor	The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom 1968-09-11 Movie
	Music	Anzio 1968-07-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Beyond the Law 1968-04-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Violent Four 1968-03-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sardinia Kidnapped 1968-03-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Biggest Bundle of Them All 1968-01-17 Movie
1967	Original Music Composer	Day of Anger 1967-12-19 Movie
	Music	On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... 1967-12-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Woman Times Seven 1967-09-29 Movie
	Conductor	Woman Times Seven 1967-09-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tiffany Memorandum 1967-08-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Soldier's Girl 1967-04-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kill and Pray 1967-03-10 Movie
1966	Music	Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore 1966-12-23 Movie
	Music	The Spy with a Cold Nose 1966-12-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lightning Bolt 1966-04-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Africa Addio 1966-02-11 Movie
	Music	Cifrato speciale 1966-01-01 Movie
1965	Music	Spy in Your Eye 1965-09-17 Movie
	Music	Con rispetto parlando 1965-08-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Red Dragon 1965-07-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Glory Guys 1965-07-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Devil Also Cries 1965-03-14 Movie
	Music	The Car That Became a Star 1965-01-01 Movie
1964	Original Music Composer	The Yellow Rolls-Royce 1964-12-31 Movie
	Conductor	The Yellow Rolls-Royce 1964-12-31 Movie
	Music	Hour of Death 1964-11-06 Movie
	Music	The 7th Dawn 1964-09-02 Movie
	Music	Old Shatterhand 1964-04-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ride and Kill 1964-04-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Castle of Blood 1964-02-27 Movie
1963	Original Music Composer	Ecco 1963-11-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Horror Castle 1963-08-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Fall of Rome 1963-02-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Women of the World 1963-01-30 Movie
1962	Music	Mediterranean Holiday 1962-12-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Il Sorpasso 1962-12-05 Movie
	Music	Mondo Cane 1962-03-30 Movie
1961	Original Music Composer	Ursus in the Valley of the Lions 1961-12-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Very Important Person 1961-04-24 Movie
1957	Music	Terrore sulla città 1957-01-30 Movie
1955	Music	Le vacanze del Sor Clemente 1955-06-01 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv