- Worked as assistant director under neo-realist director Luigi Zampa from 1948 to 1952. Subsequently in France as assistant to Jean Delannoy and Yves Allégret. Directed his own films from 1953, his best output coming from scripts by Pier Paolo Pasolini (such as Les garçons (1959)) or adaptations of works by Alberto Moravia.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985
- Brother of producer Manolo Bolognini.
- Student of architecture at the University of Florence. Trained in set design and directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
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