Biography

Mario Guerra was born in Rome, Italy, in 1922, and dead in 1991. He was a journalist and a screen-player. He began working in "Marc'Aurelio" a satiric italian magazine where Maccari, Steno, Scola, Castellano, Pipolo, Vighi, Magni also wrote. In 1956 he went in "Momento-sera", a roman newspaper, that he directed from 1971 since 1975. From 1975 to 1977 he directed "Il Mezzogiorno d'Abruzzo", another italian newspaper. Then he retired and collaborated as an outsider with "Il Giornale del Mezzogiorno". During his life, he wrote more than 50 movies, mainly "Italian Comedies", often with Vittorio Vighi. The most important of them are: Il bandolero stanco, Suor Letizia, Spia spione, Due contro tutti, I magnifici tre, I promessi sposi, Gli onorevoli, Totò Peppino e la dolce vita, Chi si ferma è perduto, I baccanali di Tiberio, James Tont operazione D.U.E., Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova, Le schiave di Cartagine, Il cielo brucia, La ragazza di Piazza San Pietro, Gli zitelloni, Uomini e nobiluomini, Messalina Venere imperatrice, Un dollaro di fifa, Gerarchi si muore, I soliti rapinatori a Milano, Gli imbroglioni, I maniaci, Super rapina a Milano, Per qualche dollaro in meno, Ringo e Gringo contro tutti, Colpo di sole, Professione bigamo, Rangers attacco: ora x. His brother Ugo Guerra (dead in 1982) was a screen-player, too, and a producer.

- IMDb mini biography by: Stefano Guerra, Rome