Piero Pierotti (1 January 1912 â€" 4 May 1970) was an Italian
director, screenwriter and journalist.Born in Pisa, Pierotti started
his career as a journalist, working for La Nazione and Il Nuovo
Corriere,and later founding the newspaper Corriere dell'Arno. After
some amateur shorts, he moved to Rome where he enrolled in the courses
of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating
in 1939. Pierotti later started teaching direction at the University
of Pisa, and at the same time he was also active as a documentarist
and an assistant director, often collaborating with Raffaello
Matarazzo.Active as a screenwriter since 1955, in the late 1950s he
made his directional debut with L'arciere nero and he then directed
fifteen films until 1969, being mainly active in the adventure and
peplum genres. He was sometimes credited as Peter E. Stanley.
director, screenwriter and journalist.Born in Pisa, Pierotti started
his career as a journalist, working for La Nazione and Il Nuovo
Corriere,and later founding the newspaper Corriere dell'Arno. After
some amateur shorts, he moved to Rome where he enrolled in the courses
of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating
in 1939. Pierotti later started teaching direction at the University
of Pisa, and at the same time he was also active as a documentarist
and an assistant director, often collaborating with Raffaello
Matarazzo.Active as a screenwriter since 1955, in the late 1950s he
made his directional debut with L'arciere nero and he then directed
fifteen films until 1969, being mainly active in the adventure and
peplum genres. He was sometimes credited as Peter E. Stanley.
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