Riz Ortolani
Sound
Born March 25, 1926 in Pesaro, Marche, Italy
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.
Filmography
Erinnerungen an Lucio Fulci
Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Un matrimonio
The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti
Self
A Second Childhood
Il figlio più piccolo
Giovanna's Father
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
The Hideout
Linee d'ombra
Self
A Dinner for Them to Meet
The Second Wedding Night
Ma Quando Arrivano Le Ragazze?
Christmas Rematch
The Godfathers of Mondo
In the Jungle: The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust
Himself
Incantato
Knights Of The Quest
Midsummer Night Dance
Grandes ocasiones
The Best Man
The Voyeur
Magnificat
The Angel with the Gun
Brothers and Sisters
Paprika
Killer Crocodile 2
Una fredda mattina di maggio
A Season of Giants
In The Rose Garden
The Dark Sun
The Story of Boys and Girls
Killer Crocodile
Massacre Play
Sposi
The Last Minute
Brothers in Blood
Love & Passion
The Inquiry
Christmas Present
Una domenica sì
The Corruption
Miranda
Graduation Party
Christopher Columbus
Impiegati
The Three of Us
Tuareg: Desert Warrior
The Octopus
Warriors of the Year 2072
A School Trip
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
A Hole in the Windshield
Revenge of the Dead
Valentina
The Girl from Trieste
Holy Cow
I camionisti
Più bello di così si muore
Fear in the City
Nobody's Perfect
Honey
Ghost of Love
Help Me Dream
Madhouse
House on the Edge of the Park
The Warning
Maria - Nur die Nacht war Zeuge
Cannibal Holocaust
The Return of Casanova
Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora
Il corpo della ragassa
Mimi
Gegè Bellavita
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
The Fifth Musketeer
The Burning Years
Tigers in Lipstick
From Hell to Victory
First Love
Brutes and Savages
Le braghe del padrone
Rings of Fear
Cyclone
The Pyjama Girl Case
Double Murder
I Am Afraid
Sahara Cross
Casanova & Co.
Death Steps in the Dark
Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Submission
Holiday Hookers
Blonde in Black Leather
Ritratto di Donna Velata
Paolo Barca, Elementary School Teacher, Practically a Nudist
Mondo candido
How to Kill a Judge
Vieni, vieni amore mio
To Love Ophelia
War Goddess
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Teresa the Thief
One Way
The African Deal
Counselor at Crime
Hospitals: The White Mafia
No, the Case Is Happily Resolved
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
Mafia Junction
The Heroes
Dear Parents
One Russian Summer
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
Don't Torture a Duckling
Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
Jus primae noctis
The Dead Are Alive
Shadows Unseen
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
The Valachi Papers
Where the Bullets Fly
Goodbye Uncle Tom
Secret Fantasy
Do Not Commit Adultery
Web of the Spider
The Hunting Party
Confessions of a Police Captain
The Statue
Say Hello to Yesterday
The Lovemakers
Madron
The McKenzie Break
A Girl Called Jules
The Adventures of Gerard
Disperatamente l'estate scorsa
The Dove Must Not Fly
The Unholy Four
Un caso di coscienza
Andrea Doria -74
With What Love, With How Much Love
Night of the Serpent
Viva Cangaceiro
The Ravine
So Sweet... So Perverse
La coppia
One on Top of the Other
Salt in the Wound
Bootleggers
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
The Fight for Rome
Emma Hamilton
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Anzio
Beyond the Law
The Violent Four
Sardinia Kidnapped
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Day of Anger
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Woman Times Seven
Tiffany Memorandum
Soldier's Girl
Kill and Pray
Make Love, Not War
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Lightning Bolt
Africa Blood and Guts
Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula
David Copperfield
Spy in Your Eye
Con rispetto parlando
Red Dragon
The Glory Guys
The Devil Also Cries
The Car That Became a Star
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Hour of Death
The 7th Dawn
Le ore nude
Old Shatterhand
Ride and Kill
Castle of Blood
The Pitiless Three
Ecco
Horror Castle
The Fall of Rome
Women of the World
Mediterranean Holiday
Il Sorpasso
Mondo Cane
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
Very Important Person
Music of Always
Terrore sulla città
Processo all'amore
Le vacanze del Sor Clemente