Tito Carpi

Tito Carpi (Florence, 7 June 1925 – Rome, 3 July 1997) was an Italian screenwriter.

Life and career

From the early 1960s to the early 1990s he worked on more than a hundred films, including many famous films in Italian genre cinema, from the commedia all'italiana to spaghetti westerns, from war films to science fiction films and fantasy films.

In the first half of the 1960s, he mainly worked on films directed by Marino Girolami. Later, the directors he regularly worked with were Enzo G. Castellari, Giuliano Carnimeo, Osvaldo Civirani and Tonino Ricci.

Carpi was mostly credited under his real name. The pseudonyms used as his on-screen credits were Titus Carpenter, Robert Gold and Mathias Mc Donald.

On his work

Asked about his collaboration with Carpi, Enzo G. Castellari called him "a man of gigantic culture, unparalleled humanity, unique skill, and with an ease in writing that always surpassed all those with whom I collaborated. His greatest flaw was modesty; he was reserved, humble, with exemplary discretion--a great gentleman, a man from another time!"

External links

• Tito Carpi at IMDb