Nino Baragli

Nino Baragli
Nino Baragli with his spouse at work in 1957
Born
Giovanni Baragli

(1925-10-01)1 October 1925
Died29 May 2013(2013-05-29) (aged 87)
Rome, Italy
OccupationFilm editor
Years active1950–2008

Nino Baragli (1 October 1925 – 29 May 2013) was an Italian film editor with more than 200 film credits.[1][2] Among his films in English, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), both directed by Sergio Leone, are perhaps the best known.

Born in Rome as Giovanni Baragli, he was introduced in the film industry by his uncle, the renowned editor Eraldo Da Roma. He started his career in 1944 as film operator and assistant editor for Marinai senza stelle by Francesco De Robertis.[3]

During his career he worked as editor in more than 200 productions between 1944 and 1996, including works by Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Damiano Damiani, Luigi Zampa, Giuliano Montaldo, Sergio Corbucci, Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Cristina Comencini, Florestano Vancini, Gabriele Salvatores, Alberto Lattuada, Tinto Brass, Margarethe von Trotta, Pál Sándor, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi.

  1. ^ Lentz III, Harris M. (2014). "Nino Baragli". Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013. McFarland. p. 23. ISBN 9780786476657.
  2. ^ "Cinema: scomparso lo storico montatore Nino Baragli - Libero Gossip". Gossip.libero.it. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  3. ^ Masi, Stefano (1985). Nel Buio della Moviola (in Italian). Accademia dell’immagine. OCLC 55668252. An interview with Baragli was published in this book; it was translated in Masi, Stefano (2012). "A Conversation with Nino Baragli". In Crittenden, Roger (ed.). Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing. Emiliano Battista (translator). CRC Press. p. 73. ISBN 9781136054105. Learning how to cut a film is not the same as learning that 2 plus 2 is 4. Sometimes, in film editing, 2 + 2 is 3.