Biography
Carlo Savina (2 August 1919 - 23 June 2002) was an Italian composer and conductor who composed, arranged, and conducted music for films-and is especially remembered for being the music director of films such as The Godfather (1972), Amarcord (1973), and The Bear (1988).
Savina worked with many of the notable film score composers of the 20th century including: Ennio Morricone, Armando Trovajoli, Nino Rota, Mario Nascimbene, Stanley Myers, Stephen Sondheim, Philippe Sarde, and Miklos Rozsa. His work ranged from composing music for frequent Spaghetti Westerns such as Johnny Oro to being the musical director and conductor in Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal.
In 1985 he won the David di Donatello Best Music award for the film score of Pizza Connection.
Carlo Savina came from a musical family—his father was the first clarinet for the orchestra of Italian public radio broadcaster EIAR. Carlo learned the violin as a child and went on to graduate from the Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Verdi in Turin where he studied piano, violin, composition, and conducting. In 1945 he began composing music for radio. Early in his career he was awarded a prize by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He started his own orchestra and soon was famous. In 1950 he began composing and arranging music for film. For the next thirty years he composed, arranged, and conducted music for over 200 films and became one of the most prolific, and perhaps underrated, screen and television composers of the 20th century.
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Filmography
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Movies 215
TV Shows 1
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Feu sur le candidat (1990)
L'Orchestre rouge (1989)
Down There in the Jungle (1986)
The Sicilian Connection (1985)
The Future Is Woman (1984)
Tiger Joe (1982)
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982)
Comin' at Ya! (1981)
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic (1981)
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1979)
Obscene Desire (1978)
The Perfect Crime (1978)
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country (1978)
Suggestionata (1978)
Caligula's Hot Nights (1977)
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito (1977)
Dear Monsters of the Sea (1977)
Nine Guests for a Crime (1977)
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Dear Michele (1976)
Campagnola bella (1976)
Ragazzo di borgata (1976)
Frou-frou del Tabarin (1976)
A Bull for Mounts (1976)
Intimate Relations (1975)
Savage Man Savage Beast (1975)
A Virgin in the Family (1975)
Reflections in Black (1975)
A Diary of a Murderess (1975)
La bolognese (1975)
The House of Exorcism (1975)
L'ingenua (1975)
Heat in the Suburbs (1975)
Carnality (1974)
Orders Signed in White (1974)
La profanazione (1974)
Night of the Skull (1974)
La nipote (1974)
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974)
Nobody's Children (1974)
The Castro's Abbess (1974)
The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974)
Amarcord (1973)
The Magnificent One (1973)
Racconti romani di una ex-novizia (1973)
Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973)
The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)
Fra' Tazio da Velletri (1973)
Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia (1973)
Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Heart (1973)
Ingrid on the Road (1973)
Love and Anarchy (1973)
Le favolose notti d'oriente (1973)
An Animal Called Man (1972)
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor (1972)
La grande avventura di Scaramouche (1972)
Sentence of God (1972)
Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972)
Naked Girl Killed in the Park (1972)
Return of the Holy Ghost (1972)
Gunmen and the Holy Ghost (1972)
Two Brothers in Trinity (1972)
Creeping Death (1972)
Siege of Terror (1972)
Roma (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
1001 Nights of Pleasure (1972)
Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death (1971)
And His Name Was Holy Ghost (1971)
Eye of the Spider (1971)
This Freedom to Have... Wet Wings (1971)
Night of the Damned (1971)
Conquest (1971)
School of Erotic Enjoyment (1971)
Feast of Satan (1971)
The Last Traitor (1971)
Nights and Loves of Don Juan (1971)
The Great Swindle (1971)
Stress (1971)
Belle d'amore (1970)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Shadow of Illusion (1970)
Mr. Superinvisible (1970)
Your Sweet Body to Kill (1970)
The Particular Love (1970)
The Clowns (1970)
And God Said to Cain (1970)
The Two Kennedys (1969)
Simon Bolivar (1969)
Eine Nervensäge gegen alle (1969)
Fangs of the Living Dead (1969)
Heads or Tails (1969)
The Unnaturals (1969)
The Two Magnificent Fresconi (1968)
I Love You (1968)
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester (1968)
Vengeance (1968)
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows (1968)
Caprice Italian Style (1968)
A Long Ride from Hell (1968)
Gun Shy Piluk (1968)
Death Knows No Time (1968)
The Young, the Evil and the Savage (1968)
Massacre Mania (1967)
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas (1967)
Die Easy in Ghentar (1967)
Si muore solo una volta (1967)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Dynamite Joe (1967)
Massacre in the Black Forest (1967)
Vietnam guerra senza fronte (1967)
The Tall Women (1966)
A Few Dollars for Django (1966)
Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966)
Suicide Mission to Singapore (1966)
Fury in Marrakesh (1966)
Delitto d'amore (1966)
Killers Are Challenged (1966)
In the Shadow of the Eagles (1966)
Mutiny at Fort Sharpe (1966)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Latin Lovers (1965)
Secret Agent Fireball (1965)
Two Vikings (1965)
Seven from Thebes (1964)
Bullet in the Flesh (1964)
Veneri al sole (1964)
Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators (1964)
Triumph of the Ten Gladiators (1964)
Sedotti e bidonati (1964)
Time of Indifference (1964)
Red Desert (1964)
Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
Queste pazze, pazze donne (1964)
Amore mio (1964)
Le tardone (1964)
The Tyrant of Castile (1963)
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)
Hercules Against the Mongols (1963)
Ursus in the Land of Fire (1963)
Revenge of the Musketeers (1963)
Crazy Sea (1963)
Siamo tutti pomicioni (1963)
Le motorizzate (1963)
Zorro in the Court of Spain (1963)
Dal sabato al lunedì (1963)
I Am Semiramis (1963)
Saladin the Victorious (1963)
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella (1963)
Revenge of the Black Knight (1963)
Giacobbe ed Esau (1963)
Gli italiani e le donne (1962)
Blood and Defiance (1962)
War Gods of Babylon (1962)
Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
The Rebel Gladiators (1962)
The Iron Captain (1962)
Eva (1962)
The Fury of Achilles (1962)
Twist lolite e vitelloni (1962)
Samson Against the Sheik (1962)
Disorder (1962)
Gerarchi si muore (1961)
The Corsican Brothers (1961)
A Difficult Life (1961)
Seduction Of The South (1961)
Le magnifiche 7 (1961)
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961)
Black City (1961)
Goliath and the Vampires (1961)
Sword of the Conqueror (1961)
Bellezze sulla spiaggia (1961)
The Policeman on Horseback (1961)
Che femmina!! E... che dollari! (1961)
Scandali al mare (1961)
La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo (1961)
Ferragosto in Bikini (1960)
Caccia al marito (1960)
It Started in Naples (1960)
Messalina (1960)
The Cossacks (1960)
I baccanali di Tiberio (1960)
Ferdinand I King of Naples (1959)
The Magistrate (1959)
European Nights (1959)
The Moralist (1959)
The Head of a Tyrant (1959)
Hercules Unchained (1959)
Here comes the gang (1959)
Herod the Great (1959)
The Naked Maja (1958)
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! (1958)
Toto and Marcellino (1958)
You, Your Mother, and Me (1958)
Hercules (1958)
The Mine (1958)
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl (1957)
Goddess Of Love (1957)
Lazzarella (1957)
Te stò aspettanno (1957)
Marisa la civetta (1957)
Noi siamo le colonne (1956)
Presentimento (1956)
The Awakening (1956)
The Violent Patriot (1956)
Nero's Mistress (1956)
What a Woman! (1956)
The Bachelor (1955)
Girls of Today (1955)
Il coraggio (1955)
Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
A Hero of Our Times (1955)
Totò cerca pace (1954)
Mamma mia, che impressione! (1951)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1919-08-02
Deathday2002-06-23 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceTurin, Italy
SiblingsFederico Savina
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
Also Known AsHerbert Buckman, Charles Hanger, James Munshin
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