
Riz Ortolani
Sound
March 25, 1926
Died January 23, 2014 (87 years old)
Pesaro, Marche, Italy
8
Acting Credits
Biography
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 ...
Known For

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self

Linee d'ombra
Self

Erinnerungen an Lucio Fulci
Self

The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti
Self

In the Jungle - The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust
Himself

Music of Always

The Godfathers of Mondo
Filmography

Erinnerungen an Lucio Fulci
2019
as Self

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
as Self
5.2

The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti
2012
as Self

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
as Self
6

Linee d'ombra
2007
as Self

The Godfathers of Mondo
2003
6.9

In the Jungle - The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust
2003
as Himself

Music of Always
1958
7.1