Giovanni Grimaldi

Giovanni Grimaldi (14 November 1917 – 25 February 2001) was an Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director. He was sometimes credited as Gianni Grimaldi.

Born in Catania, Sicily, Grimaldi entered the cinema industry in 1952 as a screenwriter of a large number of often highly successful films, frequently working together with Bruno Corbucci. Since 1964 he became a prolific director of comedy films, often working with Lando Buzzanca and with the couple Franco and Ciccio.

Aside from films, Grimaldi was a journalist, a collaborator and even the director of several Italian humor magazines such as Trilussa, Candido and Marc'Aurelio. He was also a radio author, a playwright and a television director. He was the father of the director and screenwriter Aldo Grimaldi.

• Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone (1965)
• In a Colt's Shadow (1965)
• James Tont operazione U.N.O. (1965)
• Johnny Colt (1966)
• The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid (1967)
• I 2 deputati (1968)
• Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968)
• Un caso di coscienza (1970)
• The Beasts (1971)
• Il magnate (1973)
• La governante (1974)
• Il fidanzamento (1975)

• I, Hamlet (1952)
• Matrimonial Agency (1953)
• It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
• Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955)
• Allow Me, Daddy! (1956)
• Who Hesitates is Lost (1960)
• The Two Marshals (1961)
• Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita (1961)
• Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962)
• Gladiators 7 (1962)
• The Slave (1962)
• Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962)
• The Two Colonels (1962)
• Toto's First Night (1962)
• Toto vs. Maciste (1962)
• The Monk of Monza (1963)
• Toto vs. the Four (1963)
• Totò Diabolicus (1963)
• Toto and Cleopatra (1963)
• Sexy Toto (1963)
• I due mafiosi (1964)
• Tears on Your Face (1964)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964)
• Toto of Arabia (1965)
• Latin Lovers (1965)
• Mi vedrai tornare (1966)
• 4 Dollars of Revenge (1966)
• Nel sole (1967)
• Angeli senza paradiso (1970)
• Paths of War (1970)
• When Women Were Called Virgins (1972)
• The Inconsolable Widow Thanks All Those Who Consoled Her (1973)