Biography
Piero Pierotti was an Italian film director and screenwriter active from the 1950s to the late 1960s. Born in Pisa, Tuscany, he began his career as a screenwriter, contributing to various Italian films. Pierotti made his directorial debut with The Last of the Vikings (1961), a historical adventure film. He continued to explore adventure and historical themes with films like Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963) and The Adventurer of Tortuga (1965). Pierotti's work is characterized by its dynamic ...
Complete Filmography

La grande avventura di Scaramouche
1972
Writer, Director
At the beginning Scaramouche saves a woman from some nasty swordsmen who attempt to murder her , she is really a powerful countesss and Queen's friend...

Robin Hood, l'invincibile arciere
1970
Screenplay
Robin Hood tries to help a crossed gentleman, in love with Isabel, because the girl's uncle has decided to marry her with another.

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis
1969
Story, Writer
Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain.

Heads or Tails
1969
Director, Story, Screenplay
Shanda is charged with the murder of the banker, Burton and to save her from being lynched, the sheriff sends her off to Phoenix. During the trip the ...

Son of Black Eagle
1968
Screenplay

Assault on the State Treasure
1967
Director, Screenplay, Story
Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world ar...

Zorro il ribelle
1966
Writer, Director
California, a province of the Spanish colony Mexico. Don Ramiro, the secretary of the tyrannical governor, is charged with assuring his son, don Luis,...

SuperSeven Calling Cairo
1965
Screenplay
Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.

Giant of the Evil Island
1965
Writer, Director
A Spanish sea captain is sent to clean out Evil Island, from where pirate bands are raiding Spanish shipping under the leadership of a pirate named Mo...

Lost Treasure of the Incas
1964
Director, Screenplay
A cowboy goes to help out his friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. The two find themselves in the rugged and mysterious Pallidi Mountains, ...

Hercules Against Rome
1964
Director, Screenplay
Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in ...

The Avenger of Venice
1964
Director, Screenplay
Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tu...

War of the Zombies
1964
Screenplay
A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!

Hercules and the Pirates
1964
Writer
aka Hercules and the Black Pirates. Brave and noble Samson fights pirates as a soldier in the royal army. He wants to marry lovely fair maiden Rosita,...

The Tyrant of Castile
1963
Writer
it's a fast moving blood and thunder tale well rendered and at least rooted in fact, and has a good feel for the period. It's interesting to have a lo...

Hercules and the Masked Rider
1963
Director, Screenplay
In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the famil...
Napoleone a Firenze
1963
Director, Writer

A Queen for Caesar
1962
Director
Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.

Marco Polo
1962
Director, Writer
Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

The Witch's Curse
1962
Writer
Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

Planets Around Us
1962
Writer
An alien race sends cyborgs — made to look like the son of a famous scientist, whom they killed when he landed on their planet — to Earth to help pave...

Erik the Conqueror
1961
Story, Screenplay
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nea...

Knight of 100 Faces
1960
Screenplay
Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.

Cavalcata selvaggia
1960
Writer, Director

The Pirate and the Slave Girl
1959
Director, Story, Screenplay
When a ship carrying the daughter of Rhodes' governor and secret documents is captured by Mediterranean pirate Dragut, the governor tasks captain Dieg...

The Black Archer
1959
Screenplay, Story, Director
A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
1958
Screenplay, Story
Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German pol...

The Love Specialist
1957
Co-Writer
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but thing...

La trovatella di Pompei
1957
First Assistant Director
Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents. She is in love with Giorgio, a boy fr...

Porta un bacione a Firenze
1955
Story
After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets A...

Beautiful But Dangerous
1955
Screenplay, Second Unit Director
Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his ...

The Intruder
1955
Screenplay
A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters he...

The White Angel
1955
Story
In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for h...

Guai ai vinti
1954
Screenplay
A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman d...

Giuseppe Verdi
1953
Screenplay
The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of hi...

The Young Caruso
1951
First Assistant Director
This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.