Biography
Tullio Pinelli was an Italian screenwriter and playwright. Born in Turin, he trained as a lawyer and worked in the theatre before turning to film in the mid-1940s. He met Federico Fellini in 1946 and began a long collaboration that produced many of the director’s best-known films.
Pinelli contributed to the screenplays of I Vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½ (1963), among others. He also wrote for directors including Alberto Lattuada, Pietro Germi and Mario Monicelli. From 1988 he was married to the actress Madeleine Lebeau.
