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- Birth nameMariano Caiano
- Mario Caiano was born in Rome, Italy, on February 13, 1933. After grade school he registered in college under the alias of Mariano Cajano. He alternated his university studies in philology with his apprenticeship in the film business, working as an assistant director and occasionally a scriptwriter for famous directors such as Sergio Grieco, Fernando Cerchio, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Vittorio Sala, Riccardo Freda, Edgar G. Ulmer and Camillo Mastrocinque. In 1962 Caiano made his film debut as a director with Ulysses Against Hercules (1962). From then on he made films in virtually every genre. He directed the very first Italian western, The Sign of the Coyote (1963), the interesting gothic horror flick Nightmare Castle (1965), which starred Barbara Steele, the psychological thriller Eye in the Labyrinth (1972) and the captivating detective thriller ...a tutte le auto della polizia... (1975).
Among other things, Caiano wrote the script for _Nelle pieghe della carne (1966)_, directed by Sergio Bergonzelli. He has been very active in Italian TV with work on such shows as Un'estate, un inverno (1971), Diagnosi (1975), Astuzia per astuzia (1979) and many others to this day.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Matt Patay (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- Son of producer Carlo Caiano.
- He used the pseudonym "Allen Grünewald" in reference to author Edgar Allan Poe and painter Mathias Grünwaldt.
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