Tullio Pinelli

Biography

Tullio Pinelli (24 June 1908 – 7 March 2009) was an Italian screenwriter best known for his work on the Federico Fellini classics I Vitelloni, La Strada, La Dolce Vita and 8½. Born in Turin, he began his career as a civil lawyer but spent his free time working in the theatre as a playwright. He met Fellini in a Rome kiosk in 1946 while they were reading opposite pages of the same newspaper. Pinelli died at the age of 100 on 7 March 2009 in Rome.