Director Silvio Narizanno dies

Silvio Narizzano, a Canadian-born film and TV director with wide-varying credits but most widely known for his 1966 romantic comedy "Georgy Girl," starring Lynn Redgrave and James Mason, died This summer 26 working in london. He was 84.Occur swinging London, the sexually frank "Georgy Girl," that also starred Charlotte now Rampling and Alan Bates, came four Oscar nominations, including best actress (Redgrave), supporting actor (Mason) and cinematography. The film, which gained Narizzano a nomination in the Berlin Film Festival, was the director's second.Narizzano was created to Italian-People in america in Montreal. After graduation from Bishop's U. in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he became a member of Montreal's Mountain Playhouse, where he was affected by Pleasure Thompson, an innovator in British-language theater within the province.In the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., he was an assistant to Norman Jewison, Arthur Hiller and Ted Kotcheff. In early nineteen fifties he created instances of "Ford Television Theatre," "Tales of chanceInch and "Encounter" in the network.In 1956 Narizzano co-directed "Method of Theatre," a documentary short that profiled Tyrone Guthrie, a vital founding father of Canada's Stratford Theater Festival.After that he started pointing and creating mostly within the U.K., though he did helm an adaptation of Graham Greene's "The Fallen Idol" for CBS' "The DuPont Show from the Month." He directed the Brit telepic "Doomsday for Dyson," compiled by J.B. Priestley, and multiple instances of "ITV Television Playhouse" and "ITV Play each week.Inch He also directed several episodes all of "Saki," "Paris 1900" and "Zero One."In 1965 Narizzano made his feature helming debut with Hammer horror film "Die! Die! My Darling," notoriously Tallulah Bankhead's last movie.He adopted 1966's "Georgy Girl" using the 1968 romantic Western "Blue," starring Terence Stamp, and 1972 black comedy "Loot," an adaptation from the Joe Orton play. He came back to Canada for 1977's "Why Shoot the Teacher," the storyline of the teacher (Bud Cort) your one-room schoolhouse throughout the Depression.Exactly the same year he helmed a exclusive TV adaptation of "Return, Little Sheba," starring Laurence Olivier and Joanne Woodward.A 1980 adaptation of Paul Scott's novel "Remaining On," which starred Trevor Howard and Celia Manley and broadcast on PBS' "Great Performances" the year after, came critical huzzahs, but Narizzano's options that come with the time, "The Category of Miss MacMichael,""Bloodbath" and "Options," were substantially less effective in each and every respect.After helming the 1984 Agatha Christie adaptation "Your Body within the Library" for that BBC, Narizzano labored little for a long time his long term trouble with depression was amplified through the 1983 dying of his partner, the author Win Wells.He's made it by two siblings along with a brother. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com