Gianni Bisiach (7 May 1927 – 20 November 2022) was an Italian journalist, television and radio writer, presenter, essayist, documentarist, and screenwriter.
Gianni Bisiach | |
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Born | |
Died | 20 November 2022 Rome, Italy | (aged 95)
Occupation | Writer |
Born in Gorizia, after getting his degree in Medicine Bisiach enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In the mid-1950s he entered RAI as a collaborator of the news program TV 7. In the late 1970s he started working on radio, where he created the long-standing Radio Uno talk show Radio anch'io, which ran between 1978 and 1992 and had a TV spin-off, also hosted by Bisiach.[1][2]
In his variegated career Bisiach also directed the documentary film I due Kennedy and a segment of the anthology film I misteri di Roma, and collaborated on some screenplays.[1][2] He also wrote several books, notably the interview book Pertini racconta in collaboration with Sandro Pertini.[2]
Bisiach died in Rome on 20 November 2022, at the age of 95.[3]