Trivia

Had a penchant for writing about crime and criminals.

Educated at USC.

Directed two actors in Oscar nominated performances: Robert Duvall and Michael O'Keefe, both for The Great Santini (1979).

Carlino enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 and served for four years during the Korean War. After his discharge, he used the G.I. Bill to enroll at the University of Southern California to study drama, graduating in 1958. He then earned his master's degree in theater from the school two years later.

The son of an immigrant Sicilian tailor and a homemaker.

One of the one-act plays he wrote while attending USC, The Brick and the Rose, was produced by the American National Theatre and Academy in 1957. It went on to become the first presentation of the CBS Television Workshop, an anthology series, in 1960.

He had success with two plays off-Broadway, the Hollywood-set Telemachus Clay: A Collage of Voices and Doubletalk, starring Franchot Tone and Ruth White.

Two of his one-acts, Snowangel and Epiphany, were performed off-Broadway in 1963 as part of a double bill that was titled Cages and starred Shelley Winters and Jack Warden which ran 176 performances at the New York Playhouse.

His full-length drama The Exercise, starring Anne Jackson, ran on Broadway in 1968.

Taught at Columbia University after graduating from USC.

Was instrumental in the launch of the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts where directed several original productions.

Attended El Camino College before being drafted to serve in the US Air Force during the Korean War.