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- Mario Morra was born in 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an editor and writer, known for Cinema Paradiso (1988), The Battle of Algiers (1966) and Savage Man Savage Beast (1975). He died on October 11, 2024 in Castelnuovo di Porto, Lazio, Italy.
- He gradually established himself as one of the most representative of his profession, very active in art films as well as in less ambitious works.
- Mario Morra was an Italian film editor, director and screenwriter.
- Morra began working as an assistant editor in the early 1960s, and made his debut as film editor in 1964.
- In the 1970s and 1980s, Morra was also director or writer of several successful documentaries and Mondo films, often in collaboration with Antonio Climati like Turbo Time a documentary about the world of car and motorcycle racing.
- In 1990 he was nominated to BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso.
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