RIP Egidio Spugnini

 

From Urbania to the Oscars. Farewell to the great set designer Egidio Spugnini

He was 79 years old. Collaborations with Scola and Petri. His scenes of "Investigation of a citizen above suspicion"

Rai News

By Redazione

12/27/2024

 

The set designer Egidio Spugnini, aka Egidio da Casteldurante, has died. He was 79 years old. Born in Urbania in 1945, his collaborations include the one with Elio Petri in "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion", a film that in 1971 won the Oscar for best foreign film.

Spugnini had begun his career with Giuliano Montaldo for "L'Agnese va a morire", then working on "Io ho paura" by Damiano Damiani and "La terrazza" by Ettore Scola. He also has numerous collaborations with TV, from dramas to variety. In 2017 he was awarded the honor of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. His bond with the Marche region is strong, and in particular with his Urbania. Last March he told himself in an episode of the Tgr Marche column "Marchigiani"

SPUGNINI, Egidio (Egidio Spugnini Da Castelduranti)

Born: 11/16/1945, Urbania, Pesaro e Urbino, Italy

Died: 12/27/2024, Urbania, Pesaro e Urbino, Italy

 

Egidio Spugnini’s westerns – production designer, set dresser:

Death Played the Flute – 1972 [production designer]

Brothers Blue – 1973 [set dresser]