- In 2013, after a 20-year hiatus, he directed the film Il Notturno di Chopin.
- In 2017 he published I film che non vedrete mai ('The films you will never see'), a compilation based on Lado's own unproduced screenplays.
- He was the founder of the Edizioni Angera Films brand, with which he published titles also signing himself as George B. Lewis.
- In 1979 he directed "The Humanoid", a science fiction action between "Star Wars" and "Frankenstein" which became a cult of Italian science fiction cinema.
- Aldo Lado accepted in 2017 the invitation of the FIPILI Horror Festival to attend the homage that the Tuscan event paid to him.
- Ennio Morricone composed the soundtracks of many of his works.
- At the end of the 1970s Aldo Lado 's production also became less frequent and the director worked for a long time in television and production.
- He was an eclectic artist and author, who loved the small and big screen.
- Lado published his first short story in 2016, in the anthology "Nuovi delitti di lago".
- After writing the story for the 1971 giallo The Designated Victim, he made his directorial debut later that year with Short Night of Glass Dolls. Lado took the job after two previous directors, Maurizio Lucidi and Antonio Margheriti, fell through. The film was a success, and he followed it with another giallo, Who Saw Her Die?.
- Lado came up through the film industry as an assistant director, notably to Bernardo Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970).
- Under the pseudonym of George B. Lewis he published the thriller "Il Mastino" (2018), winner of the Critics' Award at the 2019 Cattolica international literary prize and the first prize for published novel at the Giovanni Bertacchi di Sondrio International Prize in 2020.
- Lado's films in the 70's were in a variety of genres, including drama ("Woman Buried Alive" - the movie launched a short-living revival of "feuilleton films" -), "The Cousin", romance ("La cosa buffa"), and horror ("Last Stop on the Night Train" - Based on the plots of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring and Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left).
- In 2020, the French publisher Le Chat qui fume re-released his first films on blu-ray together with the book "Conversation avec Aldo Lado" by Laure Charcossey, retracing his professional life.
- In 1975 Lado directed "The Last Train of the Night", which fits into the genre of 'rape and revenge movies' ' and is considered one of the crudest and most violent films ever made in Italy.
- Aldo Lado was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter and author.
- In 1979, he directed the Star Wars cash-in "The Humanoid", for which he was credited under the George Lucas-esque pseudonym "George B. Lewis".
- Several of his films are considered cult classics.
- He was known internationally for his contributions to the giallo genre during the 1970s, through his films Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Who Saw Her Die? (1972).
- At an advanced age, Aldo Lado dedicated himself to writing. His story "The giant and the little girl", dedicated to the singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, is contained in the anthology "Nuovi delitti di lago" (Morellini Editore) released in 2016 and marks his debut in fiction.
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