ROME: Italian film director and master of comedy Mario Monicelli, 95, committed suicide Monday by throwing himself out of a hospital window, the ANSA news agency reported, citing hospital sources.

Oscar-nommed Italo scribe-helmer Mario Monicelli died Nov. 29 after falling from his fifth-story hospital window in Rome. The 95-year-old had been admitted with pancreatic problems, according to the ...