Luciano Salce (25 September 1922, in Rome – 17 December 1989, in Rome) was an Italian film director, actor and lyricist.
His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.As a writer of pop music, he used the pseudonym Pilantra.
During World War II, he was a prisoner in Germany.