Ettore Maria Fizzarotti
Ettore Maria Fizzarotti | |
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Born | |
Died | 10 September 1985 Rome, Italy | (aged 69)
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1946-1972 |
Ettore Maria Fizzarotti (1916–1985) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Naples, the son of the director Armando, he debuted as assistant director in the films of his father, and later collaborated with, among others, Vittorio Cottafavi and Raffaello Matarazzo.[1] He made his directorial debut in 1964, with , a musicarello with Gianni Morandi which was panned by critics but which got a large commercial success.[1] Fizzarotti then directed several films of the same genre, starring some of the most important Italian singers of the time.[1][2] His career also include the Spaghetti Western I'll Sell My Skin Dearly and Sgarro alla camorra, the first sceneggiata film, which marked the film debut of Mario Merola.[1][3]
Selected filmography[]
- Naples Is Always Naples (1954)
- (1964)
- Tears on Your Face (1964)
- Se non avessi più te (1965)
- Non son degno di te (1965)
- Perdono (1966)
- (1966)
- Mi vedrai tornare (1966)
- (1967)
- Soldati e capelloni (1967)
- Vendo cara la pelle (1968)
- Chimera (1968)
- Il suo nome è Donna Rosa (1969)
- Mezzanotte d'amore (1970)
- Angeli senza paradiso (1970)
- (1971)
- Sgarro alla camorra (1973)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. p. 180. ISBN 8884401712.
- ^ Renato Venturelli, Nessuno ci può giudicare: il lungo viaggio del cinema musicale italiano, Fahrenheit 451, 1998. ISBN 8886095309.
- ^ Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN 8820029197.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1916 births
- 1985 deaths
- Italian film directors
- Film people from Naples
- 20th-century Italian screenwriters
- Italian male screenwriters
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- Italian film director stubs