FILM DIRECTOR

Damiano Damiani

1922 - 2013

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Damiano Damiani (23 July 1922 – 7 March 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. Poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to him as "a bitter moralist hungry for old purity", while film critic Paolo Mereghetti said that his style made him "the most American of Italian directors". In 1946 Damiani became part of the so-called Group of Venice with Fernando Carcupino, Hugo Pratt and Dino Battaglia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Damiano Damiani is the 281st most popular film director (down from 267th in 2019), the 1,605th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,546th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Italian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Damiano Damiani ranks 281 out of 2,041. Before him are Mario Bava, Bigas Luna, Philippe de Broca, Karel Zeman, Ousmane Sembène, and Andrew Davis. After him are Mikhail Kalatozov, Gabriel Axel, Wes Anderson, Elem Klimov, George Stevens, and Tsui Hark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Damiano Damiani ranks 93. Before him are Karl-Otto Apel, Carl Reiner, Dana Zátopková, Annemarie Schimmel, Veronica Lake, and Árpád Göncz. After him are Alistair MacLean, Carlos Andrés Pérez, Paul Marcinkus, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, George Blake, and Kim Hunter. Among people deceased in 2013, Damiano Damiani ranks 79. Before him are Rossana Podestà, Roger Ebert, Henri Dutilleux, Conrad Bain, Sara Montiel, and Bigas Luna. After him are László Csatáry, Sung Jae-gi, Ovadia Yosef, Robert N. Bellah, Chris Kyle, and Seamus Heaney.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Damiano Damiani ranks 1,605 out of 5,161. Before him are Lea Massari (1933), Claudio Magris (1939), Marino Faliero (1274), Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1533), Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1629), and Francesco Filippini (1853). After him are Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1844), Bernardo Strozzi (1581), Cesare Ripa (1555), Rothari (606), Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (-181), and Vito Cascio Ferro (1862).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Damiano Damiani ranks 27. Before him are Ruggero Deodato (1939), Joe D'Amato (1936), Paolo Sorrentino (1970), Lucio Fulci (1927), Nanni Moretti (1953), and Mario Bava (1914). After him are Marco Bellocchio (1939), Gillo Pontecorvo (1919), Mario Monicelli (1915), Luigi Comencini (1916), Ermanno Olmi (1931), and Giuseppe De Santis (1917).

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