FILM DIRECTOR

Joe D'Amato

1936 - 1999

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Aristide Massaccesi (15 December 1936 – 23 January 1999), known professionally as Joe D'Amato, was an Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter who worked in many genres (westerns, decamerotici, peplum, war films, swashbuckler, comedy, fantasy, postapocalyptic film, and erotic thriller) but is best known for his horror, erotic and adult films. D'Amato worked in the 1950s as electric and set photographer, in the 1960s as camera operator, and from 1969 onwards as cinematographer. Starting in 1972, he directed and co-directed around 200 films under numerous pseudonyms, regularly acting as cinematographer as well. Starting in the early 1980s, D'Amato produced many of his own and other directors' genre films through the companies he founded or co-founded, the best known being Filmirage. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joe D'Amato is the 244th most popular film director (down from 210th in 2019), the 1,481st most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,336th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Italian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joe D'Amato ranks 244 out of 2,041. Before him are Otto Preminger, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ruggero Deodato, Franklin J. Schaffner, Nicholas Ray, and Thea von Harbou. After him are Bertrand Tavernier, James Foley, Patrice Chéreau, Chris Marker, Paolo Sorrentino, and Nagisa Oshima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Joe D'Amato ranks 95. Before him are Eric Walter Elst, Héctor Elizondo, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and Koji Sasaki. After him are Jill Ireland, Georgina Spelvin, Frank Stella, Roy Emerson, Leonel Sánchez, and Julio María Sanguinetti. Among people deceased in 1999, Joe D'Amato ranks 48. Before him are Adolfo Bioy Casares, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Elliot Richardson, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Nathalie Sarraute, and Benjamin Bloom. After him are Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Grover Washington Jr., Lajos Tichy, Bernard Buffet, André Martinet, and Dirk Bogarde.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Joe D'Amato ranks 1,481 out of 5,161. Before him are Andrea Alciato (1492), Otto, Count of Savoy (1023), Paolo Giovio (1483), Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1538), Bernardo Pasquini (1637), and Leonardo Leo (1694). After him are Giovanni il Popolano (1467), Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (1328), Clodia Pulchra (-94), Giovanni Verga (1840), Franco Alfano (1875), and Luigi Facta (1861).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Joe D'Amato ranks 22. Before him are Dino Risi (1916), Lina Wertmüller (1928), Francesco Rosi (1922), Liliana Cavani (1933), Marco Ferreri (1928), and Ruggero Deodato (1939). After him are Paolo Sorrentino (1970), Lucio Fulci (1927), Nanni Moretti (1953), Mario Bava (1914), Damiano Damiani (1922), and Marco Bellocchio (1939).

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