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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe D'Amato has received more than 720,746 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joe D'Amato is the 210th most popular film director (up from 255th in 2019), the 1,336th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,470th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Italian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joe D'Amato ranks 210 out of 2,041. Before him are Amos Gitai, Douglas Sirk, Claude Lanzmann, Dariush Mehrjui, Danny Boyle, and Lina Wertmüller. After him are Thea von Harbou, Alan J. Pakula, Mahesh Bhatt, Alfonso Cuarón, Robert Wise, and Liliana Cavani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Joe D'Amato ranks 72. Before him are François Pinault, Gianni Vattimo, Don Cherry, Hideki Shirakawa, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Yury Luzhkov. After him are Iolanda Balaș, Bruce Dern, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Duncan Edwards, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, and Margaret Hamilton. Among people deceased in 1999, Joe D'Amato ranks 42. Before him are Gerhard Herzberg, John F. Kennedy Jr., Bernard Buffet, Amintore Fanfani, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Sarah Knauss. After him are Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Hermine Braunsteiner, Henri, Count of Paris, George C. Scott, Fabrizio De André, and Edward Dmytryk.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Joe D'Amato ranks 1,336 out of 5,161. Before him are Lina Wertmüller (1928), Giovanni Verga (1840), Louis V, Duke of Bavaria (1315), Beppe Grillo (1948), Enrico Berlinguer (1922), and Gerolamo Emiliani (1486). After him are Giorgio Parisi (1948), Elsa Martinelli (1935), Maurus Servius Honoratus (363), Paula of Rome (347), Fede Galizia (1578), and Piero Ferrari (1945).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Joe D'Amato ranks 21. Before him are Sergio Corbucci (1926), Gillo Pontecorvo (1919), Francesco Rosi (1922), Dino Risi (1916), Marco Bellocchio (1939), and Lina Wertmüller (1928). After him are Liliana Cavani (1933), Nanni Moretti (1953), Mario Monicelli (1915), Mario Bava (1914), Marco Ferreri (1928), and Ruggero Deodato (1939).

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Filmography

Anthropophagous
Director
Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.
Aug 7o 19805.393 / 10
Beyond the Darkness
Director
A disturbed young embalmer digs the grave of his recently deceased girlfriend and brings her body to his family villa with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
Nov 15o 19796.443 / 10
Tarzan-X: Shame of Jane
Director
When Jane discovers the Ape man, she sets the course for an erotic adventure that will take the couple from the jungle back to civilization.
Jun 16o 19955.1 / 10