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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 673,157 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Joe D'Amato is the 255th most popular film director (up from 257th in 2019), the 1,474th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,481st in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

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  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joe D'Amato ranks 255 out of 1,581. Before him are Martin Campbell, Edward Dmytryk, Karel Zeman, Edwin S. Porter, Hideaki Anno, and Robert Wiene. After him are Márta Mészáros, Gillo Pontecorvo, Jean Epstein, Leonid Gaidai, Tex Avery, and Zack Snyder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Joe D'Amato ranks 88. Before him are Ljubiša Samardžić, Paul L. Smith, Don DeLillo, Frank Stella, David Yonggi Cho, and Kenneth G. Wilson. After him are Alan Alda, Raymond Poulidor, Nino Castelnuovo, Wilfried Martens, Hideki Shirakawa, and Wolf Biermann. Among people deceased in 1999, Joe D'Amato ranks 50. Before him are Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, George C. Scott, John F. Kennedy Jr., Edward Dmytryk, and Fabrizio De André. After him are Bernard Buffet, Rafael Alberti, Amintore Fanfani, João Figueiredo, André Martinet, and Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Joe D'Amato ranks 1,474 out of 4,668. Before him are Alvise Cadamosto (1432), Benedict the Moor (1526), Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1412), John Parricida (1290), Enzo Bearzot (1927), and Marisa Pavan (1932). After him are Philip I, Prince of Taranto (1278), Vincenzo Lancia (1881), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727), Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (1566), Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1898), and Andrew, Duke of Calabria (1327).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Joe D'Amato ranks 24. Before him are Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), Liliana Cavani (1933), Mario Bava (1914), Marco Ferreri (1928), Lucio Fulci (1927), and Mario Monicelli (1915). After him are Gillo Pontecorvo (1919), Damiano Damiani (1922), Ruggero Deodato (1939), Ermanno Olmi (1931), Giuseppe De Santis (1917), and Paolo Sorrentino (1970).

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Filmography

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