FILM DIRECTOR

Ruggero Deodato

1939 - 2022

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Ruggero Deodato (Italian pronunciation: [rudˈdʒɛːro de.oˈda.to]; 7 May 1939 – 29 December 2022) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. His career spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco, and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known for directing violent and gory horror films with strong elements of realism. His most notable film is Cannibal Holocaust, considered one of the most controversial and brutal in the history of cinema, which was seized, banned or heavily censored in many countries, and which contained special effects so realistic that they led to Deodato being arrested on suspicion of murder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruggero Deodato has received more than 816,643 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ruggero Deodato is the 235th most popular film director (up from 289th in 2019), the 1,428th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,594th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Italian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ruggero Deodato ranks 235 out of 2,041. Before him are Marco Ferreri, Arthur Penn, Věra Chytilová, Gus Van Sant, Edwin S. Porter, and Gabriel Axel. After him are Terence Young, Jacques Becker, Béla Tarr, Jafar Panahi, Michael Moore, and James Ivory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ruggero Deodato ranks 83. Before him are Ratko Janev, Milva, Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Yael Dayan, Sidney Altman, and Warda Al-Jazairia. After him are Silvana Armenulić, Ion Țiriac, Fritjof Capra, Lucia Popp, Peter Bogdanovich, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Among people deceased in 2022, Ruggero Deodato ranks 75. Before him are Klaus Schulze, Boris Pahor, Cüneyt Arkın, Javier Marías, Sidney Altman, and Edward C. Prescott. After him are Frank Drake, David Warner, Wim Jansen, Eric Walter Elst, Leonel Sánchez, and Luis Echeverría.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ruggero Deodato ranks 1,428 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni Angelo Becciu (1948), Salvatore Schillaci (1964), Louis I of Etruria (1773), Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (-220), Lella Lombardi (1941), and Alesso Baldovinetti (1425). After him are Giovanni il Popolano (1467), Mattia Preti (1613), Pietro II Orseolo (961), Alberic II of Spoleto (911), Vito Genovese (1897), and Coluccio Salutati (1331).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Ruggero Deodato ranks 27. Before him are Joe D'Amato (1936), Liliana Cavani (1933), Nanni Moretti (1953), Mario Monicelli (1915), Mario Bava (1914), and Marco Ferreri (1928). After him are Lucio Fulci (1927), Damiano Damiani (1922), Ermanno Olmi (1931), Valerio Zurlini (1926), Giuseppe De Santis (1917), and Paolo Sorrentino (1970).

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Filmography

Cannibal Holocaust
Director
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Feb 7th 19806.3 / 10
Django
Director
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.
Apr 6th 19667.2 / 10
House on the Edge of the Park
Director
A posh couple experience car trouble on their way to a villa party and stop into a local mechanic's shop for assistance, unaware of his shady background. After he and his mentally challenged assistant fix the car, the couple invite them to the party to return the favor, leading to an evening of mayhem.
Nov 6th 19805.9 / 10