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Joe D'Amato
Directing
15 Dec 1936
† 23 Jan 1999
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography
Joe D'Amato, (birth name: Aristide Massaccesi) (December 15, 1936 in Rome - January 23, 1999 in Rome) was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well. While D'Amato contributed to many different genres (such as the spaghetti western, the war movie, the swashbuckler, the peplum, and the fantasy film), the majority of his films are exploitation-themed pornography, both soft-...
Also Known As
Aristide Massaccesi, Kevin Mancuso, Michael Di Caprio, Raf de Palma, Alexandre Borsky


















