Amasi Damiani

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Amasi Damiani (born September 26, 1937 in Livorno ) is an Italian film director , screenwriter and theater director .

Life

Damiani was an assistant in film as a teenager, for example with Giuliano Biagetti , and later with Sergio Corbucci . Mainly, however, he worked for the theater until he moved to Rome in 1960. From 1963 he appeared as a director and regularly made a series of films across all popular genres , which were almost always only seen in small numbers in regional cinemas or even remained unpublished. From the mid-1970s he therefore moved to the field of porn film , where he also shot under some pseudonyms with Ilona Staller , among others, until 1989 . Some of these films also managed to leave the porn theaters in soft versions. Damiani often wrote and edited his films himself.

In the 1990s Damiani returned to the theater and staged, for example, in 1995 with Dario Ballantini William Ratcliffe and Silvano - operas that were also released on film.

In the first decade of the new millennium, Damiani worked at the Teatro Goldoni in his hometown.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1966: Shameless Lips (Un brivido sulla pelle) (as A. van Dyke )
  • 1968: A ball for the bastard (Una forca per un bastardo)
  • 1971: Tara Pokì
  • 1979: A Tender Beast (Cicciolina amore mio) (as A. van Dyke )
  • 1985: Manhattan Gigolo (Manhattan gigolò) (as Aaron Humberstone )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 132
  2. ↑ http://www.filarmonicapisana.it/docenti_scilla_lenzi.html Genealogie {Dead Link | url = http: //www.filarmonicapisana.it/docenti_scilla_lenzi.html | date = 2018-08 | archivebot = 2018-08-25 04: 15:43 InternetArchiveBot}} (Link not available)
  3. ^ Teatro Goldoni di Livorno - Stagione Concertistica 2008/2009 ( Memento from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Damiani, Amasi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van Dyke, A. (pseudonym); Humberstone, Aaron (pseudonym); Mallery, Joseph (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director, screenwriter and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno , Italy