Capuano, who had attended the Academy of the Italian Air Force, was the commanding pilot in World War II and then worked as a sports journalist , only came to film at the age of 43. As a screenwriter and director of entertaining films of all kinds, initially often Neapolitan sentimental dramas and comedies , he gained a good reputation as a technically solid craftsman and director of genre films during the 1950s . Towards the end of the decade he began a long series of adventure films and concluded his career with an agent film and two spaghetti westerns . In 1971 his name was mentioned again in a mainly Spanish Zorro version for tax reasons . His pseudonym was Lewis King .
Filmography (selection)
1947: Legge di sangue
1948: Vertigine d'amore
1950: Rondini in volo
1950: La strada finisce sul fiume
1951: Gli innocenti pagano
1951: Gli amanti di Ravello
1952: Ergastolo
1953: Condannatelo!
1954: Cuore di mamma
1954: Ballata tragica
1955: Under the lighthouse of love (La rossa)
1956: Maruzzella
1956: The cavaliers of the black sword (Il cavaliere della spada nera)
