Ruggero Deodato

Ruggero Deodato was born on May 07, 1939 in Italy. Ruggero Deodato's big-screen debut came with Il Generale Della Rovere directed by Roberto Rossellini in 1959. Ruggero Deodato is known for Django directed by Sergio Corbucci, Franco Nero stars as Django and José Bódalo as Gen. Hugo Rodriguez. Ruggero Deodato has got 4 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Ruggero Deodato achieved is Hexploitation Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Ruggero Deodato plays is Deathcember which will be released on Nov 24, 2020.

Ruggero Deodato was born on May 7, 1939, in Potenza, Italy, and grew up outside Rome. One of his close friends at the time was Renzo Rossellini, the son of famed Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Knowing Ruggerio's love for the movies, Renzo persuaded him to work as a second unit director on some of his father's productions. From 1958-67 Deodato worked as a second unit director for several cult film directors such as Anthony M. Dawson (Antonio Margheriti), Riccardo Freda and Joseph Losey. Deodato's directorial debut was the action-fantasy Ursus, il terrore dei kirghisi (1964), replacing Margheriti who quit the production. Deodato's claim to fame was the spaghetti western Django (1966). His career took off in 1968 when he directed a number of films based on comic-book characters and musicals. It was while shooting one of these films that Deodato met, and later married, Silvia Dionisio.From 1971-75 Deodato worked in television, directing the series All'ultimo minuto (1971) as well as TV commercials, including ones for Esso Oil, Band-Aid and Fanta. Deodato returned to filmmaking with an erotic melodrama and a police thriller. At the same time his marriage fell apart. In 1977 Deodato directed the notorious Ultimo mondo cannibale (1977) and later Cannibal Holocaust (1980). Deodato traveled to New York City and directed the disturbing thriller La casa sperduta nel parco (1980), a semi-follow-up to Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left (1972). Deodato made La casa sperduta nel parco (1980) in just 19 days on a tiny budget. He then returned to directing action and horror flicks.Deodato lives in Rome with his current partner, Micaela Rocco, and still works in movies and occasional TV series. He is rumored to be planning a sequel to "Cannibal Holocaust".