Ciro Ippolito


Ciro Ippolito is an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known to horror film fans for his 1980 opus , which he coproduced, wrote and directed.

Biography

Born in 1947 the son of an Italian theatre producer, Ciro Ippolito started his career during childhood being an actor in the film Class of Iron by Turi Vasile.
In 1972 he participated in the film Augustine of Hippo by Roberto Rossellini, with whom he worked as assistant director. In the mid-1960s, he produced two theatre shows of Leopoldo Mastelloni, and participated in various films as actor or screenwriter.
His first work as a film director came in 1980 with the film Alien 2: On Earth, made under the pseudonym Sam Cromwell. His main successes from that period are Lacrime napolitane, followed by Pronto...Lucia and Zampognaro innamorato, both with Carmelo Zappulla.
Arrapaho, a film about the Amerindian tribe Arapaho, was an immediate success. The film was made in a fortnight at a cost of 135 million Italian lira and recovered five billion.
Ippolito continued his activity as film producer with La venexiana directed by Mauro Bolognini and his television activity with works like La romana by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Gli indifferenti, miniseries by Bolognini, Disperatamente Giulia by Enrico Maria Salerno, Donna d'onore by Stuart Margolin, The Seventh Scroll by Kevin Condor and Il terzo segreto di Fatima by Alfredo Peyretti.
During the 1990s, he was producer for Lina Wertmüller in Io speriamo che me la cavo and Ninfa Plebea, and for Maurizio Nichetti in Palla di neve.
Ciro Ippolito's last film was Vaniglia e cioccolato / Vanilla and Chocolate, an adaptation of the homonym novel of Sveva Casati Modigliani, which had a discrete success.
In 2010 Ippolito published a book entitled Un Napoletano a Hollywood.

Filmography

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