, 27 January 1947) is an Italian

Italy

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 film director

Film director

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 and producer

Film producer

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Biography

The son of an Italian theatre producer, Ciro Ippolito started his career during childhood being an actor

Actor

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 in the film

Film

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 Class of Iron (Classe di ferro, 1957) by Turi Vasile.

In 1972 he participated in the film Augustine of Hippo (Agostino d'Ippona) of Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...

 with whom he worked as assistant director

Assistant director

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. In the middle of the 1960s he produced two theatre shows of Leopoldo Mastelloni

Leopoldo Mastelloni

Leopoldo Mastelloni is an Italian actor, film director and singer who was born in Naples. Films he has appeared in are listed below.-Biography:...

 (Le compagnie and Brechtomania). Still during the 1960s he participated in various films (I misteri di Napoli, La Badessa di Castro, Vieni amore mio, Flavia la monaca musulmana, La fine dell'innocenza) as actor or screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

.

His first work as film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 dates back to 1979 with the film Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla terra) made under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 Sam Cromwell. His main successes from that period are Lacrime napolitane (Berlin Film Festival, 1980) followed by Pronto... Lucia (1982) and Zampognaro innamorato (1983), both with Carmelo Zappulla.

Arrapaho, a film about the Amerindian tribe Arapaho

Arapaho

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, was an immediate success of Italian cinema. The film was made in a fortnight with a cost of 135 million Italian lira

Italian lira

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 and recovered five billion.

Ippolito continued his activity as film producer with La venexiana (1986) directed by Mauro Bolognini

Mauro Bolognini

Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....

 and his television

Television

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 activity with works like La romana by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director and author.He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spent his professional life there...

, Gli indifferenti, miniseries

Miniseries

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 by Bolognini, Disperatamente Giulia by Enrico Maria Salerno

Enrico Maria Salerno

Enrico Maria Salerno was an Italian theatre & film actor, also a film director. He was also the voice of Clint Eastwood in the Italian version of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy films, and the voice of Christ in The Gospel According to St...

, Donna d'onore by Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin

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, The Seventh Scroll

The Seventh Scroll

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(Il settimo papiro) by Kevin Condor and Il terzo segreto di Fatima by Alfredo Peyretti.

During the 1990s he was producer for Lina Wertmüller

Lina Wertmüller

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 in Io speriamo che me la cavo and Ninfa Plebea, and for Maurizio Nichetti

Maurizio Nichetti

Maurizio Nichetti is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director.-Film Director:* 1979 - Ratataplan* 1980 - Ho fatto splash* 1983 - Domani si balla!* 1986 - Il Bi e il Ba...

 in Palla di neve.

Ciro Ippolito's last film was Vaniglia e cioccolato, (2004), an adaptation

Film adaptation

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  of the homonym novel

Novel

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 of Sveva Casati Modigliani, which had a discrete success.

In 2010 Ippolito published a book entitled Un Napoletano a Hollywood.

Director

• Strangers, (1974) (under the pseudonym
  Pseudonym
  A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
  
   George Spelvin)
• Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla Terra), (1980) (under the pseudonym
  Pseudonym
  A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
  
   Sam Cromwell)
• Lacrime napoletane, (1981)
• Pronto... Lucia, (1982)
• Zampognaro innamorato, (1983)
• Arrapaho, (1984)
• Uccelli d'Italia, (1984)
• Vaniglia e cioccolato, (2004)

Scenarist

• L'Ultimo guappo, (1978)
• Napoli serenata calibro 9, (1978)
• Big Mamma (Il mammasantissima), (1978)
• Lo Scugnizzo, (1979)
• Napoli... la camorra sfida e la città risponde, (1979)
• I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia, (1979)
• Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla Terra), (1980) (executive productor under the pseudonym
  Pseudonym
  A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
  
   Sam Cromwell)
• Lacrime napulitane, (1981)
• Zampognaro innamorato, (1983)
• Arrapaho, (1984)
• Snowball (Palla di neve), (1995)
• The Seventh Scroll (Il settimo papiro), (1999) (Miniseries
  Miniseries
  A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
  
  )
• Vaniglia e cioccolato, (2004)

Producer

• Onore e guapperia, (1977)
• Napoli serenata calibro 9, (1978)
• Big Mamma (Il mammasantissima), (1978)
• Lo Scugnizzo, (1979)
• Napoli... la camorra sfida e la città risponde, (1979)
• I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia, (1979)
• Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla Terra), (1980) (executive productor under the pseudonym
  Pseudonym
  A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
  
   Sam Cromwell)
• Lacrime napulitane, (1981)
• Zampognaro innamorato, (1983)
• Uccelli d'Italia, (1984)
• Arrapaho, (1984)
• La venexiana, (1986)
• A Time of Indifference (Gli indifferenti), (1988) (Miniseries
  Miniseries
  A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
  
  )
• Disperatamente Giulia, (1989) (Miniseries
  Miniseries
  A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
  
  )
• Bride of Violence (Donna d'onore), (1991)
• Ciao, Professore! (Io speriamo che me la cavo), (1992)
• Palla di neve, (1995)
• The Nymph (Ninfa plebea), (1996)
• The Seventh Scroll (Il settimo papiro), (1999) (Miniseries
  Miniseries
  A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
  
  )
• Il terzo segreto di Fatima, (2001)
• Vaniglia e cioccolato, (2004)

Actor

• Class of Iron (Classe di ferro)), (1957)
• Augustine of Hippo (Agostino d'Ippona), (1972)
• La Badessa di Castro, (1974)
• Flavia (Flavia la monaca musulmana), (1974)
• Annie (La fine dell'innocenza), (1976)
• Napoli... la camorra sfida e la città risponde, (1979)
• Lacrime napulitane, (1979)
• Arrapaho, (1984)

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