Filippo Ottoni (17 May 1938 – 7 May 2023) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and dubbing director.

Biography

Born in

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on 17 May 1938, Ottoni graduated from

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and began directing documentaries for the

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. He began his career in cinema at the end of the 1960s as an assistant to

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and Mario Bava. He made his directing debut with the 1971 film '. He also directed ''

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'', which became popular in the United States. Additionally, he directed the dubbing of numerous films in foreign languages into Italian. He served as president of the Associazione Italiana Dialoghisti Cinematografici Adattatori. Ottoni died in

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on 7 May 2023, at the age of 84.

Filmography

Director and screenwriter

*''La grande scrofa nera'' (1971) *' (1978) *''Detective School Dropouts'' (1986) *' (1988) *' (1995)

Screenwriter

*'' A Bay of Blood'' (1971) *'' Jonah Who Lived in the Whale'' (1993)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ottoni, Filippo 1938 births 2023 deaths Italian film directors 20th-century Italian screenwriters 21st-century Italian screenwriters Italian voice directors Alumni of the London Film School People from the Province of Viterbo