Filippo Ottoni
{{short description|Italian film director and screenwriter (1938–2023)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1938|05|17}}
| birth_place = Cellere, Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2023|05|07|1938|05|17}}
| death_place = Rome, Italy
| nationality = Italian
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| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter
Dubbing director
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| education = London Film School
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Filippo Ottoni (17 May 1938 – 7 May 2023) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and dubbing director.
Biography
Born in Cellere on 17 May 1938, Ottoni graduated from London Film School and began directing documentaries for the BBC.{{cite book |last= |first= |date=1987|title=L'Année du cinéma|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1UHAQAAIAAJ&q=filippo%20ottoni%20London%20Film%20School|language=French|location= |publisher=Calmann-Lévy|page=240|isbn=9782702115831}} He began his career in cinema at the end of the 1960s as an assistant to Romolo Guerrieri and Mario Bava.{{cite book |last=Leutrart|first=Jean-Louis|date=1994|title=Mario Bava|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74J0mvPIcjoC&dq=filippo+ottoni+ecologia+del+delitto&pg=PA146|language=French|location= |publisher=Éditions du Céfal|page=146|isbn=9782871300427}} He made his directing debut with the 1971 film {{ill|La grande scrofa nera|it}}. He also directed Detective School Dropouts, which became popular in the United States. Additionally, he directed the dubbing of numerous films in foreign languages into Italian.{{cite book |last=Poppi|first=Roberto|date=2002|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. I Registi|trans-title= |url= |language=Italian|location=Rome|publisher=Gremese Editore|isbn=}} He served as president of the Associazione Italiana Dialoghisti Cinematografici Adattatori.
Ottoni died in Rome on 7 May 2023, ten days before his 85th birthday.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=8 May 2023|title=È morto Filippo Ottoni, storico direttore del doppiaggio: aveva 84 anni|trans-title= |url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/cinema-serie-tv/23_maggio_08/morto-filippo-ottoni-storico-direttore-doppiaggio-aveva-84-anni-f6e6cb38-ed87-11ed-ba41-36c5c16312cc.shtml|language=Italian|work=Corriere della Sera|location= |access-date=9 May 2023}}
Filmography
=Director and screenwriter=
- La grande scrofa nera (1971)
- {{ill|The Night Before Christmas (1978 film)|it|Questo sì che è amore|lt=The Night Before Christmas}} (1978)
- Detective School Dropouts (1986)
- {{ill|I giorni randagi|it}} (1988)
- {{ill|L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialle|it}} (1995)
=Screenwriter=
- A Bay of Blood (1971)
- Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993)
References
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Category:Italian film directors
Category:20th-century Italian screenwriters
Category:21st-century Italian screenwriters
Category:Italian voice directors