Luca Damiano
{{short description|Italian film director (born 1946)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| birth_name = Franco Lo Cascio
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|08|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rome
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| nationality = Italian
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| occupation = Film director
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| notable_works = Ah sì? E io lo dico a Zzzzorro!
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Luca Damiano (born Franco Lo Cascio; 29 August 1946) is an Italian film director.
Born in Rome, Lo Cascio started his career as the assistant director of Fernando Di Leo in almost all the films he directed between 1967 and 1974.{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|publisher=Mondadori|year=2007|isbn=978-8804572770|page=639}}{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712|pages=244–245}} In 1974, he made his directorial debut with the parody film Piedino il questurino starring Franco Franchi.
After having directed a number of comedies and the supernatural thriller Un urlo dalle tenebre in 1976, Lo Cascio withdrew from directing to focus on his distribution company "Patrizia Cinematografica" he founded together with Diego Spadaro. In 1984, he adopted his stage name Luca Damiano and directed and produced numerous pornographic films.
Awards and nominations
- 2000 FICEB Ninfa Award winner – Lifetime Achievement Award{{cite web|url=http://www.ficeb.com/english/premiados_2000.htm |title=FICEB 2000 Awards |date=2007-06-09 |accessdate=2014-05-05 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609031438/http://www.ficeb.com/english/premiados_2000.htm |archivedate=9 June 2007 }}
- 2001 FICEB Ninfa Award winner – Special Jury Award{{cite web|url=http://www.ficeb.com/english/premiados_2001.htm |title=2001 FICEB Award Nominees & Winners |accessdate=2014-12-21 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609031433/http://www.ficeb.com/english/premiados_2001.htm |archivedate=9 June 2007 }}
Partial filmography
- Piedino il questurino (1974)
- Un urlo dalle tenebre (1975)
- Mark of Zorro (1975)
- Sesso allo specchio (1981)
- Erotic Adventures of Red Riding Hood (1986)
- La Signora dell'Oriente Express (1989)
- Il Marchese de Sade – Oltre ogni perversione (1994)
- Ladri gentiluomini – Donne, gioielli... e culi belli (1994)
- The Erotic Adventures of Marco Polo (1994)
- The Erotic Adventures of Aladdin X (1994)
- Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia (1995)
- Snow White & 7 Dwarfs (1995)
- War Games (1996)
- Napoleon (1996)
- Orient Express (1996)
- The Princess, the Bodyguard and the Stripper (1996)
- C'era una volta il... bordello (1997)
- Rock Erotic Picture Show (1997)
- Don Juan (1998)
- Paolina Borghese ninfomane imperiale (1998)
- Snow White... Ten Years Later (1999)
- Penocchio (2002)
References
External links
- {{IMDb name|0516220|Franco Lo Cascio}}
- {{iafd name|id=ldamiano|gender=director|name=Luca Damiano}}
- [http://www.adultfilmdatabase.com/director.cfm?directorid=81 Director Luca Damiano at the Adult Film Database]
- [http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?r=8634 Luca Damiano at mymovies.it]
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Category:Italian pornographic film directors
Category:Italian pornographic film producers
Category:Film directors from Rome
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