CINEMATOGRAPHER · BORN 1917 · DIED 1976

Massimo Dallamano

Born

17 April 1917

Died

4 November 1976

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1. #001

   Massimo Dallamano was also active in Spanish cinema. He shot Francisco Rovira Beleta's Los Tarantos, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards.

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2. #002

   In 1967 he made his debut as a narrative film director with another Spaghetti Western, "Bandidos". He went on to direct a dozen more films, among them poliziotteschi, giallo, horror and erotic films.

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3. #003

   Dallamano began work in the 1940s as a cameraman on documentaries and commercials, and after the war became a cinematographer specializing in adventure films.

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4. #004

   Dallamano died in a car accident at the age of 59, a few months after the premiere of "Colt 38 Special Squad" (1976). His next film was to have been "Red Rings of Fear", directed by Alberto Negrin. Dallamano retained his screenwriting credit posthumously.

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5. #005

   He is known for his work on Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy and for directing many giallo and poliziotteschi films in the 1970s.

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6. #006

   His best-known work as a cinematographer was on Sergio Leone's landmark Spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). Christopher Frayling highlights Dallamano's contributions to these films' distinctive visual style, including the use of widescreen compositions and Renaissance-style lighting effects in close-ups.

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7. #007

   Throughout his career, Dallamano was sometimes credited under the pseudonyms Max Dillman (also spelled Dillmann) and Jack Dalmas.

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8. #008

   In 1969 he shot "Venus in Fur", a heavily censored film that was released in Italy only in 1973 under the title "Venere nuda" and eventually re-released, heavily cut, as "Le malizie di Venere".

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9. #009

   Massimo Dallamano was an Italian cinematographer, director and screenwriter.

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10. #010

    In 1959 he co-directed the travel documentary Tierra mágica, which was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.

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