Joe D'Amato

Directing · Camera · Acting · Production · Writing · Editing

Born December 15, 1936, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Joe D'Amato, (birth name: Aristide Massaccesi) (December 15, 1936 in Rome - January 23, 1999 in Rome) was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well. While D'Amato contributed to many different genres (such as the spaghetti western, the war movie, the swashbuckler, the peplum, and the fantasy film), the majority of his films are exploitation-themed pornography, both soft- and hardcore. He is perhaps most well known for his horror film efforts, many of which went on to become cult movies (such as Anthropophagous and Beyond the Darkness), and for his hastily-produced remakes of popular American films (such as the Ator series, based upon the Conan the Barbarian films), some of which were featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000. The poor production value of many of his films, combined with his expressed lack of concern for the production quality of his films as long as they proved profitable, have led him to be labeled as "The Evil Ed Wood," despite D'Amato's apparently amiable nature. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe D'Amato, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

2016FantastiCozzi — (voice) (archive footage)
2001Porno Holocaust - Die Filme des Joe D'Amato — (archive footage)
1999Arrogance: No Limits — Director
1999Dreams of a Country Girl — Director, Director of Photography
1999Experiences — Director of Photography, Producer
1999Experiences 2 — Director
1999Harem 2000 — Director
1999La Figlia Del Padrino — Director
1999Lussuria — Director of Photography
1999Outlaws 2 — Director
1999Romanza — Director
1999Sexy Pirates — Director, Director of Photography
1999Sono positivo — Regista hardcore
1998Blow Up — Director of Photography
1998Calamity Jane — Director of Photography
1998Calamity Jane 2 — Director
1998Elixir — Director
1998Eternal Desire — Director, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
1998Il laureato — Director
1998Lady in the Iron Mask — Director of Photography
1998Magic Eros — Producer
1998Off Limits — Director of Photography
1998Outlaws — Director of Photography
1998Phantom — Director of Photography
1998Prague Exposed — Director
1998Prima e dopo la cura — Director, Producer
1998Raiders — Director of Photography
1998Red Orchid — Director, Writer
1998Sahara — Director, Director of Photography
1998Selen, The Girl of the Treasure Island — Director, Director of Photography
1998Sex Penitentiary — Director of Photography
1998Showgirl — Director, Director of Photography
1998The Devil's Lair — Director of Photography
1998The Sexual Adventures of Ulysses — Director of Photography
1998The Venexiana — Director, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
1998Thief of Love — Director of Photography
1997All the President's Women — Director, Director of Photography
1997Anal Strippers X-posed — Director, Director of Photography
1997Aphrodite: Goddess of Love — Director, Director of Operations
1997Caligula: The Deviant Emperor — Director, Director of Photography
1997Cop Sucker II — Director of Photography
1997Demons of Lust — Director of Photography
1997Flying Nurses — Director of Photography
1997Forbidden Diary of the two Princesses — Director, Director of Photography
1997Goya and the Naked Maja — Director, Director of Photography
1997Hercules: A Sex Adventure — Director of Photography
1997House of Anal Perversions — Director, Director of Photography
1997Le stagioni di Bel — Director
1997Nero: Orgy of Fire — Director
1997Olympus: Refuge of Gods — Director, Director of Photography
1997Othello: Dangerous Desire — Director of Photography
1997Queen of the Elephants — Director of Photography
1997Raw and Naked — Director of Photography
1997Rocco's Ghost — Director, Director of Photography, Writer
1997Rudy: The Valentino Story — Director, Camera Operator
1997Samson in the Amazon's Land — Director, Director of Photography
1997Sodom & Gamorra — Director of Photography
1997The Boxer — Director, Director of Photography
1997The Boxer 2 — Director of Photography
1997The Hyena — Director of Photography
1997The Last Fight — Director, Director of Photography
1997The Seven Sexy Sins — Director of Photography
1996Anthony and Cleopatra — Director, Writer
1996Black Cops in Budapest — Director
1996Carmen — Director, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
1996Checkmate — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
1996Dangerous — Director
1996Donna Flor and Her Three Husbands — Director
1996Dreams of a Gigolo — Director of Photography
1996Fatal Instinct — Director of Photography
1996Flamenco Ecstasy — Director, Camera Operator
1996Forbidden Sex of the Kama Sutra — Director of Photography
1996Gangland Bangers — Director, Director of Photography
1996Gypsy Seduction — Director
1996Il Monaco — Director
1996Love and Psyche — Director of Photography
1996Lunch Party — Director of Photography, Writer
1996Messalina — Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
1996Robin Hood: Thief of Wives — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
1996Top Girl — Director
1996Torero — Director, Director of Photography
1996Wild East — Director, Director of Photography
1995All Grown Up — Director
1995Amadeus Mozart — Director, Cinematography
1995Anal Palace — Director, Director of Photography
1995Decameron 2: Tales of Desire — Director
1995Don Salvatore: The Last Sicilian — Camera Operator, Director of Photography
1995Ghostfuck — Director
1995Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia — Polonio, Director
1995Homo Erectus — Director
1995Juliet & Romeo — Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
1995Malizia Italiana — Director, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
1995Mia moglie aperta a tutti — Director, Director of Photography
1995Midnight Obsession — Director of Photography
1995Operation Sex — Director, Director of Photography
1995Paprika — Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Script
1995Passion in Venice — Director
1995Provocation — Director, Director of Photography
1995Sea, Sex, and Fun — Director
1995Sick-o-pathics — Neighbour #2
1995Some Like It Hard — Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
1995Tarzan-X: Shame of Jane — Writer, Director of Photography
1995Tarzhard - The Return — Director
1995The Gym Club — Director, Director of Photography
1995The Joy Club — Director
1994Barone Von Masoch — Director
1994China and Sex — Director
1994Ghosts in the Castle — Director
1994L'alcova dei piaceri proibiti — Director
1994Le casalinghe preferiscono gli stalloni — Director
1994Marquis de Sade — Director
1994The Erotic Adventures of Aladdin X — Director, Director of Photography
1994The Erotic Adventures of Marco Polo — Director, Writer
1994The House of Pleasure — Director, Director of Photography
1994The Labyrinth of Love — Director
1993Chinese Kamasutra — Director
1993Incontri anali all’autosalone — Director
1993Rosa...Caldi rapporti anali — Director
1993Tales of Red Chamber — Director
1992A Woman's Secret — Director, Director of Photography
1992Francesca's Castle — Director
1992Il vizio infinito — Director
1992Instinct — Director
1992Love Project — Director
1992Prima le donne e i bambini — Director of Photography
1991Dangerous Obsession — Director, Director of Photography, Executive Producer
1991Door Into Silence — Executive Producer
1991Eleven Days, Eleven Nights 2 — Producer, Director of Photography
1991Passion's Flower — Director, Director of Photography
1991Return from Death (Frankenstein 2000) — Screenplay, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
1991The Crawlers — Director
1991The Devil in the Flesh — Director
1990Any Time, Any Play — Director of Photography
1990Body Moves — Executive Producer, Director
1990Deep Blood — Director of Photography
1990High Finance Woman — Director, Director of Photography
1990Quest for the Mighty Sword — Story, Director of Photography
1990Troll 2 — Associate Producer
198911 Days, 11 Nights Part 3 — Director, Director of Photography
1989Blue Angel Cafe — Director, Producer, Director of Photography
1989Hitcher in the Dark — Producer
1988Dirty Love — Director, Director of Photography
1988Ghosthouse — Producer
1988Killing Birds — Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Photoscience Manager
1988Top Model — Director
1988Witchcraft (Evil Encounters) — Producer
1987Eleven Days, Eleven Nights — Director, Director of Photography
1987Interzone — Producer
1987Stage Fright — Producer
1987Warrior Queen — Associate Producer
1986A Lustful Mind — Director, Director of Photography
1986Convent of Sinners — Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
1986Delizia — Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
1986Peep Show — Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Story
1985Robbery Under Arms — Trooper Shearer
1985The Alcove — Director, Director of Photography
1985The Pleasure — Director, Director of Photography
19832020 Texas Gladiators — Director, Director of Photography, Producer
1983Claire — Director
1983Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst — Director, Screenplay
1983Endgame — Inspector (uncredited), Producer, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
1983Love in Hong Kong — Director
1983The Blade Master — Writer, Director, Director of Photography
1983Virgin for the Roman Empire — Director of Photography, Screenplay
1983Virgin for the Roman Empire 2: Imperial Orgasm — Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay
1982Ator, the Fighting Eagle — Director of Photography, Writer
1982Caligula: The Untold Story — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
1982Cuando calienta el sol... vamos a la playa — Director of Photography
1982Stretta e bagnata — Director of Photography
1982Super Hard Love — Director of Photography
1982The Essence of Sex — Director
1981Absurd — Director of Photography, Producer
1981Caldo profumo di vergine — Director, Writer
1981Desire — Director, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
1981Greedy Mouth — Director, Director of Photography
1981Il mondo perverso di Beatrice — Director
1981Labbra vogliose — Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Co-Director, Writer
1981Le ereditiere superporno — Director of Photography
1981Le porno investigatrici — Director, Director of Photography
1981Porno Holocaust — Reporter (uncredited), Director, Director of Photography
1981Porno Video — Producer
1981Sesso acerbo — Director, Director of Photography
1981Voglia di sesso — Director, Director of Photography
1980Anthropophagous — Bearded Man exiting the Cable Car, Story, Producer, Camera Operator, Director
1980Blue Erotic Climax — Director of Photography
1980Blue Paradise — Director, Producer, Director of Photography
1980Erotic Nights of the Living Dead — Director of Photography
1980Exotic Malice — Director
1980Hard Sensation — Director of Photography
1980Porno Esotic Love — Director, Director of Photography
1980Sex and Black Magic — Director, Writer
1980Super Climax — Director of Photography, Writer
1979Beyond the Darkness — Director, Director of Photography
1979Images in a Convent — Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
1979Justine and the Whip — Director, Editor
1979Pleasure Shop on 7th Ave. — Director, Writer
1979Tough to Kill — Director, Director of Photography
1978Crazy Nights — Director of Photography, Writer
1978Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2 — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
1978Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade — Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Story
1978Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals — Director, Director of Photography
1978Sexy Night Report n. 2 — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
1977Emanuelle Around the World — Halup Kilev (uncredited), Director of Photography, Writer
1977Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals — Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Story
1977Emanuelle in America — Director, Director of Photography
1977Ladies' Doctor — Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay
1976Black Cobra — Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay
1976Emanuelle in Bangkok — Director, Director of Photography
1976Shadows in an Empty Room — Director of Photography
1976Vow of Chastity — Director
1975Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto — Director of Photography
1975Cassiodorus Is the Hardest Praetorian — Screenplay
1975Emanuelle and Françoise — Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
1975Red Coat — Director, Screenplay, Story
1974Anima mia — Newsagent (uncredited), Director of Photography
1974Challenge to White Fang — Second Unit Director of Photography
1974Heroes in Hell — Director
1974How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General — Director of Photography
1974The Antichrist — Director of Photography
1974The Arena — Director of Photography
1973Death Smiles on a Murderer — Director, Director of Photography
1973Diary of a Roman Virgin — Director of Photography, Screenplay
1973Fra' Tazio da Velletri — Director
1973Mean Frank and Crazy Tony — Director of Photography
1973Tales of Canterbury — Director, Writer
1973The Devil's Wedding Night — Director, Director of Photography
1973The Thousand and One Nights of Boccaccio in Canterbury — Director of Photography, Writer
1972Ben & Charlie — Director of Photography
1972Bounty Hunter in Trinity — Writer, Director
1972Crime Boss — Director of Photography
1972Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado — Director
1972God Is My Colt — Director
1972More Sexy Canterbury Tales — Monk, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
1972Pugni, pirati e karatè — Director, Director of Photography
1972The Cat in Heat — Director of Photography
1972The Killer Is on the Phone — Director of Photography
1972What Have You Done to Solange? — CID Officer w / The Daily Telegraph (uncredited), Director of Photography
1971Adios Compañeros — Director of Photography
1971Coffin Full of Dollars — Director of Photography
1971Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! — Director of Photography
1971Vendetta at Dawn — Camera Operator
1970A Quiet Place to Kill — Camera Operator
1970Disperatamente l'estate scorsa — Director of Photography
1970Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End — Director of Photography
1969Bandit Skin — Director of Photography
1969The Island of the Swedes — Director of Photography
1968Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger! — Willy, Donovan henchman
1968Twice a Judas — Camera Operator
1967Professionals for a Massacre — Camera Operator
1966Thompson 1880 — Camera Operator
1966Viaggio di nozze all'italiana — Camera Operator
19642 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge — Camera Operator
1964All the Other Girls Do! — Camera Operator
1964Old Shatterhand — Col. Hunter
1964Soldiers and corporals — Camera Operator
1963Canzoni... in bikini — Camera Operator
1963Contempt — Assistant Camera
1962The Sea — Assistant Camera
1961Gold of Rome — Assistant Camera
1961Hercules in the Haunted World — Camera Operator
1952The Golden Coach — Still Photographer
1951È l'amor che mi rovina — Still Photographer
1950L'inafferrabile 12 — Still Photographer

Appearances as themselves (6)

2021Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess — Self (archive footage)
2015Happy Porno? Das Ende der Scham — Self (archive footage)
2001Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut: The Horror Experience — Himself (Archival Footage)
1999Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience — Self
1996Heidi im Pornoland — Self
1977Sexy Night Report — Self (uncredited)