Ciro Ippolito

Ciro Ippolito
Born	January 27, 1947 (1947-01-27) (age 64) Naples, Italy
Occupation	Film director, film producer
Years active	1960–present

Ciro Ippolito (born Naples, Italy, 27 January 1947) is an Italian film director and producer.^[1]

Biography

The son of an Italian theatre producer, Ciro Ippolito started his career during childhood being an actor in the film Class of Iron (Classe di ferro, 1957) by Turi Vasile.

In 1972 he participated in the film Augustine of Hippo (Agostino d'Ippona) of Roberto Rossellini with whom he worked as assistant director. In the middle of the 1960s he produced two theatre shows of Leopoldo Mastelloni (Le compagnie and Brechtomania). Still during the 1960s he participated in various films (I misteri di Napoli, La Badessa di Castro, Vieni amore mio, Flavia la monaca musulmana, La fine dell'innocenza) as actor or screenwriter.

His first work as film director dates back to 1979 with the film Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla terra) made under the pseudonym Sam Cromwell. His main successes from that period are Lacrime napolitane (Berlin Film Festival, 1980) followed by Pronto... Lucia (1982) and Zampognaro innamorato (1983), both with Carmelo Zappulla.

Arrapaho, a film about the Amerindian tribe Arapaho, was an immediate success of Italian cinema. The film was made in a fortnight with a cost of 135 million Italian lira and recovered five billion.

Ippolito continued his activity as film producer with La venexiana (1986) directed by Mauro Bolognini and his television activity with works like La romana by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Gli indifferenti, miniseries by Bolognini, Disperatamente Giulia by Enrico Maria Salerno, Donna d'onore by Stuart Margolin, The Seventh Scroll (Il settimo papiro) by Kevin Condor and Il terzo segreto di Fatima by Alfredo Peyretti.

During the 1990s he was producer for Lina Wertmüller in Io speriamo che me la cavo and Ninfa Plebea, and for Maurizio Nichetti in Palla di neve.

Ciro Ippolito's last film was Vaniglia e cioccolato, (2004), an adaptation of the homonym novel of Sveva Casati Modigliani, which had a discrete success.

In 2010 Ippolito published a book entitled Un Napoletano a Hollywood.^[2]

Filmography

Director

• Strangers, (1974) (under the pseudonym George Spelvin)
• Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla Terra), (1980) (under the pseudonym Sam Cromwell)
• Lacrime napoletane, (1981)
• Pronto... Lucia, (1982)
• Zampognaro innamorato, (1983)
• Arrapaho, (1984)
• Uccelli d'Italia, (1984)
• Vaniglia e cioccolato, (2004)

Scenarist

• L'Ultimo guappo, (1978)
• Napoli serenata calibro 9, (1978)
• Big Mamma (Il mammasantissima), (1978)
• Lo Scugnizzo, (1979)
• Napoli... la camorra sfida e la città risponde, (1979)
• I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia, (1979)
• Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla Terra), (1980) (executive productor under the pseudonym Sam Cromwell)
• Lacrime napulitane, (1981)
• Zampognaro innamorato, (1983)
• Arrapaho, (1984)
• Snowball (Palla di neve), (1995)
• The Seventh Scroll (Il settimo papiro), (1999) (Miniseries)
• Vaniglia e cioccolato, (2004)

Producer

• Onore e guapperia, (1977)
• Napoli serenata calibro 9, (1978)
• Big Mamma (Il mammasantissima), (1978)
• Lo Scugnizzo, (1979)
• Napoli... la camorra sfida e la città risponde, (1979)
• I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia, (1979)
• Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla Terra), (1980) (executive productor under the pseudonym Sam Cromwell)
• Lacrime napulitane, (1981)
• Zampognaro innamorato, (1983)
• Uccelli d'Italia, (1984)
• Arrapaho, (1984)
• La venexiana, (1986)
• A Time of Indifference (Gli indifferenti), (1988) (Miniseries)
• Disperatamente Giulia, (1989) (Miniseries)
• Bride of Violence (Donna d'onore), (1991)
• Ciao, Professore! (Io speriamo che me la cavo), (1992)
• Palla di neve, (1995)
• The Nymph (Ninfa plebea), (1996)
• The Seventh Scroll (Il settimo papiro), (1999) (Miniseries)
• Il terzo segreto di Fatima, (2001)
• Vaniglia e cioccolato, (2004)

Actor

• Class of Iron (Classe di ferro)), (1957)
• Augustine of Hippo (Agostino d'Ippona), (1972)
• La Badessa di Castro, (1974)
• Flavia (Flavia la monaca musulmana), (1974)
• Annie (La fine dell'innocenza), (1976)
• Napoli... la camorra sfida e la città risponde, (1979)
• Lacrime napulitane, (1979)
• Arrapaho, (1984)

References

1. ^ New York Times
2. ^ Ciro Ippolito, Un Napoletano a Hollwood, Nápoles: Casa Editrice Tullio Pironti S.r.l., 2010, 180 pp. ISBN 978-88-7937-501-6

External links

• Ciro Ippolito at the Internet Movie Database
• Ciro Ippolito at AllRovi

Persondata
Name	Ippolito, Ciro
Alternative names
Short description	Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Date of birth	January 27, 1947
Place of birth	Naples, Italy
Date of death
Place of death