Camillo Bazzoni (29 December 1934 – 8 October 2020) was an Italian cinematographer and film director.

Career

Born in

Salsomaggiore Terme Salsomaggiore Terme ( Salsese: ; Parmigiano: ) is a town and ''comune'' located in the province of Parma, in the region of Emilia-Romagna. Located at the foot of the Apennines, its warm saline waters made this a popular Spa town. History In the f ...

, Bazzoni started as

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in 1960. From 1967 he worked as cinematographer with, among others,

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, and Franco Rossi. He was also a second unit camera operator on

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's '' Reds''. After a series of documentaries and short films, in 1968 Bazzoni debuted as a film director with

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, ''

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'', and a

Spaghetti Western The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most ...

, ''

A Long Ride from Hell ''A Long Ride from Hell'' ( Italian: ''Vivo per la tua morte'', lit. "I live for your death") is a 1968 Spaghetti Western film directed by Camillo Bazzoni. It is based on the novel ''Judas Gun'' by Gordon D. Shirreffs. The film was bodybuilder St ...

''. He was the younger brother of the director

Luigi Bazzoni Luigi Bazzoni (25 June 1929 - 1 March 2012) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy, Bazzoni was the elder brother of the film director and cinematographer Camillo Bazzoni and a cousin of the Academy Award ...

and the brother-in-law of

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winner

Vittorio Storaro Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940) is an Italian cinematographer widely recognized as one of the best and most influential in cinema history, for his work on numerous classic films including '' The Conformist,'' ''Apocalypse Now ...

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* 1934 births 2020 deaths People from Salsomaggiore Terme Italian film directors Italian screenwriters Spaghetti Western directors Italian cinematographers Italian male screenwriters {{Italy-film-director-stub