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Ruggero Deodato

Director

Born - 7 May 1939, Potenza, Italy
Died - 29 December 2022

Balding, short, bespectacled Italian director of some particularly gory horror films. His Cannibal Holocaust was banned in many countries on its first appearance. He started as an assistant director at just 20 before branching out on his own: Horror Castle (1963), Hercules, Prisoner of Evil (1964), Fenomenal and the Treasure of Tutenkamen (1967), Gungala, the Panther Girl (1968), Zenabel (1969), Waves of Lust (1975), Jungle Holocaust (1977), Last Feelings (1978), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), House on the Edge of the Park (1981), Atlantis Interceptors (1983), Body Count (1986), Phantom of Death (1987), Dial Help (1988), The Wishing Machine (1993), Padre Speranza (2003), The Profane Exhibit (2013), Ballad in Blood (2016) and Deathcember (co-director, 2019), his last. He died from kidney and liver failure after a bout of pneumonia.