Directoers

Januari 4, 2008

Mario Salieri

Mario Salieri, born Mario Altieri, (November 29, 1957 in Naples – ) is an Italian porn director. He started with semi-amateur films in Amsterdam for the Italian market. Since early 1990s he has directed and written many porn titles with divas like Zara Whites and the Italian actress Selen. He is also the owner of Salieri Productions. He usually casts Roberto Malone for the main roles. Silvio Bandinelli and many newer porn directors in Italy and France, like Dino Toscani and Jenny Forte follow his distinctive style. His wife Nicky Ranieri (who used to be a porn actress for Salieri films with the name Magdalena Lynn) is also a porn director.

Joe D’Amato

Joe D’Amato was born Aristide Massaccesi on December 15, 1936, in Rome, Italy. At age 14 he began working for his father, a chief electrician and later the founder of the company A.C.M. By going to school in the daytime, Massaccesi worked afternoons part-time as a stagehand and stage cameraman around various film sets. After finishing grade school, from 1953 to 1957 Massaccesi worked for his father. Mole Richardson, another motion picture company, was looking for someone to work as an assistant cameraman and Massaccesi jumped at the opportunity. Starting in 1969 he worked as director of photography as well as assistant director for a number of films until 1974. His first directing work was in 1972’s low-budget Scansati… a Trinità arriva Eldorado (1972), co-directed by Diego Spataro, under the pseudonym Dick Spitfire. The film was a commercial failure. Later that same year Massaccesi directed a western (under the name of Oskar Faradine). He then used his assistant’s name, Romano Gastaldi, for his next film, Fra’ Tazio da Velletri (1973), as well as a few others.