Sergio Salvati

Sergio Salvati
Born	(1938-06-16) 16 June 1938 Rome, Italy
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1960 – present

Sergio Salvati (born 16 June 1938) is an Italian cinematographer who was born in Trastevere, a working-class neighborhood of Rome, Italy. His father, Aldofo Salvati, was already a key grip in the early days of Italian cinema, and through his father's contacts Sergio began his career developing negatives in a small photographic laboratory in Rome, the SPES directed by Di Ettore Catalucci.

Biography

In 1956 his father was working with Enzo Serafin, who asked Sergio to work with him as camera assistant on Raw Wind in Eden starring Esther Williams and Jeff Chandler. Many other films shot in Italy would follow, both cult classics and commercial cinema. He would be a camera assistant on Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and later assistant to Ennio Guarnieri on three projects from the 60s and 70s: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea (1969), L'Invasion (1970) directed by Yves Allegret and Mauro Bolognini's Metello (1979).

During his career, Salvati would be director of photography for eleven films directed by Lucio Fulci, the Italian master of gore, including the famous Wax Mask taken over by Dario Argento when Fulci died during preparation of the film. He would also be cinematographer on several films produced by Charles Band, including Puppetmaster (1989). After having filmed scenes of Christian De Sica's remake of his father's film, Il Conte Max (1991), in Marrakech, Sergio Salvati established the groundwork for a collaboration with the country of Morocco that continues until today. He worked alongside his friend Ennio Guarnieri on two films from the TNT Bible series shot in Ouarzazate, the Hollywood of Morocco: Jacob (1994) and The Seventh Scroll (1999). At the age of 73, he was director of photography on an independent Moroccan film, The Return of the Son, directed by Ahmed Boulane.

He has taught and continues to teach cinematography in film schools in both Ouarzazate and Casablanca. He has taught at the famous Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia in Rome and freely shares his experience with young filmmakers, as well as perpetuating the rich tradition of "Italian cinema". Salvati was president of the AIC, Associazione Italiana Autori della Fotografia, from 2007 through 2008 and remains on the board of directors.

Partial filmography

Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes	Ref(s)
		Director of photography	Camera operator	Other
La strega in amore	1966			Yes	Assistant cameraman
My Name Is Nobody	1973	Yes			Uncredited
Four of the Apocalypse	1975	Yes
Dracula in the Provinces		Yes
Sette note in nero	1977	Yes
Zombi 2	1979	Yes
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot		Yes
Contraband	1980	Yes
City of the Living Dead		Yes
The Black Cat	1981	Yes
The Beyond		Yes
The House by the Cemetery		Yes
1990: The Bronx Warriors	1982	Yes

References

Sources

• Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.
• Curti, Roberto (2015). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957–1969. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1989-7.
• Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
• Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476672434.
• Curti, Roberto (2016). Tonino Valerii: The Films. McFarland. ISBN 9781476664682.

External links

• Sergio Salvati at IMDb