RIP Giancarlo Ferrando

Italian filmmaker Giancarlo Ferrando died in Rome on August 13, 2020. He was 81. Born in Rome on November 4, 1939 he began to work as a camera operator on The Garden of the Finzi Contini, by Vittorio De Sica in 1970.

In 1971 he made his debut as a director of photography and cinematographer in the Spaghetti western genre on The Buzzards and Crows Will Dig Your Grave by Juan Bosch. He also worked on a few thrillers but devoted most of his career working on sexy Italian comedies working with Sergio Martino on about 30 films.

In the 1980s he made fantasy and horror films under the direction of Lamberto Bava, Umberto Lenzi, Claudio Fragasso and Lucio Fulci.

Between the 1990s and early 2000s he worked mainly for television productions both series and films.

In 1994 he made is only film as a director, La ragazza di Cortina, using the pseudinuym Maurizio Vanni.

FERRANDO, Giancarlo

Born: 11/4/1939, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 8/13/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Giancarlo Ferrando’s westerns – cinematographer, cameraman, producer, writer:

$10,000 for a Massacre – 1967 [cameraman]

The Longest Hunt – 1968 [cameraman]

The Silent Stranger – 1968 [writer]

Heads or Tails – 1969 [cameraman]

The Buzzards and Crows Will Dig Your Grave – 1971 [cinematographer]

Gunman of 100 Crosses – 1971 [cameraman]

God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth – 1972 [cinematographer]

Dallas – 1974 (co) [cinematographer]

Buck at the Edge of Heaven – 1991 [producer, director of photography]