Filippo Ottoni

Born in Cellere on 17 May 1938, Ottoni graduated from London Film School and began directing documentaries for the BBC.^[1] He began his career in cinema at the end of the 1960s as an assistant to Romolo Guerrieri and Mario Bava.^[2] He made his directing debut with the 1971 film La grande scrofa nera [it]. He also directed Detective School Dropouts, which became popular in the United States. Additionally, he directed the dubbing of numerous films in foreign languages into Italian.^[3] He served as president of the Associazione Italiana Dialoghisti Cinematografici Adattatori.

Ottoni died in Rome on 7 May 2023, ten days before his 85th birthday.^[4]

• La grande scrofa nera (1971)
• The Night Before Christmas [it] (1978)
• Detective School Dropouts (1986)
• I giorni randagi [it] (1988)
• L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialle [it] (1995)

• A Bay of Blood (1971)
• Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993)