{{Short description|Italian cinematographer and documentarist (born 1927)}} {{Infobox person | name = Mario Vulpiani | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1927|2|15}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Cinematographer | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = | children = | awards = }}
'''Mario Vulpiani''' (born 15 February 1927) is an Italian cinematographer and documentarist.
== Life and career == Born in Rome, Vulpiani began his career as assistant of the operator Enrico Chroscisky.<ref name="vdfv">Stefano Masi. ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia''. Recco, Le Mani, 2007, pp. 607-608. {{ISBN|88-8012-387-4}}.</ref> In the fifties he worked mainly in the field of documentary films, also working as a director.<ref name="vdfv" /> In 1965, with a segment of the anthology film ''Marcia nuziale'', Vulpiani started a critically appreciated collaboration with the director Marco Ferreri that includes the celebrated cult films ''Dillinger Is Dead'' and ''La Grande Bouffe''.<ref name="vdfv" /> In the late sixties he collaborated with the postmodern painter Mario Schifano in his three experimental films.<ref name="vdfv" /> In the seventies he worked, among others, with Valentino Orsini, Damiano Damiani, Andrea Barzini, Mario Monicelli and Carlo Lizzani.<ref name="vdfv" /> Starting from the eighties Vulpiani focused into less ambitious works, except for several collaborations with Gabriele Lavia.<ref name="vdfv" />
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== External links == * {{IMDb name|0005919}}
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