Sergio Salvati

{{Short description|Italian cinematographer (1934–2025)}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Sergio Salvati | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1934|6|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|9|17|1934|6|16|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | other_names = | occupation = Cinematographer | years_active = 1960–2025 | spouse = | partner = | website = | awards = }}

'''Sergio Salvati''' (16 June 1934 – 17 September 2025) was an Italian cinematographer.

==Life and career== Salvati 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.

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 1960s and 1970s: 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 Marrakesh, Sergio Salvati established the groundwork for a collaboration with the country of Morocco. 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 taught cinematography in film schools in both Ouarzazate and Casablanca. He also taught at the famous Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia in Rome and freely shared 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 remained on the board of directors.

Salvati died on 17 September 2025, at the age of 91.<ref>[https://www.dagospia.com/media-tv/necrologio-dei-giusti-se-ne-sergio-salvati-91-anni-romanissimo-grande-447646 Marco Giusti per Dagospia] {{in lang|it}}</ref>

==Partial filmography== :Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological. {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! width="15%" rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title !! width="4%" rowspan="2" scope="col" | Year!! colspan="3" scope="col" | Credited as !! width="10%" rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes !! width="1%" rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable" |{{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}} |- ! width=6% | Director of photography!! width=6% |Camera operator!! width=6% | Other |- !scope="row"|{{sort|Strega in amore|''La strega in amore''}} |1966 | | |{{yes}} | Assistant cameraman |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2015|p=171-172}} |- !scope="row"|''My Name Is Nobody'' |1973 | {{yes}} | | | Uncredited |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2015|p=197}}{{sfn|Curti|2016|p=198}} |- !scope="row"|''Four of the Apocalypse'' |rowspan="2"|1975 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG4012|publisher=Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it|title=I quattro dell'Apocalisse (1975)|language=Italian|access-date=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830053100/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/four-of-the-apocalypse-v145499|url=http://www.allmovie.com:80/movie/four-of-the-apocalypse-v145499|title=Four of the Apocalypse|access-date=14 August 2017|last=Buchanan|first=Jason|archive-date=30 August 2013|publisher=AllMovie|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''Dracula in the Provinces'' | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=138}} |- !scope="row"|''Sette note in nero'' |1977 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=172}} |- !scope="row"|''Zombi 2'' |rowspan="2"|1979 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb9ac28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310004252/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb9ac28 |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 March 2016 |title=Zombi 2 (1979) |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921070118/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/zombie-v130311|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/zombie-v130311|title=Zombie|access-date=23 November 2018|last=Firsching|first=Robert|archive-date=21 September 2013|publisher=AllMovie|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot'' | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=205}}{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=206}} |- !scope="row"|''Contraband'' |rowspan="2"|1980 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=277}} |- !scope="row"|''City of the Living Dead'' | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=42}} |- !scope="row"|{{sort|Black Cat|''The Black Cat''}} |rowspan="3"|1981 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=55}} |- !scope="row"|{{sort|Beyond|''The Beyond''}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829024513/https://allmovie.com/movie/the-beyond-v43842|url=https://allmovie.com:80/movie/the-beyond-v43842|title=The Beyond|access-date=14 August 2017|last=Firsching|first=Robert|archive-date=29 August 2013|work=AllMovie|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=64}} |- !scope="row"|{{sort|House by the Cemetery|''The House by the Cemetery''}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=84}} |- !scope="row"|''1990: The Bronx Warriors'' |1982 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite journal|title=Bronx Warriors "(1990 I Guerrieri del Bronx)"|volume=50|issue=588|pages=191–192|year=1983|journal=Monthly Film Bulletin|last=Newman|first=Kim|authorlink=Kim Newman|publisher=British Film Institute|location=London}}</ref> |}

== References == ===Footnotes=== {{reflist}}

===Sources=== {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book|last=Curti|first=Roberto|title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786469765|year=2013}} * {{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957–1969 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1989-7 |year=2015 }} * {{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1476629605 |year=2017 }} * {{cite book | last= Curti | first= Roberto | title= Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 |publisher= McFarland |year= 2019 |isbn= 978-1476672434}} * {{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Tonino Valerii: The Films |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476664682 |year=2016 }} {{Refend}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0759331}}

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