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Ciro Ippolito (born Naples, Italy, 27 January 1947) is an Italian film director and producer.〔(New York Times )〕 He is known to horror film fans for his 1980 opus ''Alien 2: On Earth'', which he coproduced, wrote and directed. == Biography == Born in 1947 the son of an Italian theatre producer, Ciro Ippolito started his career during childhood being an actor in the film ''Class of Iron'' (''Classe di ferro'', 1957) by Turi Vasile. In 1972 he participated in the film ''Augustine of Hippo'' (''Agostino d'Ippona'') by Roberto Rossellini, with whom he worked as assistant director. In the mid-1960s, he produced two theatre shows of Leopoldo Mastelloni (''Le compagnie'' and ''Brechtomania''), and participated in various films (''I misteri di Napoli'', ''La Badessa di Castro'', ''Vieni amore mio'', ''Flavia la monaca musulmana'', ''La fine dell'innocenza'') as actor or screenwriter. His first work as a film director came in 1980 with the film ''Alien 2: On Earth'' (''Alien 2 sulla terra''), made under the pseudonym Sam Cromwell. His main successes from that period are ''Lacrime napolitane'' (Berlin Film Festival, 1980), followed by ''Pronto...Lucia'' (1982) and ''Zampognaro innamorato'' (1983), both with Carmelo Zappulla. ''Arrapaho'', a film about the Amerindian tribe Arapaho, was an immediate success. The film was made in a fortnight at a cost of 135 million Italian lira and recovered five billion. Ippolito continued his activity as film producer with ''La venexiana'' (1986) directed by Mauro Bolognini and his television activity with works like ''La romana'' by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, ''Gli indifferenti'', miniseries by Bolognini, ''Disperatamente Giulia'' by Enrico Maria Salerno, ''Donna d'onore'' by Stuart Margolin, ''The Seventh Scroll'' (''Il settimo papiro'') by Kevin Condor and ''Il terzo segreto di Fatima'' by Alfredo Peyretti. During the 1990s, he was producer for Lina Wertmüller in ''Io speriamo che me la cavo'' and ''Ninfa Plebea'', and for Maurizio Nichetti in ''Palla di neve''. Ciro Ippolito's last film was ''Vaniglia e cioccolato'' / ''Vanilla and Chocolate'' (2004), an adaptation of the homonym novel of Sveva Casati Modigliani, which had a discrete success. In 2010 Ippolito published a book entitled ''Un Napoletano a Hollywood''.〔Ciro Ippolito, ''Un Napoletano a Hollywood'', Nápoles: Casa Editrice Tullio Pironti S.r.l., 2010, 180 pp. ISBN 978-88-7937-501-6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ciro Ippolito」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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