Dante Ferretti Biography (1943-)

Born February 26, 1943, in Marcerata, Marchesa, Italy. Addresses: Manager: Sandra Marsh Management, 9150 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 220, Beverly Hills,CA 90212.

Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Production designer, set designer, art director
Birth Details: February 26, 1943; Marcerata, Italy

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Production Designer
(With Nichola Tamburro) Medea, New Line Cinema, 1971
Il decamerone (also known as The Decameron), United Artists, 1971
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (also known as La classe operaia va in paradiso and Lulu the Tool), Euro-International Films, 1971
Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente, 1971
The Canterbury Tales (also known as I racconti di Canterbury), United Artists, 1972
Storie scellerate (also known as Bawdy Tales and RoguishStories), 1973
Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (also known as Slap the Monster on Page One and Vil en premiere page), 1973
Il fiore della mille e una notte (also known as Arabian Nights, Flower of the Arabian Nights, Les mille et une nuits, andA Thousand and One Nights), United Artists, 1974
Delitto d'amore (also known as Somewhere beyond Love), Documento Film, 1974
Crime of Love, Documento Film, 1974
The Night Porter, Avco-Embassy, 1974
Dio mio, come sono caduta in basso! (also known as How Long CanYou Fall? and Till Marriage Do Us Part), 1974
Salo, or, The One Hundred Days of Sodom (also known as Salo, o,le 120 giornate di Sodoma and Salo, ou, les 120 journees de Sodome), Zebra, 1975
Todo modo, [Italy], 1976
Il casotto (also known as Casotto, Beach House, The Beach Hut, and In the Beach House), [Italy], 1977
La presidentessa, 1977
Il mostro, 1977
Il gatto (also known as The Cat and Qui a tue le chat?), Rafran Cinematografica, 1978
Eutanasia di un amore (also known as Break Up), [Italy], 1978
Bye Bye Monkey (also known as Ciao maschio and Reve de singe), Fida, 1978
Orchestra Rehearsal (also known as Prova d'orchestra), NewYorker, 1979
City of Women (also known as La citta delle donne), New Yorker, 1980
Il minestrone, [Italy], 1980
La pelle (also known as La peau and The Skin), Triumph/Columbia, 1981
Desire (also known as Desiderio), Hemisphere, 1983
La nuit de Varennes (also known as La notte di Varennes, Il mondo nuovo, and That Night in Varennes), Triumph/Columbia, 1983

Tales of Ordinary Madness (also known as Storie di ordinaria follia), Fred Baker Films, 1983
E la nave va (also known as And the Ship Sails On and Etvogue le navire), VIDES, 1983, Triumph/Columbia, 1984
Pianoforte, [Italy], 1984
Il futuro e donna (also known as The Future Is a Woman), 1984
Le bon roi Dagobert (also known as Dagobert), Filmedis, 1984
(And set designer) Ginger e Fred (also known as Ginger and Fred), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1986
(With Rainer Schaper) The Name of the Rose (also known as Il nome della rosa, Der Name der Rose, and Le nom de la rose), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1986
(With Francesca LoSchiavo) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (also known as Die Abenteuer des Baron von Muenchhausen), TriStar, 1989
Lo zio indegno, [Italy], 1989
The Voice of the Moon (also known as La voce della luna), Cecchi Gori, 1989
Hamlet, Warner Bros., 1990
(With Wolfgang Hundhammer) Dr. M (also known as Club Extinction and Docteur M.), Prism Entertainment, 1990
(With Francesca LoSchiavo) The Sleazy Uncle, Quartet Films, 1991
(With Robert J. Franco) The Age of Innocence, Columbia, 1993
(With Francesca LoSchiavo) Interview with the Vampire (also knownas Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles), Warner Bros.,1994
Casino, Universal, 1995
(With Francesca LoSchiavo) Kundun, Buena Vista, 1997
Meet Joe Black (also known as Death Takes a Vacation), Universal, 1998
Bringing out the Dead, Paramount, 1999
Titus (also known as Titus Andronicus), Overseas FilmGroup,1999
Gangs of New York, Miramax, 2002
Art Director
Il fiore della mille e una notte (also known as Arabian Nights, Flower of the Arabian Nights, Les mille et une nuits, andA Thousand and One Nights), United Artists, 1974
Tales of Ordinary Madness (also known as Storie di ordinaria follia), Fred Baker Films, 1983
Oltre la porta (also known as Behind the Door, Beyond Obsession, Beyond the Door, Jail Bird, and The Secret beyond the Door), 1982
Other
Assistant production designer, Il vangelo secondo Matteo (also known as The Gospel according to St. Matthew and L'evangile selon saint Matthieu), Arco Films, 1964
Assistant music arranger, Il campagno Don Camillo (also known as Don Camillo en Russie, Don Camillo in Moscow, and Genosse DonCamillo), Francoriz Production/Rizzoli Film, 1965
Assistant art director, Lo sbarco di Anzio (also known as Anzio and The Battle for Anzio), 1968
Set decorator, I bastardi (also known as Der Bastard, Lebatard, The Cats, and Sons of Satan), 1968
Costume designer, Kundun, Buena Vista, 1997
Film Appearances
A la recherche de Kundun avec Martin Scorsese (also known as InSearch of Kundun with Martin Scorsese), 1998
Television Work
Production Designer; Miniseries
Il segreto del Sahara, 1987
Production Designer; Other
La traviata, 1992
Cavalleria rusticana, 1996
Un ballo in maschera, 2001
Stage Work
Stage Designer
Stage designer for the operas Tosca and La fanciulla del west, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Manon Iascaut, Italy.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Insight on the News, May 1, 1995, p. 26
TCI, February, 1995, pp. 28-31

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