16 Facts About Lamberto Bava

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Lamberto Bava was born on 3 April 1944 and is an Italian film director.

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Lamberto Bava co-directed the 1979 television film La Venere d'Ille with his father and in 1980 directed his first solo feature film Macabre.

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Lamberto Bava continued working in the 1980s and collaborated with Dario Argento on films such as Demons.

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Lamberto Bava was born in Rome, Italy on 3 April 1944.

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Lamberto's father Mario Bava was a film director known primarily as a director of horror films.

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Lamberto Bava was approached by director Dario Argento to assist him with his giallo film Tenebre, wherein Bava is credited as an assistant director.

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In 1983, Lamberto Bava directed his second feature film as a director, the giallo film A Blade in the Dark.

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Lamberto Bava was given a script for Blastfighter, a film originally written as a remake of the Australian film Mad Max with the intention of giving it to director Lucio Fulci.

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In 1985, Lamberto Bava reteamed with Dario Argento on the film Demons.

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Lamberto Bava made the television film Midnight Killer the same year.

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Lamberto Bava makes a cameo in the film as a photographer at the beginning of the film.

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Lamberto Bava returned to television work making several episodes of a series of hour-long films produced by Dario Argento.

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Lamberto Bava did a remake of Black Sunday for the European television series Sabbath titled La maschera del demonio which premiered in June 1990 at Rome's Fantafestival.

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Lamberto Bava began the 1990s with the fairy tale inspired series Fantaghiro series and its many sequels.

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In 1992, Lamberto Bava made the film Body Puzzle, which starred Joanna Pacula, who learns that her late husband Abe had a lover named Tim Bell.

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In 1991, Lamberto Bava directed Fantaghiro, a television miniseries that was influenced by films such as Legend, Willow and Ladyhawke.