Claudio Fragasso

Quick Facts

Full Name	Claudio Fragasso
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Oct 2, 1951(1951-10-02)
Age	73
Birthplace	Rome
Country	Italy
Birth City	Lazio
Horoscope	Libra

Claudio Fragasso Biography

Claudio Fragasso is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on October 2, 1951 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Claudio Fragasso was born on 2 October 1951. Prior to his directing career, Claudio Fragasso worked as screenwriter from the mid-1970s. Fragasso initially planned to create art-films, and first filming his films on Super8 like Passaggi (1977) along with its sequel Difendimi dalla Notte, with Fragasso saying “In Italy, to be considered important, you must shoot something like that.”. According to Fragasso the screenplay for Il Medium was done specifically for director Silvio Amadio in the year 1975. However, the film didn’t launch until 1979. Fragasso was involved in the screenplays for numerous Italian crime thrillers during the 1970s.

The year was 1986. Fragasso produced a short film by himself, without Mattei called Monster Dog for producer Eduard Sarlui with the help of music legend Alice Cooper. Fragasso and Drudi were also the co-writers of Zombi 3, the follow-up to Lucio Fulci’s Zombi 2, called Zombi 3. Director Fulci was forced to quit the Philippines location before finishing the film, which led to Drudi and Fragasso being required to write and extend the script over the course of one day, with the film’s directing tasks being carried out with Bruno Mattei who was working in the Philippines at the time. Fragasso was able to fly back the next day to help Mattei with filming.

In the mid-1990s, critics suggested there was a resurgence of crime films in Italy going on after the release of The Escort. This new wave included Fragasso’s Palermo – Milan One Way, the box office success of which led to others such as Coppia omicida and the television film Operazione Odissea. Fragasso continued to make several films for both theatrical and television release, culminating in his 2007 sequel to Palermo – Milan One Way which was called Milano Palermo – il ritorno.

Fragasso first met the director Bruno Mattei when Mattei was in the position of assistant editor, and they quickly became friends with one another since they both enjoyed genre movies. In the year 1980, Mattei began a close collaboration with screenwriter Fragasso starting in The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980) and concluding with a comedic film called Three For One (1990). They worked closely throughout the decade (collaborating on fifteen movies) with Fragasso sometimes taking on the position of the second unit or assistant director. Fragasso has declared that he is an avid fan of splatter movies and said they were “very important to me. The Italian spirit compels us to exaggerate.”

Claudio Fragasso Net Worth

Claudio Fragasso is one of the richest Film Director from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Claudio Fragasso 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Claudio Fragasso (born 2 October 1951) is screenwriter and director of films. Fragasso initially tried to create film art in the late 1970s. He later became screenwriter within the Italian film industry by the late 1970s. Fragasso was introduced to Director Bruno Mattei which led to an ten-year collaboration between 1980 and 1990 in which they worked closely on films, and Fragasso’s work often being uncredited. The wife of Fragasso Rossella Drudi, a screenwriter too, and worked alongside him in a variety of projects. Fragasso went on to direct and write his own films during the 1980s, such as Monster Dog with rock musician Alice Cooper and After Death. Fragasso also made Troll 2 in 1989 which was later the subject of documentaries like Best Worst Movie which discussed the film’s fandom.

After Hell of the Living Dead The producers suggested a second two-film partnership that resulted in Women’s Prison Massacre and Violence in a Women’s Prison, both of which starred Laura Gemser. A Women’s prison scripted by Fragasso and Drudi. Fragasso expressed his appreciation for working with Gemser and stated she was “compared to the starlets of today, she was virtually a nun, the absolute opposite of a porn star”. Gemser would later be a part of producer Aristide Massaccesi’s Filmirage team acting as costume design for Troll 2. Troll 2. The producer Roberto Di Girolamo requested a post-apocalyptic feature by Fragasso and Mattei named Rats: Night of Terror. Fragasso worked with Mattei on both Westerns Mattei produced in the 80s, Scalps as well as White Apache. Fragasso also played small parts in his films, including Robowar as well as Cop Game.

Fragasso would later make Troll 2 for Massaccesi who wanted to make a horror film without any blood in it. The film was shot in mid-1989 in Morgan, Utah. Rosella met the producer Sarlui and he had a mask from the film Troll which Fragasso had not seen. Fragasso stated their film was originally to be titled Goblins and was written with Drudi as a more family-oriented horror film with humor about goblins who hated carnivorous humans as the goblins were vegetarians. Fragasso is credited as Drako Floyd, a pen name created by Drudi from the Dragon sign in the Chinese zodiac and for the band Pink Floyd.

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Facts & Trivia

Claudio Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Claudio Fragasso celebrates birthday on October 2 of every year.