Aldo Tonti
Aldo Tonti was an Italian cinematographer.
Born in Rome, Tonti started his career as photographer, then entered the film industry as an assistant camera operator. He debuted as a cinematographer in 1939, with Piccoli naufraghi by Flavio Calzavara; his first important work was Ossessione by Luchino Visconti. His works include films by Federico Fellini, King Vidor, Richard Fleischer, Roberto Rossellini, John Huston, Alberto Lattuada, Mario Monicelli, Sergio Sollima, Pietro Germi, Dino Risi, Marco Ferreri. In 1961 he won a Silver Ribbon for best cinematography for Nicholas Ray's The Savage Innocents. Tonti retired in 1982.
Selected filmography
Odette Under the Southern Cross Cardinal Messias Diamonds Hurricane in the Tropics The Cavalier from Kruja The Pirate's Dream Caravaggio Blood Wedding- Headlights in the Fog
- I Live as I Please
- Bengasi Nothing New Tonight Ossessione The Champion A Living Statue A Little Wife In High Places The Gates of Heaven The Testimony The Bandit The Sun Still Rises Rome, Free City Peddlin' in Society Flesh Will Surrender The Captain's Daughter Without Pity Hey Boy The Wolf of the Sila The Firemen of Viggiù The Mill on the Po Little Lady Outlaw Girl I'm in the Revue Side Street Story The Cadets of Gascony The Merry Widower
- The Elusive Twelve Europe '51 Easy Years The Unfaithfuls The Ship of Condemned Women La lupa Where Is Freedom? Attila Are We Men or Corporals? Nights of Cabiria Souvenirs d'Italie Tempest Move and I'll Shoot Fortunella Winter Holidays The Hunchback of Rome The Savage Innocents Under Ten Flags Barabbas Damon and Pythias Agostino Il diavolo Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance The Ape Woman The Man, the Woman and the Money Treasure of San Gennaro The Devil in Love If All the Women in the World Cast a Giant Shadow Catch as Catch Can Reflections in a Golden Eye Bandits in Rome The Black Sheep Violent City Brancaleone at the Crusades A Girl in Australia The Designated Victim The Deserter The Valachi Papers It Can Be Done Amigo War Goddess Mean Frank and Crazy Tony Three Tough Guys Crazy Joe The Count of Monte Cristo Due cuori, una cappella Strange Occasion A Woman at Her Window
- ''Ashanti''