Adolfo Bartoli

Born 1950-08-12 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died 2024-06-30

Adolfo Bartoli started working as a technician for Mole Richardson, then, worked as assistant operator for the most important cinematographers, such as Pasqualino De Santis (Academy award for "Romeo and Jiulietta"). He also worked with other Cinematographers such as: Marcello Gatti, Tonino Delli Colli, Giuseppe Rotunno, Aldo and Giorgio Tonti, Gabor and Cristiano Pogany, Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli, Geoffrey Unsworth, Jack Hilyards. He became a cinematographer filming many documentaries and fiction such as: "Rosso di Sera" and "Delta Force Commando". He moved to the US and filmed several movies such as: "Jungle Book: Mowgly and Baloo", "Sabrina goes to Rome", "The Pit and the Pendulum" and the television series called "Conan the Adventurer". He worked mainly in action films, adventures and science fiction mostly in an International environment. Also, he worked as a second unit Cinematographer, taking care of the special effect, in "Pinocchio" a film by Roberto Benigni. In 1992 he was invited by an American film company "Full Moon ent." to Romania in order to open with Vlad Paunescu a big studio named "Castel Film". It is in this studio that he made 17 movies for Paramount and taught film Techniques to the Romanians. He is a member of the AIC (Society of Italian Cinematographers) which he is also a Members of the Board, also member of IMAGO (European Federation of Cinematographers).