Giannetto De Rossi
Giannetto De Rossi (8 August 1942 – 11 April 2021) was Italian makeup and special effects artist for motion pictures. His career included work for several high-profile directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, and David Lynch; as well as collaborations with cult horror filmmakers Lucio Fulci and Alexandre Aja. He was known particularly for his highly-detailed and realistic prosthetic appliances, most visible in his horror output. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Effects for the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor (1987).
One of his first special FX roles was as make-up artist for Joe D'Amato, whose film Emanuelle in America required detailed special FX for the notorious snuff film sequences. The gruesome effects produced by De Rossi, which included a woman's breasts being hacked off and multiple floggings, were so convincing that many thought them real snuff film scenes, and one actress complained that she had been traumatised by the effects.
Early in his career, De Rossi worked with a number of well-known Italian directors, including Sergio Leone and Federico Fellini. A particularly notable collaboration was with Lucio Fulci on his horror film Zombi 2. De Rossi also worked with Fulci in two other films: The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery.
Dino De Laurentiis hired De Rossi to create the on-set practical effects for two films in Mexico which he was producing, Dune and Conan the Destroyer. De Rossi created a number of memorable effects in the two films, including the fetus-shaped Spice Guild Navigator seen floating in a tank in Dune and the Dagoth monster suit worn by André the Giant in Conan the Destroyer.
In the late 1980s he created the special makeup effects on Rambo III. For the scene in which Rambo heals himself by igniting gunpowder inside of a torso bullet wound, De Rossi rigged a device which caused flame to burst from both Sylvester Stallone's stomach and back at once. Stallone was so impressed by De Rossi's work that he hired him again for the make-up effects for Daylight, which was shot in Rome and put Stallone's son Sage Stallone in contact with Lucio Fulci.
De Rossi created the title monster in the film Killer Crocodile, and directed the film's sequel, Killer Crocodile 2.
He is also notable as the designer of the mask used in the film The Man in the Iron Mask.
De Rossi continued creating FX for both Italian and American cinema, until his death on 11 April 2021 (coincidentally the same day as fellow Lucio Fulci collaborator Enzo Sciotti).
Source: Article "Giannetto De Rossi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Filme (77)
Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film King
2020 · self
The Emmanuelle Effect
2020 · Self
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011 · Self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008 · Self
Hanging Shadows
2007 · Self
Quelli del Maledetto Treno Blindato - Making of 'Inglorious Bastards'
2007 · Self
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006 · Self
Die Nibelungen
2004 · Makeup Designer
Building a Better Zombi: Retrospective of Zombi 2
2004 · Self
Modigliani - Ein Leben in Leidenschaft
2004 · Makeup Supervisor
High Tension
2003 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Uprising - Der Aufstand
2001 · Makeup Department Head
Amici ahrarara
2001 · Makeup Department Head
Harrison's Flowers
2000 · Makeup Department Head
Vatel
2000 · Makeup Supervisor
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 · Makeup Supervisor
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998 · Makeup Supervisor
Kull the Conqueror
1997 · Makeup Supervisor
Daylight
1996 · Makeup Supervisor
DragonHeart
1996 · Makeup Supervisor
Catherine the Great
1996 · Makeup Supervisor
Tummy
1995 · Screenplay, Director
The Inner Circle
1992 · Key Makeup Artist
Killer Crocodile 2
1990 · Screenplay, Director
Dr. M
1990 · Makeup Artist
Killer Crocodile
1989 · Makeup Artist
Cy-Warrior
1989 · Writer, Director
Rambo III
1988 · Makeup Artist
Dune
1984 · Makeup Artist
Conan the Destroyer
1984 · Makeup Designer
Raiders of Atlantis
1983 · Makeup Effects, Makeup Artist
State buoni se potete
1983 · Makeup Artist
La traviata
1982 · Makeup Artist
Piranha II: The Spawning
1982 · Special Effects Supervisor, Makeup Designer, Prosthetic Supervisor
The House by the Cemetery
1981 · Makeup Artist, Special Effects, Special Effects Makeup Artist
The Beyond
1981 · Makeup Artist, VFX Artist
Cannibal Apocalypse
1980 · Makeup Artist
Zombie Flesh Eaters
1979 · Makeup Artist
The Humanoid
1979 · Makeup Artist
King of the Gypsies
1978 · Makeup Artist
Holocaust 2000
1977 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Emanuelle in America
1977 · Visual Effects
Fellini's Casanova
1976 · Makeup Artist
Evil Thoughts
1976 · Makeup Artist
1900
1976 · Key Makeup Artist
ABCinema
1975 · Self
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
1974 · Visual Effects, Makeup Artist
Come Home and Meet My Wife
1974 · Makeup Artist
The Last Four Days
1974 · Makeup Artist
Ash Wednesday
1973 · Makeup Artist
The Valdez Horses
1973 · Makeup Artist
The Funny Face of the Godfather
1973 · Makeup Artist
The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire
1972 · Makeup Supervisor
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
1972 · Makeup Artist
The Eroticist
1972 · Makeup Artist
The Valachi Papers
1972 · Makeup Artist
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
1971 · Makeup Designer
Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
1971 · Makeup Artist
Io non spezzo... rompo
1971 · Makeup Artist
Waterloo
1970 · Makeup Artist
When Women Had Tails
1970 · Makeup Artist
The Invincible Six
1970 · Makeup Designer
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Makeup Artist
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967 · Makeup Supervisor
Doctor Faustus
1967 · Makeup Artist
The Harem
1967 · Makeup Artist
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · Makeup Artist
Wake Up and Die
1966 · Makeup Artist
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966 · Makeup Artist
The Possessed
1965 · Makeup Artist
Samson and Gideon
1965 · Makeup Artist
Corpse for the Lady
1964 · Makeup Artist
The Maniacs
1964 · Makeup Artist
The Thursday
1964 · Makeup Artist
The Little Nuns
1963 · Makeup Artist
Target: Girls
1963 · Makeup Artist
The Hours of Love
1963 · Makeup Artist
