Michele Soavi

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Nationality: Italian
Birthdate: 00/00/1957
Birthplace: Milan, Italy

biography

This handsome, blue-eyed, blond actor-turned-filmmaker first ventured behind the camera under the bloodshot eye of celebrated Italian horror maestro Dario Argento. Soavi began acting in 1976 but his classic good looks consigned him to playing Americans in cheap Italian knockoffs of Hollywood genre movies, notably in the absurdly gory work of Lucio Fulci. His fortunes changed upon meeting Argento who was then casting for "Inferno" (1980). Soavi lost the part but gained a mentor when hired as an assistant director on Argento's "Tenebrae/Unsane" (1982). Horror proved both hospitable and Continued

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1996
Director
1996
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milestones

Year
Milestone
1976 
Began film acting career
1980 
Met Dario Argento while auditioning for a role in the director's "Inferno" (the part went to Gabriele Lavia)
1982 
Served as assistant director on Argento's "Tenebrae/Unsane"
1985 
Directed the music video for Bill Wyman's song "Valley" from the soundtrack of Argento's "Creepers" (in which he worked as an actor and assistant director)
 
Directed the documentary "Dario Argento's World of Horror"
Continued

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