Ferdinando Scarfiotti

Personal Info

Know For

Art

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-03-06 (53 years old)

Deathday

1994-04-30

Place of Birth

Potenza Picena, Marche, Italy

Ferdinando Scarfiotti

Biography

Ferdinando Scarfiotti (6 March 1941 – 30 April 1994) was an Italian art director and production designer. After graduating in architecture at the University of Rome, he was approached by Luchino Visconti, who asked him to design his stage production of La Traviata for the 1963 Spoleto Festival. After working in opera theatre for over a decade, director Bernardo Bertolucci asked Scarfiotti to work with him on the film The Conformist followed by Visconti's Death in Venice. In 1980 he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on a number of films, including American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982) and Scarface (1983). Scarfiotti won a BAFTA for V...

Acting

1965

Sandra

as (uncredited)

1969

Production

1983

Scarface

as Production Design

1987

The Last Emperor

as Production Design

1980

American Gigolo

as Production Design

1990

The Sheltering Sky

as Production Design

1974

Daisy Miller

as Production Design

1976

Sebastiane

as Thanks

1976

Barocco

as Production Design

1981

Honky Tonk Freeway

as Art Designer

1984

Thief of Hearts

as Art Designer

1972

Avanti!

as Art Direction

1971

Death in Venice

as Art Direction

1971

The Conformist

as Art Direction

1968

Listen, Let's Make Love

as Costume Design

1994

Love Affair

as In Memory Of

1968

Listen, Let's Make Love

as Art Direction

1971

Death in Venice

as Production Design

1994

Love Affair

as Production Design

1971

The Conformist

as Production Design

1985

My Man Adam

as Production Design

1992

Toys

as Production Design

1988

Fair Game

as Production Design

1985

Sting - Bring on the Night

as Production Design

1982

Cat People

as Production Design

1988

Fair Game

as Set Decoration

1965

Kiss the Other Sheik

as Production Design

1972

Last Tango in Paris

as Set Supervisor

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