---
name: "Angelo Pizzo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/angelo-pizzo"
fi1m_id: "angelo-pizzo"
imdb_id: "nm0686233"
tmdb_id: 44848
wikidata_id: "Q4762939"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-04T19:58:39.947402+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Angelo Pizzo

## Identity

Angelo Pizzo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/angelo-pizzo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** angelo-pizzo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0686233
- **TMDB ID:** 44848
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4762939
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Pizzo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4762939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686233/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44848

Producer. Born 1 January 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Pizzo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4762939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686233/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44848

## Biography

Angelo Pizzo is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, graduated from Indiana University in 1971 with a degree in political science, and studied film at the University of Southern California.

Pizzo began his career in television development at Warner Bros. and later became vice president of feature films at Time Life Films. He wrote and produced *Hoosiers* (1986) and *Rudy* (1993), both directed by his Indiana University friend David Anspaugh; the former was inducted into the National Film Registry. Subsequent credits include writing *The Game of Their Lives* (2005) and *The Hill* (2023), and directing *My All American* (2015). He has also contributed to *Bleed for This* (2016).

Pizzo was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013. He returned to Bloomington in 2004 after many years in California.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, hoopshall.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hoosiers* (1986), Fi1m 79, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hoosiers.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Hill* (2023), Writer
- *Perfect in '76* (2017), Actor
- *Bleed for This* (2016), Story
- *My All American* (2015), Director, Writer
- *The Game of Their Lives* (2005), Co-Producer, Writer
- *Rudy* (1993), Co-Producer, Writer, Second Unit Director
- *Hoosiers* (1986), Producer, Writer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/hoosiers.md)
- *More Than Rivals*, Writer
- *Someone Saved My Life*, Director, Writer, Executive Producer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/angelo-pizzo