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name: "Luciano Tovoli"
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fi1m_id: "luciano-tovoli"
imdb_id: "nm0005907"
tmdb_id: 49069
wikidata_id: "Q1859330"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "30 October 1936"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:17:10.929693+00:00"
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# Luciano Tovoli

## Identity

Luciano Tovoli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/luciano-tovoli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** luciano-tovoli
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005907
- **TMDB ID:** 49069
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1859330
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Tovoli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1859330, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005907/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/49069

Cinematographer. Born 30 October 1936 in Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 30 October 1936, Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Italy
- **Active:** 1977–1990
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Tovoli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1859330, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005907/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/49069

## Biography

Luciano Tovoli is an Italian cinematographer. Born on 30 October 1936 in Massa Marittima, Grosseto, he studied foreign languages at the University of Pisa and graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.

He has worked as director of photography on films including *The Passenger* (1975), *Suspiria* (1977), *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), *Single White Female* (1992), *The Closet* (2001), *Murder by Numbers* (2002) and *Ruby & Quentin* (2003). Tovoli has collaborated repeatedly with directors Barbet Schroeder, Francis Veber and Ettore Scola. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers and the Italian Society of Cinematographers.

In 1983 Tovoli directed and co-wrote the film *Il Generale dell'armata morte*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), Fi1m 75, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/reversal-of-fortune.md)

## Complete filmography (85)

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

- *Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo* (2025), as Sé stesso
- *All the things that remain* (2024), Actor
- *Deep Argento* (2023), Actor
- *False Confessions* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Il padre di mia figlia* (2017), Director of Photography
- *A Jew Must Die* (2016), Director of Photography
- *Amnesia* (2015), Director of Photography
- *How Strange to be Named Federico* (2013), Director of Photography
- *Dracula 3D* (2012), Director of Photography
- *My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began* (2011), Director of Photography
- *Natale in Sudafrica* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Oceans* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Inju: The Beast in the Shadow* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Hidden Love* (2007), Director of Photography
- *Ruby & Quentin* (2003), Director of Photography
- *La regina degli scacchi* (2002), Director of Photography, Producer
- *Murder by Numbers* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Ti voglio bene Eugenio* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Deceit* (2001), Director of Photography
- *The Closet* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Titus* (1999), Director of Photography
- *The Dinner Game* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Desperate Measures* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Jaguar* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Before and After* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Kiss of Death* (1995), Director of Photography
- *The Teddy Bear* (1994), Director of Photography
- *Monkey Trouble* (1994), Director of Photography
- *Mario, Maria and Mario* (1993), Director of Photography
- *Cyber Eden* (1992), Director of Photography
- *Single White Female* (1992), Director of Photography
- *The Voyage of Captain Fracassa* (1990), Director of Photography
- *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), Director of Photography — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/reversal-of-fortune.md)
- *Voyage in Time* (1990), Director of Photography
- *Vanille fraise* (1989), Director of Photography
- *What Time Is It?* (1989), Director of Photography
- *Splendor* (1989), Director of Photography
- *Priceless Beauty* (1988), Director of Photography
- *Big* (1987), Director of Photography
- *The Fugitives* (1986), Director of Photography
- *Who's Afraid of Dracula?* (1985), Director of Photography
- *La Cage aux Folles 3* (1985), Director of Photography
- *Police* (1985), Director of Photography
- *Bianca* (1984), Director of Photography
- *The General of the Dead Army* (1983), Director of Photography, Director
- *Tenebre* (1982), Director of Photography
- *Beyond the Door* (1982), Director of Photography
- *The Roaring Forties* (1982), Director of Photography
- *The Mystery of Oberwald* (1981), Director of Photography
- *Bianco, rosso e Verdone* (1981), Director of Photography
- *In the Pope's Eye* (1980), Director of Photography
- *Il resto del Pap'occhio* (1980), Cinematography
- *Adoption* (1979), Director of Photography
- *Where Are You Going on Holiday?* (1978), Director of Photography
- *Noccioline a colazione* (1978), Director of Photography
- *Bye Bye Monkey* (1978), Director of Photography
- *Behind Convent Walls* (1978), Director of Photography
- *This Is the Night* (1977), Director of Photography
- *Suspiria* (1977), Director of Photography
- *The Desert of the Tartars* (1976), Director of Photography
- *The Last Woman* (1976), Director of Photography
- *The Sunday Woman* (1975), Director of Photography
- *La vita in gioco* (1975), Director of Photography
- *Leonor* (1975), Director of Photography
- *The Peaceful Age* (1975), Director of Photography
- *The Passenger* (1975), Director of Photography
- *Weak Spot* (1975), Director of Photography
- *Snapshot of a Crime* (1975), Director of Photography
- *L'altro Dio* (1975), Director of Photography
- *Bread and Chocolate* (1974), Director of Photography
- *Dirty Weekend* (1973), as Tovoli, TV Journalist (uncredited) · Director of Photography
- *Diary of a School Teacher* (1973), series, Director of Photography
- *Diary of a Teacher* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Chung Kuo: China* (1972), Director of Photography
- *We Won't Grow Old Together* (1972), Director of Photography
- *Io non spezzo... rompo* (1971), Director of Photography
- *Tulips of Haarlem* (1970), Camera Operator
- *Una macchia rosa* (1970), Director of Photography
- *Four Came to Kill Sartana* (1969), Director of Photography
- *The Uninvited* (1969), Director of Photography
- *Radiografia della miseria* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Almost a Man* (1966), Camera Operator
- *Seasons of Our Love* (1966), Camera Operator
- *Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow* (1963), Assistant Camera
- *Bandits of Orgosolo* (1961), Camera Operator

## Gallery

- ![Visionaria 2006. Luciano Tovoli in giuria](https://film.one/media/person/77745/gallery-df3170af7c93.jpg) Visionaria 2006. Luciano Tovoli in giuria — opera propria, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/2006-Luciano_Tovoli.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Luciano Tovoli](https://film.one/media/person/77745/gallery-a78d90f1fb86.jpg) Luciano Tovoli — Paul Katzenberger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Luciano_Tovoli.JPG/1280px-Luciano_Tovoli.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Luciano Tovoli](https://film.one/media/person/77745/gallery-9235fdc09d21.jpg) Luciano Tovoli — Image via TMDB

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