---
name: "Vito Rocco"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vito-rocco"
fi1m_id: "vito-rocco"
imdb_id: "nm0733713"
tmdb_id: 79895
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:27:18.947929+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."
---

# Vito Rocco

## Identity

Vito Rocco

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vito-rocco
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vito-rocco
- **IMDb ID:** nm0733713
- **TMDB ID:** 79895
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733713/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/79895

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 1985–2002
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 70 (1), 2000s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733713/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/79895

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Vito Rocco is a British film and television director and writer. He has directed episodes of the BBC continuing drama *EastEnders* (2017) and ITV's *Emmerdale* (2018), as well as the CBBC series *So Awkward* (2019).

His short films include the BAFTA- and Oscar-shortlisted *Goodbye, Cruel World* (2003). He also directed the feature film *Faintheart* (2008) and earlier television comedy series including *Suburban Shootout* (2006) and *The Last Chancers* (2004).

Rocco is a senior lecturer in television production at the University of Gloucestershire.

*Sources: eastenders.fandom.com, imdb.com, glos.ac.uk, curtisbrown.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Morvern Callar* (2002), Fi1m 82, as Swimming Pool Courier — [page](https://film.one/film/morvern-callar.md)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *So Awkward* (2015), series, Director
- *Faintheart* (2009), Director, Writer
- *The Last Chancers* (2004), series, Director
- *Goodbye, Cruel World* (2003), Director, Writer
- *Morvern Callar* (2002), as Swimming Pool Courier — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/morvern-callar.md)
- *The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz* (2000), as Bank Teller
- *Faith No More: Who Cares A Lot? The Greatest Videos* (1999), Director
- *Frottage!* (1994), Director
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

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