- He was also active in Spanish cinema. He shot Francisco Rovira Beleta's film Los Tarantos, which was nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards.
- In 1967, he made his narrative film directorial debut with another Spaghetti Western, "Bandidos". He went on to direct a dozen more films, including poliziotteschi, giallo, horror, and erotic films.
- Dallamano began in the 1940s as cameraman for documentaries and commercials, and after the war he became a cinematographer, specializing in adventure films.
- Dallamano died at age 59 in a car accident, several months after the release of his film "Colt 38 Special Squad" (1976). His next film was intended to be "Red Rings of Fear", which was ultimately directed by Alberto Negrin. Dallamano retained a posthumous screenwriting credit.
- He is best known for his work on Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, and for directing several giallo and poliziotteschi films during the 1970s.
- His best known work as a cinematographer were Sergio Leone's landmark Spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). Christopher Frayling notes Dallamano's contributions to those films' distinctive visual style, including the use of widescreen compositions and Renaissance-style lighting effects in close-ups.
- Throughout his career, Dallamano was sometimes credited under the aliases Max Dillman (also spelled Dillmann) and Jack Dalmas.
- He shot in 1969 the movie "Venus in Fur", a heavily censored film that was released in Italy only in 1973, with the title" Venere nuda" , to be finally re-released and heavily cut with the title"Le malizie di Venere".
- Massimo Dallamano was an Italian cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter.
- In 1959, he co-directed the travel documentary Tierra mágica, which was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
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