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Massimo Pupillo(1929-1999)

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Massimo Pupillo was born on 7 January 1929 in San Severo, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Bloody Pit of Horror (1965), Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965) and Love: The Great Unknown (1969). He died on 12 December 1999 in Rome, Italy.
BornJanuary 7, 1929
DiedDecember 12, 1999(70)
BornJanuary 7, 1929
DiedDecember 12, 1999(70)
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Known for

Femi Benussi and Mickey Hargitay in Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Bloody Pit of Horror
4.5
  • Director(as Max Hunter)
  • 1965
Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
5.5
  • Director(as Ralph Zucker)
  • 1965
Love: The Great Unknown (1969)
Love: The Great Unknown
  • Director(as Max Hunter)
  • 1969
Sajana, l'audace impresa
  • Director
  • 1981

Credits

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Director

  • Sajana, l'audace impresa
    • Director
    • 1981
  • Giovane Italia, Giovane Europa - Maeternick
    TV Movie
    • Director
    • 1970
  • Love: The Great Unknown (1969)
    Love: The Great Unknown
    • Director (as Max Hunter)
    • 1969
  • Django Kills Softly (1967)
    Django Kills Softly
    5.0
    • Director (as Max Hunter)
    • 1967
  • Lady Morgan's Vengeance (1965)
    Lady Morgan's Vengeance
    6.2
    • Director (as Max Hunter)
    • 1965
  • Femi Benussi and Mickey Hargitay in Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
    Bloody Pit of Horror
    4.5
    • Director (as Max Hunter)
    • 1965
  • Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
    Terror-Creatures from the Grave
    5.5
    • Director (as Ralph Zucker)
    • 1965
  • Gli amici dell'isola
    Short
    • Director
    • 1961
  • Teddy, l'orsacchiotto vagabondo
    • Director
    • 1961

Writer

  • Love: The Great Unknown (1969)
    Love: The Great Unknown
    • Writer (as Max Hunter)
    • 1969
  • Franco Franchi, Mickey Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield, and Lucia Modugno in Primitive Love (1964)
    Primitive Love
    4.2
    • story (as D.M. Pupillo)
    • 1964

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Paid in Blood (1971)
    Paid in Blood
    5.1
    • director: english version (as Ralph Zucker)
    • 1971

Personal details

  • Alternative names
    • Max Hunter
  • Born
    • January 7, 1929
    • San Severo, Italy
  • Died
    • December 12, 1999
    • Rome, Italy(Undisclosed)
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Interview

Did you know

  • Trivia
    After completing the direction of his horror film Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965), he was unsatisfied with the final result, and allowed the film's producer, Ralph Zucker, to take the director's credit instead. This has led people to confuse Pupillo and Zucker for one another, and when Zucker died in 1982, some thought that Pupillo had died, which is incorrect.

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