Spaghetti Western Directors, Screenwriter, Cinematographers

Spaghetti Western Director – Cédric Apikian

Cédric Apikian was born in Marseille, France in 1971. He holds a Master's degree in cinema and is a screenwriter, director and producer. He has written and directed numerous music videos, music documentaries, TV series, short and medium-length films, most of which have won awards and been broadcast around the world (France, USA, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Spain, Germany...). He made his first foray into the world of comics in 2013 with the audiovisual show pifPAFpoum dedicated to the 9th art, with a lot of humorous sketches and unexpected guests. In 2019, he released his first album with Casterman La ballade du soldat Odawaa with Christian Rossi on the drawings. The 3rd Kamera with Denis Rodier (La Bombe) is his first graphic novel with Glénat editions. Today he lives between Paris and Marseille.

Apikian has directed two Euro-westerns the 2007 film short “Where the Indian Lies” and a 2011 TV project called ‘The Adventures of One-Eyed Diaz the Clear Sighted One’.

APIKIAN Cédric [1971, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France -     ] – producer, director, author, writer.

Where the Indian Lies – 2007

The Adventures of One-Eyed Diaz the Clear Sighted One (TV) 2011

Spaghetti Western Screenwriter – Carlo Alberto Alfieri

Italian producer, production manager and writer, Carlo Alberto Alfieri Produced two films in 1988 and 1989, was a production manager on one film in 1992 and wrote screenplays for three films between 1973 and 1988, two of which were Spaghetti westerns: “Shanghai Joe in 1973 and co-wrote the screenplay for “The Return of Shanghai Joe” in 1974 with Bitto Albertini (Adalberto Albertini).

ALFIERI, Carlo Alberto [Italian] – producer, production manager, writer.

Shanghai Joe - 1973

The Return of Shanghai Joe – 1974 (co)

 

Spaghetti Western Cinematographer – Franco Appetito

Franco Appetito is often credited as the cinematographer on the 1972 Spaghetti western “Il giustiziere di Dio” (The Judgment of God) although the IMDb states he was the still photographer and gives no credit listing for cinematographer.

Appetito worked on eleven films between 1973 and 2000. Besides “The Judgment of God” with William Berger. he’s also listed as still photographer on 1973’s “Six Bounty Killers for a Massacre” starring Robert Woods.

I can find no biographical information on him.

APPETITO, Franco [Italian] – cinematographer, cameraman.

The Judgment of God – 1972