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Mario Zampi

Italian film producer and director (1903–1963)

Summary

Italian film producer and director (1903–1963)

Field	Value
name	Mario Zampi
image	Mario_Zampi.jpg
birth_name
birth_date	1 November 1903
birth_place	Sora, Italy
death_date
death_place	London, England
occupation	Film director and producer
known_for	co-founding Two Cities Films

Mario Zampi (1 November 19032 December 1963) was an Italian film producer and director. A co-founder of Two Cities Films, a British production company, he is most closely associated with British comedies of the 1950s. He later formed his own film production companies, Anglofilm and Mario Zampi Productions.

Biography

Zampi began his career as an actor in Italy at the age of 17. By 1930, he was working for Warner Bros. as a film editor in London. In 1937, he and compatriot Filippo Del Giudice founded Two Cities Films.

While the company was noted for such serious films as In Which We Serve, Henry V, and Hamlet, Zampi is most remembered for comedies. He made his mark with such films as Laughter in Paradise (1951), The Naked Truth (1957), and Too Many Crooks (1959), often in the dual role of director and producer. He made Naked Truth and Too Many Crooks at Rank.

Zampi and Del Giudice had a long feud which had its origins in both men being interned during World War II. Zampi became wealthy, while Del Giudice was broke; in 1958, Del Giudice was living in a tiny room in London but neither would say what caused the feud.

Filmography

:Director and producer unless otherwise indicated.

** (1936) producer
13 Men and a Gun (1938)
French Without Tears (1940) producer
Spy for a Day (1940)
Freedom Radio aka A Voice in the Night (1941) producer (uncredited)
The Phantom Shot (1947)
Third Time Lucky (1948) producer
The Fatal Night (1948)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) producer
Shadow of the Past (1950)
Come Dance with Me (1950)
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Top Secret, aka Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow (1952)
I Chose Love aka Ho scelto l'amore (1953) director
Happy Ever After, aka Tonight's the Night (1954)
Now and Forever (1956)
The Naked Truth, aka Your Past Is Showing (1957)
Too Many Crooks (1959)
Bottoms Up (1960)
Five Golden Hours, aka Cinque ore in contanti (1961) director

References

Kay Weniger. Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2001,

References

"Mario Zampi". BFI.
"BFI Screenonline: Laughter in Paradise (1951)".
"Mario Zampi | Britmovie | Home of British Films".
"People search results for "mario zampi" - AllMovie". AllMovie.
"Mario Zampi".
(2003). "British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference". Oxford University Press.
Vagg, Stephen. (14 June 2025). "Forgotten British Film Studios: Rank Organisation Films – 1957".
Abbott, Bromley. (9 February 1958). "The rich Zampi keeps 18 years vow of silence on the not-so-rich Giudice". Sunday Dispatch.

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