Ferdinando Baldi was an Italian

Italy

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 film director, film producer and screenwriter. He was born on 19 May 1927 in Cava dei Tirreni, in the Province of Salerno

Province of Salerno

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Career

He directed nearly 40 films during his career. He began his career directing films in the Sword and Sandal genre. He co-directed "David and Goliath" which starred Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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. Welles also appeared in Baldi's The Tartars. During this same time period Baldi was an associate producer on Mario Bava

Mario Bava

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's The Whip and the Body.

He wrote the following films:

• Maledetto soldato, Un (1988)
• Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission
  Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission
  Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission is a 1988 North Korean/Italian film, co-directed by Ferdinando Baldi and Pak Jong-ju under the pseudonym "Ted Kaplan". An action/spy film in the English language, Ten Zan was shot in North Korea using Western actors...
  
  (1988) (script as "Ted Kaplan")
• Warbus (1985)
• Compagna di viaggio, La (1980)
• Velluto nero (1976)
• Get Mean (1976)
• Geometra Primetti selvaggiamente Osvaldo (1976)
• Carambola, filotto... tutti in buca (1975)
• Carambola (1974)
• Vita lunga un giorno, Una (1973)
• Afyon oppio (1972)
• Pistolero dell'Ave Maria, Il (1969)
• Cinque figli di cane (1969)
• Odia il prossimo tuo (1968)
• Preparati la bara! (1968)
• Hermann der Cherusker - Die Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald (1967) (screenplay as "Ferdy Baldwin")
• Io non protesto, io amo (1967)
• Rita nel West (1967)
• All'ombra delle aquile (1966)
• Texas, addio (1966)
• Figlio di Cleopatra, Il (1964)
• Sfida al re di Castiglia (1964)
• Duel of Champions
  Duel of Champions
  Orazi e Curiazi is a 1961 film about the Roman legend of the Horatii, triplet brothers from Rome who fought a duel against the Curiatii, triplet brothers from Alba Longa in order to determine the outcome of a war between their two nations.This film was directed by Ferdinando Baldi and Terence Young...
  
  (1962)
• Spada del Cid, La (1962)
• David and Goliath
  David and Goliath (1960 film)
  David and Goliath is a 1960 Italian film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and Richard Pottier with sequences filmed in Israel and Yugoslavia.- Plot summary :...
  
  (1960)
• Assi alla ribalta (1954)
• Prezzo dell'onore, Il (1952)

Baldi appeared as himself in the documentary The Spaghetti West.