Marcello Gatti

Marcello Gatti (9 February 1924 – 26 November 2013) was an Italian cinematographer.

Born in Rome, Gatti started as a film operator in the early 1940s, then debuted as a cinematographer in 1953. In 1943, he was sentenced to five years in prison, then turned into exile, for having defaced a portrait of Benito Mussolini hung on the walls of Cinecittà. He also worked, among others, with Roman Polanski, Nanni Loy, Damiano Damiani, Eriprando Visconti, Luigi Zampa, George P. Cosmatos and Sergio Corbucci. Gatti has long been the president of the Italian Association of Cinematographers (Aic).