Tony Amatolo, Location Manager and Producer with credits including Fame, Fools, violet and Two days in the valleyHe died. He was 76 years old.
Amatolo died Sunday of acute myeloid leukemia at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, his son Nico Amatolo said. Hollywood Reporter.
The native New Yorker also worked from 2000 to 2005 as vice president of production at Warner Bros., where he worked on series including er, West wing and Three o’clock. In his latest project, he produced, directed and co-wrote Survival on LES (2021), about gentrification and the changing culture of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
“Tony often compared production to walking a tightrope, balancing creativity, logistics and big personalities,” his family said. “It was a challenge he embraced wholeheartedly, bringing a passion for storytelling and unwavering support to every project throughout his career.”
Tony Eugene Amatolo Jr. was born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen, and attended Bauer Memorial High School before earning a bachelor’s degree in film and film and video studies from the City University of New York.
Shortly after graduating, he moved across the country to pursue a career in the entertainment industry and worked as a production assistant and then as a location manager for commercials, television, and films.
He was an associate producer on the 1980s TV series Fame and Miami Vice and location director on two notable films released in 1985, Richard Donner’s Fools And Steven Spielberg violet.
Amatullo was also a line producer Above suspicion (1995), starring Christopher Reeve and Joe Mantegna, and executive produced by John Herzfeld’s neo-noir Two days in the valley (1996) and in the reality series Reels Beverly Hills Pawn In 2013-14.
Survivors include his wife, Mariana, the daughter of an Argentine diplomat he met on a tour bus in Kyoto, Japan, and his two sons, Nico and Leonardo.
His family noted that “Tony found joy in everyday moments, gardening, making the perfect pizza at his home in Pasadena, taking long walks in midtown Manhattan, swimming daily, fishing and searching for antiques and hidden treasures at the many flea markets he visited around the world…. He will be greatly missed and remembered forever by all who loved him.”
