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Tony Amatullo, an subordinate shaper connected TV bid including Fame and Miami Vice and later an exec shaper connected nan Reelz 2013 bid Beverly Hills Pawn arsenic good arsenic a accumulation executive astatine Warner Bros., died Sunday, May 3, successful New York City from acute myeloid leukemia aft being diagnosed past August. He was 76.
His decease was announced by family.
Born Anthony Eugene Amatullo Jr. connected July 14, 1949, successful nan Hell’s Kitchen vicinity of Manhattan, wherever he was raised, Amatullo earned a bachelor’s grade successful Film, Cinema, and Video Studies from nan City University of New York earlier relocating to Los Angeles to prosecute his intermezo career. He learned nan business from nan crushed up arsenic a accumulation adjunct and past a location head for commercials, television, and film.
Amatullo past built a agelong profession arsenic a statement and executive shaper and personnel of nan Directors Guild of America. His credits included activity arsenic location head connected Steven Spielberg’s The Goonies (1985) and The Color Purple (both 1985). He served arsenic subordinate shaper connected nan deed philharmonic tv bid Fame and nan bull bid Miami Vice.
As Vice President of Production astatine Warner Bros. from 2000 to 2005, he worked connected ER, The West Wing, Third Watch and nan aviator section of Nip/Tuck, among others. Later successful his career, he would spell connected to champion independent tv and movie projects, pinch credits including nan movie Two Days successful nan Valley and nan reality bid Beverly Hills Pawn, serving arsenic executive shaper connected both.
His last task was 2021’s Surviving connected LES, a melodramatic movie group amidst nan gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which he produced, directed and co-wrote.
Amatullo is survived by woman Mariana Amatullo and sons Nico Amatullo and Leo Amatullo.
