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- Gualtiero Jacopetti was born on September 4, 1919 in Barga, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for A Dog's Life (1962), Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971) and Mondo candido (1975). He was married to Jolanda Kaldaras. He died on August 17, 2011 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- SpouseJolanda Kaldaras(June 1955 - 1964) (annulled)
- A notorious playboy in his early years, the Italian journalist also maintained a lurid past. He once seduced an under aged gypsy girl despite the armed resistance of her gypsy tribe. He was also once sentenced to three months in a Hong Kong jail for for the abduction of two under aged Chinese girls.
- During World War II, he helped Allied troops in the invasion of Italy.
- Reportedly, he wanted to be buried next to the English actress Belinda Lee, a former girlfriend, who was killed in a car accident in 1961 when they were traveling together in the US. Jacopetti was injured in the crash.
- While co-directing and co-writing the documentary A Dog's Life (1962) [Women of the World] and filming in the States, he was in a car headed from Las Vegas to Los Angeles with fellow writer/director 'Paolo Cav. The speeding driver lost control, blew a tire, and the car flipped. Belinda Lee was instantly killed while the other suffered non-threatening injuries. Jacopetti was still hospitalized and did not attend Lee's funeral a week later.
- The veteran journalist was once the editor-in-chief of a leading Italian magazine.
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