Roberto Loyola(1937-2000)

Roberto Loyola, born 1937 in Rome, Lazio, Italy, was a producer, writer and director. He grew up during the boom of film producing Rome. Roberto Loyola was fearless and blunt, and with considerable patrimonial capital. He soon became the young big time producer and impresario. He cultivated his many contacts in the Italian world of performing arts. He recruited and cast great actors, models and artists to the Giallo film genre. A brand of cinema that made almost everyone use at least one alias. Roberto Loyola as a producer is probably best known for his lavish production "Colpo Rovente / The Syndicate - A Death in the Family" (1970). Roberto Loyola went bankrupt in 1974 during the post-production of "Rabid Dogs" (1974), directed by Mario Bava. Roberto Loyola passed away in the year 2000, in Lazio, Italy.