Born in
Amatrice,
Province of Rieti, Di Giacomo started his career as assistant of
Aldo Tonti. For many years he worked as an operator, notably collaborating to
Joseph L. Mankiewicz's
Cleopatra,
Vittorio De Sica's
Marriage Italian Style and
Sergio Leone's
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and
Once Upon a Time in the West. He also worked, among others, with
Nanni Moretti,
Ettore Scola,
Marco Bellocchio,
Michael Radford,
Bernardo Bertolucci,
Dino Risi,
Nikita Mikhalkov and
Mario Monicelli. In his late years, he was professor of cinematography at the ACT Multimedia Academy in
Cinecittà. He died on 30 April 2016, at the age of 83. == Selected filmography ==