Luigi Cozzi

Luigi Cozzi (born 7 September 1947 in Busto Arsizio, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. At a young age, Luigi became a fan of science fiction and began his career as an overseas correspondent for Western film magazines.

After directing his first film The Tunnel Under the World (1969), Luigi befriended director Dario Argento and began working with him in film and television. He received screenplay credits for Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) and The Five Days (1973), special effects credits for Phenomena (1985), and was second united director for Two Evil Eyes (1990) and The Stendhal Syndrome (1996).

Film directed by Luigi himself include The Killer Must Kill Again (1975), Starcrash (1979), Contamination (1980), Hercules (1983), Monster Shark (1984), Hercules II (1985), Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989), Paganini Horror (1989), and The Black Cat (1990).

I have met Luigi twice. The first time was in the shop he co-owns with Dario Argento, Profondo Rosso, when I visited Rome in October 2024. I bought a book co-written by Luigi, which he kindly signed for me. I met him for the second time at Weird Worcester in July 2026 where he signed a Contamination Blu-ray sleeve for me.

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Profondo Rosso Store

Blu-ray sleeve, also signed by Ian McCulloch

Meeting Luigi for the second time in Worcester

Outside the Profondo Rosso shop in Rome

Meeting Luigi at Profondo Rosso

Enzo G. Castellari

Enzo G. Castellari (born Enzo Girolami; 29 July 1938 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.

He directed a large number of Italian films in various genres, many of which have become (cult) classics. These include Eagles over London (1969), High Crime (1973), Street Law (1974), The Big Racket (1976), The Heroin Busters (1977), The Inglorious Bastards (1978), The Shark Hunter (1979), Day of the Cobra (1980), The Last Shark (1981), 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982), The New Barbarians (1983), and Escape from the Bronx (1983).

I met Mr Castellari at the Weird Worcester convention in July 2025, where he signed three Blu-ray sleeves for me.

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Street Law Blu-ray sleeve

The Last Shark Blu-ray sleeve

The New Barbarians Blu-ray sleeve,
also signed By Fred Williamson

Sergio Martino

Sergio Martino (born 19 July 1938 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre. Martino is the brother of the late producer Luciano Martino (who died in 2013). They collaborated frequently in their respective professions. Their grandfather was director Gennaro Righelli.

I know him best for genre films such as The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971), The Case of the Scorpion's Tale (1971), All the Colours of the Dark (1972), Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972), Torso (1973), The Violent Professionals (1973), Silent Action (1975), The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Great Alligator (1979), 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983), and Hands of Steel (1986).

I met Mr Martino at the Weird Worcester convention in June 2025.

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Slave of the Cannibal God (aka Mountain of 
the Cannibal God) Blu-ray sleeve

Hands of Steel (aka Fists of Steel) Blu-ray sleeve

Lamberto Bava

Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film director. He is the son of legendary director Mario Bava. I know him for films such as Macabre (1980), A Blade in the Dark (1983), Blastfighter (1984), Monster Shark (1984), Demons (1985), Demons 2 (1986), Delirium (1987), and Body Puzzle (1992).

I met Mr Bava at the Weird Worcester Convention in June 2025.

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Demons Blu-ray sleeve also signed by
Geretta Geretta

Blastfighter Blu-ray sleeve

Ruggero Deodato

Ruggero Deodato (born 7 May 1939 in Potenza, Basilicata, Italy; died 29 December 2022 in Rome Italy) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, who is probably best know for the brutal horror film Cannibal Holocaust (1980). However, his career spanned a wide range of other genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco, and science fiction. Other notable films include Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976), Last Cannibal World (1977), The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), Cut And Run (1984), and The Barbarians (1987).

Ruggero signed the Cannibal Holocaust Blu-Ray sleeve for me when he appeared at London Film & Comic Con in July 2019 (I was not able to attend this event but used the Showmasters pre-order service).

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Blu-Ray sleeve also signed by actress Francesca Ciardi

Michael B. Jordan

Michael Bakari Jordan (born 9 February 1987 in Santa Ana, California, USA) is an American actor and director. He is known for his film roles as shooting victim Oscar Grant in the drama Fruitvale Station (2013), boxer Donnie Creed in Creed (2015), and Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018), all three of which were written and directed by Ryan Coogler. Jordan reprised the role of Creed in Creed II (2018), and Killmonger in What If...? (2021), and is set to star and make his directorial debut in Creed III (2023).

I purchased the signed photo below from Big Screen Autographs at Comic Con Scotland in Edinburgh in October 2022.

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Phillip Rhee

Phillip Rhee (born September 7, 1960) is a South Korean-American martial artist, actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer, most famous for his role as Tommy Lee in Best of the Best (1989, also producer and storywrite) and its sequels Best of the Best II (1993, also producer), Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995, also director and producer), and Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998, also director, producer and screenwriter).

I purchased Phillip's autograph from RACC Trusted Seller #108 Ilya Zeta in November 2021.

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As Tommy Lee in Best of the Best II; also signed by Ralf Moeller

Ted Kotcheff

William Theodore Kotcheff (born 7 April 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; died 10 April 2025 in Nuevo Nayarit, Nayarit, Mexico) was a Canadian film and television director and producer, known primarily for his work on British and American television productions such as Armchair Theatre and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. I knew him best for directing the original Rambo movie First Blood (1982). He directed many other films including Wake in Fright (1971), Uncommon Valor (1983), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), North Dallas Forty (1979), Switching Channels (1988), Winter People (1989), Weekend at Bernie's (1989), and The Shooter (1995).

I purchased Mr Kotcheff's autograph from RACC dealer Ron Dabitz who obtained the autograph at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany on 15 September 2011.

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Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos (born 24 February 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor, director, producer, and activist. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in the television series Miami Vice (1984–1989), actor in and director of American Me (1992), William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–09), teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), and Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982), and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017). In 2018, he played the father of two members of an outlaw motorcycle club in the FX series Mayans MC.

Mr Olmos signed my Miami Vice 8x10 through the mail in February 2016. I finally got to meet him at Comic Con Scotland Aberdeen in March 2026, where he signed my American Me DVD sleeve.

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Battlestar Galactica Q&A panel, also with Jamie Bamber

Jonathan Frakes

Jonathan Scott Frakes (born 19 August 1952 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American actor and director. Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) and subsequent films: Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).

I met Jonathan at the Entertainment Media Show in London in October 2012.

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