Camillo Tanio Boccia (15 June 1911 – 12 March 1982), was an Italian film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the early 1970s.
[1] Born in Potenza, Basilicata, he started as a dancer and choreographer in Rome in the 1930s, later moving on to act in regional, dialectal stage plays.
[2] He had a small role in Variety Lights (1951) by Alberto Lattuada and Federico Fellini, his first and sole performance as a film actor.
His films, generally rated as B or Z movies,[3] always met negative reception and Boccia was often mocked in the Cinecittà environment, earning the nickname of "Italian Ed Wood" after his death.
He was also labeled as the "Italian Roger Corman" for his ability to make a movie in a short time with low financial resources.