Career
Born in Rome, Piazzoli began working for the Italian movie industry in the early 1960s as a cameraman, under the direction of Vittorio De Sica, Damiano Damiani, Marco Ferreri, Florestano Vancini, Mauro Bolognini, Dino Risi and Pasquale Festa Campanile. As a cinematographer he has worked on such films as The Last Snows of Spring and as co-director (under the pseudonym Robert Barrett) on Beyond the Door and Tentacles directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis. He also co-directed Laure, together with Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane, Emmanuelle Arsan"s husband.
His filmography also includes Number Place to Hide, Over the Lincolnshire, Sposi, Fratelli e Sorelle and Laguna.