Born in Rome, son of director Marino Girolami and brother of director Enzo G. Castellari, Girolami made his film debut at 18 with a role of weight in Fratelli d'Italia by Fausto Saraceni, then appeared in a large number of films, sometimes as main actor, working among others with Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini, Mauro Bolognini and Giuseppe De Santis.
He has since become a clear favorite of several of Italy's top directors, appearing in Tonino Cervi's Ritratto di borghesia in nero (1977), Mauro Bolognini's La Dame Aux Camelias (1981), with Isabelle Huppert, and Pupi Avati's Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze (1989), to name only a few.
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.
Mauro Bolognini | Mauro Pawlowski | Fra Mauro | Mauro Picotto | Mauro Giuliani | Mauro Mueller | Mauro Malavasi | Mauro Icardi | Mauro Forghieri | Garry Mauro | Mauro Scocco | Mauro Refosco | Mauro Ranallo | Mauro Poggia | Mauro Pagani | Mauro Nespoli | Mauro Diniz | Mauro Caballero | Tullio De Mauro | San Mauro di Saline | Mauro Persiani | Mauro Nesti | Mauro Moretti | Mauro Galvão | Mauro Galvano | Mauro Fiore | Mauro Camoranesi | Mauro Andrés Caballero | Mauro Almeida | Fra Mauro (crater) |
Ippolito continued his activity as film producer with La venexiana (1986) directed by Mauro Bolognini and his television activity with works like La romana by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Gli indifferenti, miniseries by Bolognini, Disperatamente Giulia by Enrico Maria Salerno, Donna d'onore by Stuart Margolin, The Seventh Scroll (Il settimo papiro) by Kevin Condor and Il terzo segreto di Fatima by Alfredo Peyretti.