Ottavio Alessi
Ottavio Alessi (1 January 1919 - 28 April 1978) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.
Ottavio Alessi
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- Name
- Ottavio Alessi
- Born
- 1 January 1919
- Birthplace
- Cammarata, Italy
- Occupation
- Screenwriter Director Ottavio Alessi (1 January 1919 - 28 April 1978) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.
- Died
- 1978 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Languages
- Italian
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• Name — Ottavio Alessi • Born — 1 January 1919 • Birthplace — Cammarata, Italy • Occupation — Screenwriter Director Ottavio Alessi (1 January 1919 - 28 April 1978) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.
Life and career
Life and career
Born in Cammarata, Province of Agrigento, Alessi entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director. In 1945 he started an intense career as a screenwriter, alternating between genre films and art films and collaborating with Pietro Germi, Franco Rossi, Folco Quilici and Luciano Salce, among others. He also directed two films in the 1960s.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Director and screenwriter • What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964) (a parody of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?). • Top Sensation (1969) • Screenwriter • The Testimony (1946) • Friends for Life (1955) • A Woman Alone (1956) • Juke box urli d'amore (1959) • Wild Cats on the Beach (1959) • The Mongols (1961) • Charge of the Black Lancers (1962) • La ragazzola (1965) • Bali (1970) • Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976) • La Bidonata (1977) • Emanuelle in America (1977) • The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
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