Ottavio Alessi
Italian film director, screenwriter and actor
About Ottavio Alessi
Lived 1919 – 1978 (aged 59). Ottavio Alessi was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
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 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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Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (1919–1978)
When was Ottavio Alessi born?
Ottavio Alessi was born on 1 January 1919 in Cammarata.
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Ottavio Alessi died on 26 April 1978 in Rome.
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Ottavio Alessi was a film director, screenwriter and actor.
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Ottavio Alessi was Italian.
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