Alfredo Angeli

Not to be confused with Alfredo de Angeli or Alfredo De Angelis.

Alfredo Angeli
Born(1927-08-07)7 August 1927
Livorno
Died25 November 2005(2005-11-25) (aged 78)
Rome
Occupation(s)film director, screenwriter

Alfredo Angeli (7 August 1927, in Livorno – 25 November 2005, in Rome[1]) was an Italian director and screenwriter.

Born in Livorno, Angeli entered the cinema industry in 1958, being the assistant director of Luigi Zampa in The City Stands Trial;[2] after having collaborated with, among others, Camillo Mastrocinque and Vittorio Cottafavi, in the early 1960s he started working as a director of commercial, and between the 1960s and the 1990s he directed over 3,000 commercials.[2] He made his feature film directorial debut in 1967, with the satirical The Strange Night,[2] which was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] In 1981 he directed a RAI TV-series of great success, Benedetta & Company.[2]

  1. ^ "Scomparso Alfredo Angeli sceneggiatore e regista" (in Italian). 26 November 2005.
  2. ^ a b c d Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
  3. ^ Fabrizio Borghini; Umberto Guidi; Chiara Sacchetti. Livorno al cinema. Informazione, 1997.