Anchise Brizzi

Anchise Brizzi (5 October 1887 – 29 February 1964) was an Italian cinematographer.^[1]

Anchise Brizzi
Born	(1887-10-05)5 October 1887 Poppi, Arezzo
Died	29 February 1964(1964-02-29) (aged 76) Rome, Italy
Years active	1914-1963

Life and career

Born in Poppi, Arezzo, Brizzi attended the regio istituto tecnico, specializing in optics and photography, then entered the cinema industry in the early 1910s.^[2] He won the best cinematography award at the 1948 Locarno International Film Festival for the film The Charterhouse of Parma directed by Christian-Jaque.^[3] He worked as cinematographer in more than 100 productions, including Vittorio De Sica's Shoeshine, Orson Welles' Othello, Alessandro Blasetti's 1860, Gregory Ratoff's Black Magic, Mario Camerini's Il signor Max.

Selected filmography

• The Bread Peddler (1916)
• The Painting of Osvaldo Mars (1921)
• Maciste's American Nephew (1924)
• Pleasure Train (1924)
• Maciste against the Sheik (1926)
• Maciste in the Lion's Cage (1926)
• The Devil's Lantern (1931)
• Palio (1932)
• The Telephone Operator (1932)
• Tourist Train (1933)
• The Haller Case (1933)
• 1860 (1934)
• Port (1934)
• Loyalty of Love (1934)
• The Joker King (1935)
• The Phantom Gondola (1936)
• Lo squadrone bianco (1936)
• The Happy Road (1936)
• Beggar's Wedding (1936)
• Il signor Max (1937)
• The Two Misanthropists (1937)
• Naples of Olden Times (1938)
• The Two Mothers (1938)
• Dora Nelson (1939)
• Naples Will Never Die (1939)
• The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
• Heartbeat (1939)
• Department Store (1939)
• Beyond Love (1940)
• Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
• Eternal Melodies (1940)
• Two on a Vacation (1940)
• The Betrothed (1941)
• The Two Orphans (1942)
• Sealed Lips (1942)
• Odessa in Flames (1942)
• The Three Pilots (1942)
• Invisible Chains (1942)
• Harlem (1943)
• Sad Loves (1943)
• Maria Malibran (1943)
• Shoeshine (1946)
• Biraghin (1946)
• Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
• The Lovers (1946)
• The Charterhouse of Parma (1948)
• Crossroads of Passion (1948)
• Black Magic (1949)
• The Pirates of Capri (1949)
• The Thief of Venice (1950)
• Love and Blood (1951)
• Last Meeting (1951)
• Shadows Over Naples (1951)
• Messalina (1951)
• Othello (1951)
• Article 519, Penal Code (1952)
• The Woman Who Invented Love (1952)
• Hello Elephant (1952)
• The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
• For You I Have Sinned (1953)
• The Two Orphans (1954)
• The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954)
• Il conte Aquila (1955)
• Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
• Io piaccio (1955)
• Peccato di castità (1956)
• Peppino, le modelle e chella là (1957)
• Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics (1958)
• Cleopatra's Daughter (1960)