Ottavio Alessi

Ottavio Alessi (1 January 1919 - 28 April 1978) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.

Ottavio Alessi
Born	(1919-01-01)1 January 1919 Cammarata, Italy
Died	28 April 1978(1978-04-28) (aged 59)
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter Director

Life and career

Born in Cammarata, Province of Agrigento, Alessi entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director.^[1] 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.^[1]

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)
• Amici per la pelle (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)