FILM DIRECTOR

Alessandro Blasetti

1900 - 1987

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Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Blasetti has received more than 88,893 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alessandro Blasetti is the 508th most popular film director (up from 533rd in 2019), the 2,420th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,440th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Italian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 508 out of 2,041Before him are Gleb Panfilov, Vicente Aranda, Marcel Camus, Henry Koster, Michael Apted, and John Milius. After him are Lee Chang-dong, Richard Boleslawski, Ted Kotcheff, Sam Wood, Clarence Brown, and Fernando Solanas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 126Before him are Luigi Longo, Leo Löwenthal, Franz Neumann, Hans Stuck, René Crevel, and Fritz London. After him are Alexander Novikov, Victor Young, Mary Cartwright, Victor Kugler, Xavier Cugat, and Grigory Shtern. Among people deceased in 1987, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 99Before him are Renato Guttuso, Zeca Afonso, Mary Astor, R. Budd Dwyer, Claudio Villa, and Will Sampson. After him are Bertrand de Jouvenel, Clarence Brown, Edgar P. Jacobs, Hermann Lang, Donn F. Eisele, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 2,420 out of 5,161Before him are Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme (1872), Benedetto Castelli (1578), Pietro Riario (1447), Enrico Betti (1823), Massimo d'Azeglio (1798), and Agostino Depretis (1813). After him are Pietro Lando (1462), Emma of Italy (null), Paolo Di Canio (1968), Giovanni Giocondo (1433), Geki (1937), and Ottavio Rinuccini (1562).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 41Before him are Alberto Lattuada (1914), Giuliano Montaldo (1930), Umberto Lenzi (1931), Mauro Bolognini (1922), George P. Cosmatos (1941), and Elio Petri (1929). After him are Luigi Zampa (1905), Tonino Delli Colli (1923), Franco Rossi (1919), Carlo Lizzani (1922), Giovanni Pastrone (1883), and Gianfranco Parolini (1930).