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 Four Steps in the Clouds. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandro Blasetti is the 493rd most popular film director (up from 508th in 2019), the 2,392nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,420th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Italian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 493 out of 2,041. Before him are Pierre Woodman, Andre DeToth, Gérard Oury, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Alain Corneau, and Walter Ruttmann. After him are André Cayatte, Umberto Lenzi, Sam Wood, Yves Allégret, Mauro Bolognini, and Richard Lester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 130. Before him are Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Luigi Longo, Alexander Novikov, Roland Penrose, Duy Tân, and René Crevel. After him are Lidia Ruslanova, Mikhail Katukov, Ibrahim Abboud, Rattanbai Jinnah, Leo Löwenthal, and Xavier Cugat. Among people deceased in 1987, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 93. Before him are Renato Guttuso, Alfred Bester, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Mary Astor, Anatoli Papanov, and Zeca Afonso. After him are Yves Allégret, Clarence Brown, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Lorne Greene, Edgar P. Jacobs, and Asim Ferhatović.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 2,392 out of 5,161. Before him are Otto Orseolo (992), Emerentiana (250), Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus (100), Bruno Munari (1907), Giuseppe Zanardelli (1826), and Marco Cé (1925). After him are Anthony Steffen (1930), Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (1847), Giacomo Quarenghi (1744), Giovanni Giocondo (1433), Carla Gravina (1941), and Leonardo Donato (1536).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Alessandro Blasetti ranks 36. Before him are Mario Monicelli (1915), Luigi Comencini (1916), Ermanno Olmi (1931), Giuseppe De Santis (1917), Valerio Zurlini (1926), and Alberto Lattuada (1914). After him are Umberto Lenzi (1931), Mauro Bolognini (1922), Elio Petri (1929), Sergio Sollima (1921), Carlo Lizzani (1922), and George P. Cosmatos (1941).

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