{{Infobox person | name = Alfonso Liguori | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Alfonso Liguori | birth_date = June 3, 1885 | birth_place = Salerno, Italy | death_date = May 8, 1951 (aged 65) | death_place = Overbrook Hills, Pennsylvania | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = | othername = | occupation = cinematographer | yearsactive = | spouse = | children = }}
'''Al Liguori''' (June 3, 1885 - May 8, 1951) was an Italian born cinematographer mainly of the silent era. His style of photography was a precursor to what became known as film noir. His best known surviving film is the all-black ''Scar of Shame'' (1927). He came to America as a child and his family settled in Brooklyn New York where he was educated.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=A3hJAQAAMAAJ&dq=alfonso+liguori+cinematography&pg=PA76 GoogleBooks Cinema News: "Art and the Movies" by Lewis W. Physioc; New York April 1, 1917; culled from archived Cinema News, Volumes 1-2 (PAGE 49)]</ref> He was born in Salerno Italy and died in Pennsylvania in 1951.
==Selected filmography== *''The Innocent Lie'' (1916) *''The Smugglers'' (1916) *''Marie, Ltd.'' (1919) *''Redhead'' (1919) *''The Teeth of the Tiger'' (1919) *''The World and His Wife'' (1920) *''The Passionate Pilgrim'' (1921) *''Straight Is the Way'' (1921) *''The Woman God Changed'' (1921) *''Boomerang Bill'' (1922) *''Timothy's Quest'' (1922) *''Salome of the Tenements'' (1925) *''The Scar of Shame'' (1927)
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*{{IMDb name|0510086}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=A3hJAQAAMAAJ&dq=cinemanews+april+1%2C+1917+art+and+the+movies+lewis+physioc&pg=PA49 ''Cinema News'' April 1, 1917; "Art and the Movies" by Lewis W. Physioc] *[https://books.google.com/books?id=A3hJAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA1 Picture] in ''Cinema News''
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