Alfredo Angeli

{{Short description|Italian film director and screenwriter}} {{distinguish|Alfredo de Angeli|Alfredo De Angelis}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Alfredo Angeli | birth_date = {{birth date |1927|8|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Livorno | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|11|25|1927|8|7|df=yes}} | death_place = Rome | occupation = film director, screenwriter }}

'''Alfredo Angeli''' (7 August 1927, in Livorno – 25 November 2005, in Rome<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ricerca.gelocal.it/ilpiccolo/archivio/ilpiccolo/2005/11/26/NZ_15_AAAA.html |title= Scomparso Alfredo Angeli sceneggiatore e regista |date=26 November 2005 |language=it}}</ref>) was an Italian director and screenwriter.

Born in Livorno, Angeli entered the cinema industry in 1958, being the assistant director of Luigi Zampa in ''The City Stands Trial'';<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> after having collaborated with, among others, Camillo Mastrocinque and Vittorio Cottafavi, in the early 1960s he started working as a director of commercial, and between the 1960s and the 1990s he directed over 3,000 commercials.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> He made his feature film directorial debut in 1967, with the satirical ''The Strange Night'',<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> which was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Fabrizio Borghini |author2=Umberto Guidi |author3=Chiara Sacchetti |title=Livorno al cinema|publisher=Informazione, 1997}}</ref> In 1981 he directed a RAI TV-series of great success, ''Benedetta & Company''.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref>

== Filmography == * 1967: ''The Strange Night'' * 1976: ''Languid Kisses, Wet Caresses'' * 1983: ''Benedetta & Company'' (TV) * 1984: ''L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer'' (Co-director) * 1997: ''Con rabbia e con amore'' * 1999: ''Giochi pericolosi'' (TV) * 2001: ''Un altro mondo è possibile''

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== External links == * {{IMDb name|0029544}}

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