Carlo Infascelli

{{Short description|Italian film producer, screenwriter and film director (1913–1984)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Carlo Infascelli | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth-date|1 January 1912}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = {{death-date and age|30 October 1984|1 January 1912}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | resting_place = | spouse = | children = | years_active = | occupation = Director <br/> Screenwriter }} '''Carlo Infascelli''' (31 August 1913 - 30 October 1984) was an Italian producer, director, screenwriter and journalist.

== Life and career == Born in Rome, Infascelli started his career as a producer in the early 1940s.<ref name=bioe2>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> Shortly after the end of the World War II, following a journey to Sweden he bought the rights to import and distribute several 1930s and 1940s Swedish films in Italy, and from then he started an intense activity of importer, making the Italian audience discover directors such as Ernst Lubitsch, G. W. Pabst and Robert Siodmak.<ref name="la rep">{{cite news|last1=Maria Pia Fusco|title=E' morto a Roma il produttore Carlo Infascelli|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1984/11/01/morto-roma-il-produttore-carlo-infascelli.html?ref=search|accessdate=20 October 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=1 November 1984}}</ref> In the 1950s, starting from ''Half a Century of Song'', he got large success with a series of musical anthology comedy films directed by Domenico Paolella.<ref name="bioe2"/><ref name="la rep"/> Starting from 1963 he also wrote and directed a number of films, mainly comedies.<ref name="bioe2"/> He abandoned the cinema industry in 1977, following the death of his son Roberto.<ref name="bioe2"/><ref name="la rep"/> ==Selected filmography== * ''Cavalcade of Song'' (1953) * ''Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!'' (1954) * ''Red and Black'' (1955) * ''Songs of Italy'' (1955)

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