{{short description|Italian writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Domenico Meccoli | birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|1|4|df=y}} | birth_place = Assisi, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|11|21|1913|1|4|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = Film critic, journalist, screenwriter, actor }}
'''Domenico Meccoli''' (4 January 1913 – 21 November 1983) was an Italian film critic, journalist, screenwriter and occasional actor. Born in Assisi, Meccoli started his career as a journalist and a film critic for the magazine ''Cinema'', and later for several decades he was film critic and chief editor of the magazine ''Epoca''.<ref name=bio>{{cite news|title=Morto Meccoli, fu direttore del Festival di Venezia|work=La Stampa|issue=276|date=22 November 1983}}</ref>
He wrote for nine films between 1939 and 1954.<ref name=bio /> He was a member of the jury at the 16th Venice International Film Festival in 1955,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Enzo Di Martino|title=The history of the Venice Biennale: 1895- 2005 : visual arts, architecture, cinema, dance, music, theatre|year=2005|publisher=Papiro Arte, 2005|isbn=8890110449}}</ref> at the 9th Cannes Film Festival in 1956<ref name="festival-cannes">{{Cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1956/juryLongFilm.html |title=Festival Cannes: Juries |access-date=1 March 2010 |work=festival-cannes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208092548/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1956/juryLongFilm.html |archive-date=8 February 2012 }}</ref> and at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival in 1968.<ref name="berlinale 1968">{{Cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1968/04_jury_1968/04_Jury_1968.html |title=Berlinale 1968: Juries |access-date=1 March 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> In 1961 and 1962 he served as artistic director of the Venice Film Festival.<ref name=bio />
==Selected filmography== * ''Cardinal Messias'' (1939) * ''Hurricane in the Tropics'' (1939) * ''Flying Squadron'' (1949) * ''Stormbound'' (1950) * ''Tomorrow Is Another Day'' (1951) * ''I due derelitti'' (1951) * ''Tom Toms of Mayumba'' (1955, actor)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0575302|Domenico Meccoli}}
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