Gennaro Righelli
Appearance
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Born | Salerno, Italy | 12 December 1886
Died | 6 January 1949 Rome, Italy | (aged 62)
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1910–1947 |
Gennaro Righelli (12 December 1886 – 6 January 1949) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed more than 110 films in Italy and Germany between 1910 and 1947. In 1930, he directed the first Italian sound film, The Song of Love.[1] He was married to the film star Maria Jacobini who he frequently cast in his films.
Selected filmography
- The Voyage (1921)
- The Doll Queen (1925)
- Svengali (1927)
- Homesick (1927)
- The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927, writer)
- The Champion of the World (1927)
- Five Anxious Days (1928)
- The President (1928)
- The Secret Courier (1928)
- Orient (1928)
- Their Son (1929)
- The Night of Terror (1929)
- The Song of Love (1930)
- The Blue Fleet (1932)
- Together in the Dark (1933)
- Stadium (1934)
- Mr. Desire (1934)
- Those Two (1935)
- Abandon All Hope (1937)
- The Knight of San Marco (1939)
- The Courier of the King (1947)
References
- ^ "Cinema Italia". BFI. Retrieved 12 September 2010.