Ottavio Scotti

Ottavio Scotti
Born	23 February 1904 Umago, Istria, Italy
Died	23 May 1975 Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation	Art director
Years active	1937-1971

Ottavio Scotti (1904–1975) was an Italian art director. Scotti was born in Umago, which was then part of Italy but is today in Croatia. He worked on more than a hundred films during his career, including Orson Welles's Black Magic which was shot at Cinecittà in Rome.

Selected filmography

• Hurricane in the Tropics (1939)
• Red Tavern (1940)
• The Devil's Gondola (1946)
• Bullet for Stefano (1947)
• Chains (1949)
• Black Magic (1949)
• The Flame That Will Not Die (1949)
• The Thief of Venice (1950)
• Nobody's Children (1951)
• The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
• A Woman Has Killed (1952)
• Woman of the Red Sea (1953)
• The Count of Saint Elmo (1953)
• Genoese Dragnet (1954)
• Orient Express (1954)
• Sunset in Naples (1955)
• The White Angel (1955)
• Siege of Syracuse (1960)

Bibliography

• Richards, Jeffrey. Swordsmen of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York. Routledge, 2014.

External links

• Ottavio Scotti at IMDb