Mario Sequi (1913-1992) was an Italian
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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[Bayman p.59] A
Sardinian by birth, he was married to the actress
Lia Franca
Lia Franca (1912–1988) was an Italian film actress. She was sometimes credited as Lya Franca and Libia Franca.
Life and career
Born Livia Caterina Petra Penso in Trieste, Franca started her career winning a beauty contest, "Miss Trieste", i ...
. He began his career in the 1930s as a
production manager in the 1930s before becoming a director after the
Second World War.
Selected filmography
Production manager
* ''
I Met You Too Late'' (1940)
* ''
Il vetturale del San Gottardo'' (1941)
* ''
C'è un fantasma nel castello'' (1942)
* ''
Orizzonte di sangue
Jan Frans van Bloemen (baptized 12 May 1662 - buried 13 June 1749) was a Flemish landscape painter mainly active in Rome. Here he was able to establish himself as the leading painter of views ( vedute) of the Roman countryside depicted in the a ...
'' (1942)
* ''
The White Angel'' (1943)
Assistant director
* ''
O sole mio'' (1946)
* ''
Peddlin' in Society
''Peddlin' in Society'' or ''Down With Riches!'' ( it, Abbasso la ricchezza!) is a 1946 Italian romance-drama film directed by Gennaro Righelli. it was a loose sequel to the 1945 film ''Down with Misery'' by the same director and also starring Ma ...
'' (1946)
Director
* ''
L'isola di Montecristo'' (1948)
* ''
Altura'' (1949)
* ''
Tragic Spell'' (1951)
* ''
Gli uomini dal passo pesante'' (1965)
* ''
The Cobra'' (1967)
* ''
The Tigers of Mompracem'' (1970)
* ''
The Silkworm'' (1973)
References
Bibliography
* Bayman, Louis. ''The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama''. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
External links
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1913 births
1992 deaths
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian film directors
People from Cagliari
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