Clemente Fracassi
{{short description|Italian film producer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| image =
| name = Clemente Fracassi
| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|3|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = Vescovato, Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|2|2|1917|3|5|df=y}}
| death_place = Rome, Italy
| occupation = Film producer
Film director
Screenwriter
| yearsactive = 1939-1967
}}
Clemente Fracassi (5 March 1917 – 2 February 1993) was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter. His career spanned from 1939 to 1967.
Born in Vescovato, Cremona, Fracassi started his career in the late 1930s, as assistant director of Mario Camerini and Mario Soldati and shortly later as producer.{{cite book |last1=Poppi |first1=Roberto |title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri |date=2002 |publisher=Gremese Editore |isbn=978-88-8440-171-7 |page=183 |language=it |chapter=Fracassi, Clemente}} He made his directorial debut as a Soldati's last-minute replacement with Romanticismo.
Selected filmography
;As a producer
- Professor, My Son (1946)
- To Live in Peace (1947)
- Les Misérables (1948)
- Without Pity (1948)
- The Mill on the Po (1949)
- Toto Looks for a House (1949)
- A Dog's Life (1950)
- Susanna Whipped Cream (1957)
- Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
- Death on the Run (1967)
;As a director
- Romanticismo (1950)
- Barefoot Savage (1952, also writer)
- Aida (1953)
- Andrea Chénier (1955)
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=VV. AA. |title=Clemente Fracassi e Sensualità |date=2000 |publisher=Comune di Mantova |isbn=978-88-87123-12-8 |language=it}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0289474|Clemente Fracassi}}
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Category:Italian film producers
Category:Italian film directors
Category:20th-century Italian screenwriters
Category:Italian male screenwriters
Category:20th-century Italian male writers
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