Edoardo Bencivenga

{{Short description|Italian film director}}

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{{Infobox person

| birth_date = 1885

| birth_place = Naples

| death_date = June 6, 1934 (aged 58–59)

| death_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy

| occupation = Film director

| years_active = 1907–1922

}}

Edoardo Bencivenga (Naples, 1885 – Rome, June 6, 1934) was an Italian film director. Bencivegna began his career in 1907 with his first short film Raffaello e la Fornarina. In his career, he made over 60 films, the last one in 1922.

Career

Most of Bencivenga's work dates back to the first twenty years of the 1900s.{{Cite web |title=Cinematografo: Cast |url=https://www.cinematografo.it/cast/eduardo-bencivenga-ccbnzj5a |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=www.cinematografo.it}} He was very active as a director at the beginning of the century, both in short and feature films.{{Cite web |title=QUARANTA, Lydia - Enciclopedia |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lydia-quaranta_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=Treccani |language=it}}

A family friend of Vittorio De Sica, he obtained him a small role in a silent film directed by Alfredo De Antoni, Il processo Clémenceau in 1917.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}} His last known work is Gli eroi del Mare Nostro from 1923, a film about the Italian torpedo boat Premuda.{{Cite web |last=thea |date=2011-07-16 |title=Gli eroi del Mare Nostro 1923 |url=https://sempreinpenombra.com/2011/07/16/gli-eroi-del-mare-nostro-1923/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=sempre in penombra |language=it-IT}}

Filmography

References

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  • {{cite web |title=Edoardo Bencivenga |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070374/ |website=imdb.com |publisher=IMDb |access-date=7 April 2021}}

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