Ornella Micheli
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{{short description|Italian film editor}}
{{Infobox person
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| occupation = Film editor
| years_active = 1950–1981
| relatives = Bruno Micheli (brother)
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Ornella Micheli (sometimes credited as Donna Christie or Ornella Micheli Donati){{Cite journal|last=Missero|first=Dalila|date=1 October 2018|title=Titillating Cuts: Genealogies of Women Editors in Italian Cinema|url=https://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/4/4/57|journal=Feminist Media Histories|language=en|volume=4|issue=4|pages=57–82|doi=10.1525/fmh.2018.4.4.57|issn=2373-7492}} was an Italian film editor active from the 1950s through the 1980s. She often worked on the exploitation films and thrillers of directors Lucio Fulci, Riccardo Freda, and Giuliano Carnimeo.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M6D3AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Ornella+Micheli%22&pg=PT105|title=Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns|last=Hughes|first=Howard|date=31 March 2006|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-0-85773-045-9|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6szDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Ornella+Micheli%22&pg=PA138|title=Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979|last=Curti|first=Roberto|date=11 September 2017|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2960-5|language=en}}
Biography
She was the daughter of Roberto Rosselini's key grips, and she apprenticed under Rosselini's editor, Jolanda Benvenuti.{{Cite journal|last=Missero|first=Dalila|date=Fall 2018|title=Titillating Cuts: Genealogies of Women Editors in Italian Cinema|url=http://womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu/assets/pdfs/BENVENUTI_Titillating_Cuts_Missero.pdf|journal=Feminist Media Histories|doi=10.1525/fmh.2018.4.4.57}} Her brother, Bruno Micheli, also worked as a film editor.
Selected filmography
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- Porno Holocaust (1981)
- Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980)
- Antropophagus (1980)
- Sesso nero (1980)
- Beyond the Darkness (1979)
- Silver Saddle (1978)
- The Psychic (1977)
- My Sister in Law (1976)
- Piange... il telefono (1975)
- Dracula in the Provinces (1975)
- Challenge to White Fang (1974)
- White Fang (1973)
- Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore! (1973)
- Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
- Return of Halleluja (1972)
- His Name Was Holy Ghost (1972)
- They Call Him Cemetery (1971)
- Guns for Dollars (1971)
- Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (1970)
- Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (1970)
- I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death (1969)
- One on Top of the Other (1969)
- Suicide Commandos (1968)
- Find a Place to Die (1968)
- The Moment to Kill (1968)
- Operazione San Pietro (1967)
- Bang Bang Kid (1967)
- How to Kill 400 Duponts (1967)
- The Hills Run Red (1966)
- The Brute and the Beast (1966)
- The Third Eye (1966)
- The Wacky World of James Tont (1966)
- Goldsinger (1965)
- How We Got into Trouble with the Army (1965)
- Samson in King Solomon's Mines (1964)
- The Avenger of Venice (1964)
- Il magnifico avventuriero (1963)
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
- Marco Polo (1962)
- The Witch's Curse (1962)
- Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961)
- The Lion of Amalfi (1950)
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Category:Italian women film editors
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