Otello Martelli

Otello Martelli
Born	(1903-05-19)19 May 1903 Rome, Italy
Died	20 February 2000(2000-02-20) (aged 96)

Otello Martelli (19 May 1903 – 20 February 2000)^[1][2] was an Italian cinematographer whose films include La Dolce Vita.

Life and career

Born in Rome, he began work in 1920. He collaborated with Roberto Rossellini, Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini, Alessandro Blasetti, Giuseppe De Santis, Vittorio De Sica and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Specially was his collaboration with Fellini from 1950 (Luci del varietà) until 1961 (with the episode Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio in Boccaccio '70). His films include La Dolce Vita, Paisà, and L'oro di Napoli.

Selected filmography

• Countess Sarah (1919)
• The Youth of the Devil (1921)
• Consuelita (1925)
• The Old Guard (1934)
• The Ancestor (1936)
• The Countess of Parma (1936)
• Bayonet (1936)
• To Live (1937)
• Mad Animals (1939)
• Lucrezia Borgia (1940)
• Tragic Night (1942)
• In High Places (1943)
• Paisan (1946)
• Last Love (1947)
• Tragic Hunt (1947)
• Bitter Rice (1949)
• Variety Lights (1950)
• Stromboli (1950)
• The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
• Anna (1951)
• Rome 11:00 (1952)
• I Vitelloni (1953)
• The Gold of Naples (1954)
• La Strada (1954)
• Il Bidone (1955)
• Guendalina (1957)
• Vacanze a Ischia (1957)
• This Angry Age (1958)
• The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
• Menage all'italiana (1965)
• Death Walks in Laredo (1966)

References

External links

• Otello Martelli at the Internet Movie Database