Alfonso Brescia

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Alfonso Brescia (born January 6, 1930 in Rome , † June 6, 2001 ibid) was an Italian director and screenwriter .

Life

Brescia, son of producer Edoardo Brescia , first worked as a screenwriter and co-director since 1956 and was a permanent member of Mario Caiano's staff . In the mid-1960s he switched to the director's chair. He devoted himself entirely to commercial cinema. After initially making several sandal films, he worked in every genre in the later years, often for spaghetti westerns and war films . His low-budget science fiction films from 1977 to 1979, all of them in the wake of Star Wars , achieved particular fame among exploitation fans . In the 1980s he switched to melodramas around the city of Naples before ending his career with less exciting action films . In some films he used the pseudonyms Al Bradley , Al Bradly or Albert B. Leonard .

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1964: The Praetorian Revolt (La rivolta dei pretoriani)
  • 1964: The greatest of gladiators (Il magnifico gladiatore)
  • 1965: Battle for Atlantis (Il conquistatore di Atlantide)
  • 1965: Die upright gringo! (La colt è la mia legge)
  • 1966: Atomic alarm grid square golden seven ( Tecnica di una spia )
  • 1967: His change is lead (I giorni della violenza)
  • 1967: Die or Kill (Killer calibro 32)
  • 1967: 100,000 damn dollars (Voltati ... ti uccido)
  • 1968: The hour of the vultures (Carogne si nasce)
  • 1969: Running to die for (Uccidete Rommel)
  • 1969: In the labyrinth of sexuality (Nel labirinto del sesso)
  • 1971: His battlefield was the bed (Calde notti di Don Giovanni)
  • 1972: Poppea, the whore of Rome - Messalina II (Poppea… una prostituta al servizio dell'impero)
  • 1973: Two scoundrels "storm" Troy (Elena si, ma ... di Troia)
  • 1973: Women who were called killers (Le amazzoni - donne d'amore e di guerra)
  • 1974: Whiskey and the gold diggers (La spacconata)
  • 1974: Supermen against Amazons (Superuomini, superdonne, superbotte)
  • 1975: Chased by wolves (Zanna Bianca e il cacciatore solitario)
  • 1976: blood of a bull (Sangue di sbirro)
  • 1977: Battle of the Stars (Anno zero - Guerra nello spazio)
  • 1978: War of the Robots (La guerra dei robot)
  • 1978: The beast from space (La bestia nello spazio)
  • 1978: Star Odyssey (Sette uomini d'oro nello spazio)
  • 1979: The great battle of the Syndicate (I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia)
  • 1987: Iron Warrior (Ator il guerriero di ferro)
  • 1988: Combat Attack (Fuoco incrociato)
  • 1990: Miami Cops (Sapore di morte)

Script only

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, i registi; Gremese 2003, p. 73
personal data
SURNAME Brescia, Alfonso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Al Bradley (pseudonym); Al Bradly (pseudonym); Albert B. Leonard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2001
Place of death Rome