Ottavio Alessi
# Ottavio Alessi

Ottavio Alessi (1 January 1919 - 28 April 1978) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.

## Life and career

Born in Cammarata, Province of Agrigento, Alessi entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director. In 1945 he started an intense career as a screenwriter, alternating between genre films and art films and collaborating with Pietro Germi, Franco Rossi, Folco Quilici and Luciano Salce, among others. He also directed two films in the 1960s.

## Selected filmography

### Director and screenwriter

* What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964) (a parody of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?).
* Top Sensation (1969)

### Screenwriter

* The Testimony (1946)
* Amici per la pelle (1955)
* A Woman Alone (1956)
* Juke box urli d'amore (1959)
* Wild Cats on the Beach (1959)
* The Mongols (1961)
* Charge of the Black Lancers (1962)
* La ragazzola (1965)
* Bali (1970)
* Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)
* La Bidonata (1977)
* Emanuelle in America (1977)
* The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
