Alfredo Donelli
# Alfredo Donelli

Alfredo Donelli was a leading Italian cinematographer who worked on a number of silent films including the largely abandoned Italian-shot scenes of MGM's blockbuster Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). For Italian studios he worked on big-budget epics such as Quo Vadis (1924) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1926).

Along with Edmundo Orlandi he invented the Avia compact camera.

## Selected filmography

* Francesca da Rimini (1922)
* Quo Vadis (1924)
* The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
* The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
* The Storyteller of Venice (1929)
* Girls Do Not Joke (1929)
