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Anchise Brizzi | |
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Died | 29 February 1964 Rome, Italy | (aged 76)
Years active | 1914-1963 |
Anchise Brizzi (5 October 1887 – 29 February 1964) was an Italian cinematographer.[1]
Born in Poppi, Arezzo, Brizzi attended the regio istituto tecnico, specializing in optics and photography, then entered the cinema industry in the early 1910s.[2] He won the best cinematography award at the 1948 Locarno International Film Festival for the film The Charterhouse of Parma directed by Christian-Jaque.[3] He worked as cinematographer in more than 100 productions, including Vittorio De Sica's Shoeshine, Orson Welles' Othello, Alessandro Blasetti's 1860, Gregory Ratoff's Black Magic, Mario Camerini's Il signor Max.