Oreste Biancoli(1897-1971)
- Writer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Italian playwright, screenwriter, and director. At age 24, he received
his law degree, but proceeded upon a career in journalism. He
collaborated with Dino Falconi on a number of successful comedies for the
stage before entering films soon after the coming of sound. Soon
thereafter he began directing as well as writing films. During the
Second World War he assumed the artistic leadership of Scalera Films.
He continued to write fiction, reviews, and plays as well as films, his
most renowned film script being that for Le Voleur de bicyclette (1948).
