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Alessandro Tasca(1906-2000)

  • Producer
  • Production Manager
  • Actor
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Born Prince Alessandro Tasca di Cutò into an aristocratic family of Norman origin, cousin of the author Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of the classic novel The Leopard, adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon. Alessandro Tasca's father, a womanizing Socialist politician known as 'The Red Prince', devoured the family's fortune to realize his ideals. Tasca emigrated to New York and worked as a car mechanic, a bootlegger's driver, a cashier for the Saratoga racetrack and a runner on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the Wall Street crash of 1929. After the outbreak of WW2, Alessandro returned to Rome and was assigned to the Ministry of Propaganda where he met Ezra Pound. Alessandro was later interned in an English-run POW camp in Southern Italy. After the war Tasca, was hired to work in the film industry to ease Anglo-American productions through the horrors of Italian bureaucracy. In 1946 he met Orson Welles who was to become a lifelong friend. Over the next forty years he worked on several of Welles' films both in Europe and later on in America, among others Chimes at Midnight and Don Quixote. Tasca also worked with some of the great names of international cinema over his long career: John Huston, Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Gina Lollobrigida, and many others. Tasca's singular adaptability was observed by the distinguished Italian writer, Luigi Barzini of The Italians fame, who dubbed Tasca the 'bourgeois' prince in an essay on his cousin Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
BornJuly 21, 1906
DiedSeptember 10, 2000(94)
BornJuly 21, 1906
DiedSeptember 10, 2000(94)
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Known for

La mission (1985)
La mission
4.5
  • Priest
  • 1985
La vengeance d'Hercule (1960)
La vengeance d'Hercule
5.2
  • Producer
  • 1960
L'Évangile selon saint Matthieu (1964)
L'Évangile selon saint Matthieu
7.6
  • Ponzio Pilato(as Alessandro Clerici)
  • 1964
Falstaff (1965)
Falstaff
7.6
  • Producer
  • 1965

Credits

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Producer



  • Don Quichotte (1992)
    Don Quichotte
    6.0
    • producer: original footage
    • 1992
  • Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)
    Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
    6.0
    TV Movie
    • producer
    • 1992
  • Morgan Fairchild, Christopher Lee, and Patrick Macnee in Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)
    Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
    5.7
    TV Movie
    • producer
    • 1991
  • Le tour du monde en 80 jours (1989)
    Le tour du monde en 80 jours
    7.1
    TV Mini Series
    • line producer
    • 1989
  • Telly Savalas and Franco Nero in Le Salopard (1973)
    Le Salopard
    5.1
    • production executive (uncredited)
    • 1973
  • Don Quichotte (1992)
    Don Quixote
    6.6
    • producer
    • 1972
  • Falstaff (1965)
    Falstaff
    7.6
    • executive producer
    • 1965
  • Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (1964)
    Nella terra di Don Chisciotte
    6.9
    TV Series
    • executive producer
    • 1964
  • La vengeance d'Hercule (1960)
    La vengeance d'Hercule
    5.2
    • overall executive producer
    • 1960

Production Manager



  • Hôtel Colonial (1987)
    Hôtel Colonial
    4.0
    • executive in charge of production
    • 1987
  • Richard Burton and Alain Delon in L'assassinat de Trotsky (1972)
    L'assassinat de Trotsky
    5.7
    • executive in charge of production
    • 1972
  • Madron (1970)
    Madron
    5.2
    • executive in charge of production
    • 1970
  • Sémiramis, déesse de l'Orient (1963)
    Sémiramis, déesse de l'Orient
    5.5
    • production supervisor
    • 1963
  • Howard Duff in Foudres sur Babylone (1962)
    Foudres sur Babylone
    5.2
    • general manager
    • 1962
  • En avant la musique (1962)
    En avant la musique
    5.5
    • general manager
    • 1962
  • Les Tartares (1961)
    Les Tartares
    4.6
    • general manager
    • 1961
  • Buster Crabbe in Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (1955)
    Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion
    6.9
    TV Series
    • production manager
    • 1956–1957
  • La souris déclenche la bagarre (1954)
    La souris déclenche la bagarre
    5.6
    • production supervisor
    • 1954

Actor



  • Iguana (1988)
    Iguana
    6.1
    • Priest at Funeral
    • 1988
  • La mission (1985)
    La mission
    4.5
    • Priest
    • 1985
  • Le marchand de Venise (1969)
    Le marchand de Venise
    7.5
    TV Short
    • 1969
  • L'Évangile selon saint Matthieu (1964)
    L'Évangile selon saint Matthieu
    7.6
    • Ponzio Pilato (as Alessandro Clerici)
    • 1964
  • The Small Miracle (1951)
    The Small Miracle
    7.5
    • Civilian Clerk
    • 1951
  • Peppino e Violetta (1951)
    Peppino e Violetta
    7.0
    • Civilian Clerk (uncredited)
    • 1951
  • Secret d'état (1950)
    Secret d'état
    7.0
    • State Radio Commentator (voice, uncredited)
    • 1950

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Alessandro Clerici
  • Born
    • July 21, 1906
    • Palermo, Sicily, Italy
  • Died
    • September 10, 2000
    • Piedimonte Etneo, Sicily, Italy
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Print Biography

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