Mario Sequi

Mario Sequi
Born	30 June 1913 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Died	1992 Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation(s)	Director, Writer
Years active	1938-1975 (film)

Mario Sequi (1913-1992) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. A Sardinian by birth, he was married to the actress Lia Franca. He began his career in the 1930s as a production manager in the 1930s before becoming a director after the Second World War.

Selected filmography

Production manager

• I Met You Too Late (1940)
• Il vetturale del San Gottardo (1941)
• C'è un fantasma nel castello (1942)
• Orizzonte di sangue (1942)
• The White Angel (1943)

Assistant director

• O sole mio (1946)
• Peddlin' in Society (1946)

Director

• L'isola di Montecristo (1948)
• The Monastery of Santa Chiara (1949)
• Altura (1949)
• Tragic Spell (1951)
• Gli uomini dal passo pesante (1965)
• The Cobra (1967)
• The Tigers of Mompracem (1970)
• The Silkworm (1973)

Bibliography

• Bayman, Louis. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

External links

• Mario Sequi at IMDb