Arrigo Bocchi (c.1871 – ?) was a British-Italian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and producer of the

silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

.Low p.149-50 After the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

Bocchi worked for Windsor Films at the

Catford Studios Catford Studios was a British film studio located in Catford in Southeast London which operated from 1914 to 1921. It was also known as the Windsor Studios. The studio was constructed in 1914, and produced a number of notable films during the Fi ...

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as well as shooting films on location in Italy.

Selected filmography

Producer

* ''

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'' (1916) * '' The Black Night'' (1916) * '' A King of the People'' (1917) * '' Ora Pro Nobis'' (1917)

Director

* '' The Slave'' (1918) * '' Not Guilty'' (1919) * ''

The Polar Star ''The Polar Star'' is a 1919 British silent mystery film directed by Arrigo Bocchi and starring Manora Thew, Hayford Hobbs and Peggy Patterson.Low p.429 The screenplay concerns a London soliciter who is killed in mysterious circumstances in It ...

'' (1919)

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''The History of the British Film 1918–1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

External links

* Year of death unknown 1870s births Italian film directors Italian film producers British film directors British film producers Italian emigrants to the United Kingdom {{Italy-film-bio-stub