title: Ottavio Alessi
text: # Ottavio Alessi
  
  Ottavio Alessi (1 January 1919 - 28 April 1978) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.
  
  ## Life and career
  
  Born in Cammarata, Province of Agrigento, Alessi entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director. In 1945 he started an intense career as a screenwriter, alternating between genre films and art films and collaborating with Pietro Germi, Franco Rossi, Folco Quilici and Luciano Salce, among others. He also directed two films in the 1960s.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  ### Director and screenwriter
  
  * What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964) (a parody of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?).
  * Top Sensation (1969)
  
  ### Screenwriter
  
  * The Testimony (1946)
  * Amici per la pelle (1955)
  * A Woman Alone (1956)
  * Juke box urli d'amore (1959)
  * Wild Cats on the Beach (1959)
  * The Mongols (1961)
  * Charge of the Black Lancers (1962)
  * La ragazzola (1965)
  * Bali (1970)
  * Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)
  * La Bidonata (1977)
  * Emanuelle in America (1977)
  * The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
  