Domenico Meccoli | |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1913 |
Birth Place: | Assisi, Italy |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Occupation: | Film critic, journalist, screenwriter, actor |
Domenico Meccoli (4 January 1913 - 21 November 1983) was an Italian film critic, journalist, screenwriter and occasional actor. Born in Assisi, Meccoli started his career as a journalist and a film critic for the magazine Cinema, and later for several decades he was film critic and chief editor of the magazine Epoca.[1]
He wrote for nine films between 1939 and 1954. He was a member of the jury at the 16th Venice International Film Festival in 1955,[2] at the 9th Cannes Film Festival in 1956[3] and at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival in 1968.[4] In 1961 and 1962 he served as artistic director of the Venice Film Festival.