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Alberto Cavalcanti
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Director Born: February 6, 1897 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Death: August 23, 1982 in Paris, France Biography:"Alberto de Almeida-Cavalcanti" entered the French film industry in the early 1920s, and for director "Marcel L'Herbier" was set decorator on "L'Inhumaine" (with "Fernand Leger") and "Feu Mathias Pascal" (with "Lazare Meerson"). He began directing in 1927 with the impressionistic documentary "Rien Que Les Heures", and as a writer/director made numerous French films in the late 1920s and early '30s, including "Yvette" and "Le Jour Du Frotteur". He joined "John Grierson"'s G.P.O. Film Unit in Britain in 1934, and wrote and directed several admired documentaries, among them Coal Face, "Message from Geneva", and Four Barriers. His notable fiction films of the '40s include the "Ventriloquist's Dummy" episode of the classic horror anthology "Dead Of Night" and the Dickens' adaptation "Nicholas Nickleby". He directed three films in Brazil in the early '50s, but was blacklisted there as a communist and... Full Biography
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