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name: "Oreste Biancoli"
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tmdb_id: 41637
wikidata_id: "Q731702"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "20 October 1897"
died: "25 November 1971"
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:08:26.890406+00:00"
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# Oreste Biancoli

## Identity

Oreste Biancoli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oreste-biancoli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** oreste-biancoli
- **IMDb ID:** nm0080755
- **TMDB ID:** 41637
- **Wikidata ID:** Q731702
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste_Biancoli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731702, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080755/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41637

Writer. Born 20 October 1897 in Bologna, Italy. Died 25 November 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 20 October 1897, Bologna, Italy
- **Died:** 25 November 1971
- **Also known as:** Robert Davidson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste_Biancoli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731702, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080755/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41637

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Bicycle Thieves*](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md) (93)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Oreste Biancoli was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He contributed to more than 90 films as a writer between 1930 and 1964, and directed nine films between 1938 and 1952.

Born in Bologna, he studied law and worked as a journalist before collaborating with Dino Falconi on stage comedies. He entered the film industry soon after the advent of sound and later assumed artistic leadership of Scalera Films during the Second World War. He continued to write fiction, reviews and plays throughout his career.

His most renowned screen credit is the screenplay for *Bicycle Thieves* (1948), directed by Vittorio De Sica. Other notable works include *Erik the Conqueror* (1961) and *The Ghost* (1963), the latter credited under the pseudonym Robert Davidson.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bicycle Thieves* (1948), Fi1m 93, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md)

## Complete filmography (78)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *36 China Town* (2006), Original Story
- *Love and Marriage* (1964), Writer
- *The Avenger of Venice* (1964), Screenplay
- *The Ghost* (1963), Screenplay, Story
- *The Masseuses* (1962), Screenplay
- *Marco Polo* (1962), Writer
- *The Witch's Curse* (1962), Writer
- *Il mio amico Benito* (1962), Story, Screenplay
- *Pontius Pilate* (1962), Screenplay
- *Erik the Conqueror* (1961), Story, Screenplay
- *Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World* (1961), Story, Screenplay
- *Joseph and His Brethren* (1961), Screenplay
- *Atlas Against the Cyclops* (1961), Screenplay, Story
- *Love, the Italian Way* (1960), Screenplay, Story
- *Genitori in blue-jeans* (1960), Story, Screenplay
- *Gastone* (1960), Screenplay
- *Death of a Friend* (1960), Story
- *The Moralist* (1959), Screenplay
- *Winter Holidays* (1959), Story, Screenplay
- *Domenica è sempre domenica* (1958), Screenplay, Story
- *Non sono più guaglione* (1957), Screenplay
- *La canzone del destino* (1957), Writer
- *Desert Warrior* (1957), Screenplay
- *Occhi senza luce* (1956), Screenplay
- *Altair* (1956), Story
- *Scampolo 53* (1955), Screenplay
- *Songs from all over Italy* (1955), Screenplay
- *Divisione Folgore* (1954), Screenplay
- *A Free Woman* (1954), Screenplay, Adaptation
- *Il cardinale Lambertini* (1954), Screenplay
- *In the Eddy of Sin* (1954), Screenplay
- *Rosso e nero* (1954), Writer
- *Submarine Attack* (1954), Screenplay
- *The Slave of Sin* (1954), Story
- *Gran varietà* (1954), Writer
- *100 Years of Love* (1954), Screenplay, Theatre Play
- *Mid-Century Loves* (1954), Screenplay
- *Cavalcade of Song* (1953), Writer
- *Voice of Silence* (1953), Screenplay
- *Black Feathers* (1952), Story, Screenplay, Director
- *Times Gone By* (1952), Screenplay
- *Wanda the Sinner* (1952), Screenplay
- *Half a Century of Song* (1952), Writer
- *Il caimano del Piave* (1951), Writer
- *Tomorrow Is Another Day* (1951), Co-Writer
- *Cuori sul mare* (1950), Writer
- *Tomorrow Is Too Late* (1950), Screenplay
- *Yvonne of the Night* (1949), Screenplay
- *Sicilian Uprising* (1949), Writer
- *The Flame that Never Dies* (1949), Script, Screenplay
- *Bicycle Thieves* (1948), Screenplay — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md)
- *Heart* (1948), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *Sinfonia fatale* (1947), Story
- *The Great Dawn* (1947), Writer
- *The Bandit* (1946), Screenplay
- *Sant'Elena, piccola isola* (1943), Screenplay
- *Il vagabondo* (1941), Screenplay
- *Il chiromante* (1941), Director, Screenplay
- *The King's Jester* (1941), as Courtier
- *Il sogno di tutti* (1940), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Piccolo alpino* (1940), Director
- *La gerla di papà Martin* (1940), Screenplay
- *Ballo al castello* (1939), Writer
- *L'eredità in corsa* (1939), Screenplay, Director
- *Frenesia* (1939), Screenplay
- *Ai vostri ordini, signora...* (1939), Screenplay
- *A Thousand Lire a Month* (1939), Story
- *Amicizia* (1938), Director
- *La mazurka di papà* (1938), Theatre Play, Director
- *Nina, non far la stupida* (1938), Screenplay
- *Tonight at Eleven* (1937), Writer, Director
- *Cavalleria* (1936), Screenplay, Story
- *Nozze vagabonde* (1936), Writer
- *Oggi sposi* (1934), Writer
- *Paprika* (1933), Writer
- *The Last Fling* (1932), Story
- *The Secretary for Everyone* (1932), Writer
- *The Private Secretary* (1931), Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay 1949: Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay (won), for *Bicycle Thieves*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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