Marco Bellocchio
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Italian film director, screenwriter and actor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marco Bellocchio is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher. He began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, first at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, then at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His first film, Fists in the Pocket , was funded by family members and shot on family property in 1965.