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Leonardo De Mitri

Italian actor, film director and screenwriter (1914-1956)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ1819092 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leonardo De Mitri (1914–1956) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Selected filmography

The Outlaws (1950)

Cats and Dogs (1952)

The Angel of Sin (1952)

Verginità (1952)

Martin Toccaferro (1953)

Altair (1956)

Wives and Obscurities (1956)

References

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Leonardo De Mitri” is italian actor, film director and screenwriter (1914-1956). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Leonardo, Mitri and Italian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1956, 1950, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-08-31. For this dossier, Leonardo, Mitri and Italian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “italian actor, film director and screenwriter (1914-1956)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1819092. VIAF identifies the subject as 17486484. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1956, 1950 and 1952.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Leonardo De Mitri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.