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词条 David Paltenghi
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Dancer  Choreographer  Film director 

  3. Later life

  4. Films

     Director  Actor 

  5. References

David Paltenghi (1919 – 4 February 1961) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, director and film director.

Early life

David Paltenghi was born in 1919 in Christchurch, Dorset the son of a Swiss-Italian father and English mother.[1][2]

Career

Dancer

He was a dancer with Ballet Rambert, until joining Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1941. Paltenghi created leading roles in Robert Helpmann's Miracle in the Gorbals in 1944 and Adam Zero in 1946, both for Sadler's Wells Ballet.

Choreographer

In 1950, he rejoined Ballet Rambert as a guest artist, and as a choreographer, created five ballets from 1950-51. The last was Canterbury Prologue, based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with music by Peter Racine Fricker and designs by the artist Edward Burra, who he had met when they both worked on Miracle in the Gorbals.[3]

Film director

Paltenghi later became a film director, and his 1955 The Love Match starring Arthur Askey was praised, "gets the utmost out of every laugh without belaboring the point".[4]{{Self-published inline|date=December 2017}}

Later life

He died on 4 February 1961 in Windsor, Berkshire.[1]

His son Jake Celeste Paltenghi is a painter and sculptor.[5]

Films

Director

  • Orders Are Orders (1954)
  • The Love Match (1955)
  • Keep It Clean (1956) - The Husband in 'Ring Around the Rosy'

Actor

  • Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) - Vincente (uncredited)
  • The Queen of Spades (1949) - Officer in the gaming room
  • The Black Knight (1954) - High Priest
  • Invitation to the Dance (1956) - The Husband in 'Ring Around the Rosy'
  • Port Afrique (1956) - Le Badinage Patron (uncredited)
  • The Battle of the River Plate (1956) - Customs Officer (uncredited, Last appearance)

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=David Paltenghi|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba2ba9d3f|website=BFI|accessdate=29 October 2014}}
2. ^{{cite book|author1=Arnold Lionel Haskell|author2=Mary Clarke|title=The Ballet Annual: A Record and Year Book of the Ballet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CIo7AAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Adam and Charles Black}}
3. ^{{cite book|author=Jane Stevenson|title=Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYh2zfWyg10C&pg=PA329|year=2008|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-09-950166-4|pages=328–329}}
4. ^{{cite book|author=John Howard Reid|title=British Movie Entertainments on Vhs and Dvd: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mh2fAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA226|date=November 2010|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-0-557-58275-4|page=226}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Jake Paltenghi|url=http://www.jakepaltenghi.com/about.html|website=Jake Paltenghi|accessdate=29 October 2014}}
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