Background
At fifteen, after the death of his father killed by the fascists, Arcalli moved to Venice where he collaborated with the partisans.
Actor film editor screenwriter
At fifteen, after the death of his father killed by the fascists, Arcalli moved to Venice where he collaborated with the partisans.
Born in Rome by a Venetian family, his last name was Orcalli, but he was wrongly recorded as Arcalli by the officer of the Registry, and the error was never corrected. Arcalli stepped into the world of cinema in 1954 as an actor, playing a small role in Luchino Visconti"s Senso. Arcalli later moved to Rome, where in a few years he imposed himself as a "creative" editor, and even working in the employ of the film company Euro International Film he got the power of choice for the films to work on.
In these years he started some critically acclaimed collaborations with directors Giulio Questi, Salvatore Samperi, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and specially Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900) and Michelangelo Antonioni (Zabriskie Point, The Passenger).
Arcalli died of cancer in 1978, at 48, while he was engaged in the writing process of Sergio Leone"s Once Upon a Time in America and Bernardo Bertolucci"s Louisiana Luna.