Born Prince Alessandro Tasca di Cutò into an aristocratic family of Norman origin, cousin of the author Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of the classic novel The Leopard, adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon. Alessandro Tasca's father, a womanizing Socialist politician known as 'The Red Prince', devoured the family's fortune to realize his ideals. Tasca emigrated to New York and worked as a car mechanic, a bootlegger's driver, a cashier for the Saratoga racetrack and a runner on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the Wall Street crash of 1929. After the outbreak of WW2, Alessandro returned to Rome and was assigned to the Ministry of Propaganda where he met Ezra Pound. Alessandro was later interned in an English-run POW camp in Southern Italy. After the war Tasca, was hired to work in the film industry to ease Anglo-American productions through the horrors of Italian bureaucracy. In 1946 he met Orson Welles who was to become a lifelong friend. Over the next forty years he worked on several of Welles' films both in Europe and later on in America, among others Chimes at Midnight and Don Quixote. Tasca also worked with some of the great names of international cinema over his long career: John Huston, Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Gina Lollobrigida, and many others. Tasca's singular adaptability was observed by the distinguished Italian writer, Luigi Barzini of The Italians fame, who dubbed Tasca the 'bourgeois' prince in an essay on his cousin Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
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Biography from IMDb.
- July 21, 1906 (120)
- Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- Producer and actor
- 10 on MovieCove · 14 credits in all
Known for
What are Alessandro Tasca's films like?
Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 7
A split, not a type: Light 3 · Serious 2 · Dark 3
Grounded 1 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 2
Gentle 0 · Charged 6 · Intense 2
Steady 3 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 1
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 1
Casual 1 · Engaged 6 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 3 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 3
Resolved 7 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet5
- Tragic1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Alessandro Tasca's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Alessandro Tasca's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
14 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.
Don Quixote(1992)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all shows
Iguana(1988)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Redneck(1973)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Chimes at Midnight(1965)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
In the Land of Don Quixote (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
I Am Semiramis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1963)
War Gods of Babylon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)
The Changing of the Guard (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)
Goliath and the Dragon(1960)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
The Great Manhunt(1950)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 10 titles from 1950 to 1992.
Biggest box office
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Highest rated
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Most popular right now
Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
Film career
- 1965Screen debut· The Gospel According to St. Matthew
How do Alessandro Tasca's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 49th percentile, the median of all 9; across their 8 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 47th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 10 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the acting 64/100 in their films, across 8 reviewed titles; fans 76, detractors 37. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Alessandro Tasca work with?
People who share at least 2 of Alessandro Tasca's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Daniele Lorenzano shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Orson WellesShared titles: Don Quixote (1992), Chimes at Midnight (1965)See all 2 shared titles with Orson Welles
Writers
- Bob ShayneShared titles: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)See all 2 shared titles with Bob Shayne
Actors
- Christopher LeeShared titles: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)See all 2 shared titles with Christopher Lee
- Patrick MacneeShared titles: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)See all 2 shared titles with Patrick Macnee
Cinematographers and editors
- Edmond RichardShared titles: Don Quixote (1992), Chimes at Midnight (1965)See all 2 shared titles with Edmond Richard
- Giorgio TontiShared titles: Don Quixote (1992), Redneck (1973)See all 2 shared titles with Giorgio Tonti
- Peter ParashelesShared titles: Around the World in 80 Days (1989), Chimes at Midnight (1965)See all 2 shared titles with Peter Parasheles
Producers
- Daniele LorenzanoShared titles: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991), Around the World in 80 Days (1989)See all 3 shared titles with Daniele Lorenzano
- Frank AgramaShared titles: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991), Around the World in 80 Days (1989)See all 3 shared titles with Frank Agrama
- Mirjana MijojlicShared titles: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991), Around the World in 80 Days (1989)See all 3 shared titles with Mirjana Mijojlic
- Harry Alan TowersShared titles: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)See all 2 shared titles with Harry Alan Towers
