Bassi, Rinaldo

(December 12, 1940, Asnières, Hauts-de-Seine, France - )

   After studying general mathematics, he was trained as an electronic manufacturing engineer and gradu­ated from ENRA in 1961. Then he served as assistant director (1959 Gli ultimi giorni di pompéi / Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi / Los ultimas dias de Pompeya / Die letz-ten Tagen von Pompeji / USA: The Last Days of Pompeii, Mario Bonnard, Sergio Leone, Italy / France / Spain / West Germany; 1961 Morgan il pirata / Morgan le Pirate / USA: Morgan, the Pirate, André de Toth, Primo Zeglio, Italy / France; Barraba / Barrabas, Richard Fleischer, Italy / USA; 1962 The Longest Day, Ken Annakin, An­drew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Elmo Williams, Darryl F. Zanuck, USA; 1964 The Train / Le Train / Il treno, John Frankenheimer, USA / France / Italy; The Fall of Roman Empire, Anthony Mann, USA; 1966 Paris brûle-t-il? / Is Paris Burning?, René Clément, France / USA; 1969 Les Chemins de Katmandou / Kat­mandu / UK: The Road to Katmandu / USA: The Pleasure Pit / Dirty Dolls in Kathmandu, France / Italy) and second unit director on films (1971 Kill / Kill: Matar / Kill! / USA: Kill! Kill! Kill!, Romain Gary, France / Spain / Italy / West Germany) and TV (1966 Les Corsaires / Corsaires et Flibustiers, 13 X 26', Claude Barma; Les Globe-Trotters, 39 X 30', Claude Boissol, Jack Pinoteau; L'Ile au Trésor / Die Schatzinsell, USA and Canada: Treasure Island, 13 X 26', Jacques Bourdon, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, France / West Germany; 1968 Les Secrets de la Mer Rouge, 13 X 26', Claude Guillemot, Pierre Lary; 1969 Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer / Tom Sawyers und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer / Aventurile lui Tom Sawer, 4 X 90', France / West Germany / Romania). He also was artistic direc­tor and coordinator of the three crews of La Légende de Bas de Cuir / Der Lederstrumpferzahlungen / Vinatorul de cerbi, 13 X 26', Jean Dréville, Pierre Gaspard-Huit, Sergiu Nicolaescu, France / West Germany / Romania (1970) and worked as an assistant to stage director Jean-Laurent Cochet for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (1968). He directed many commercials and several TV reports for ABC before running movie theaters in Paris (Kinoparama, Arlequin, Broadway Cinérama), Brussels (Variétés Cinérama), Lyon (Cinérama Con­grès), Marseille (Cinérama), and London (Cinerama). He created a film release company (Eagle Company International) in Paris and a production society in Los Angeles (B and G Productions). Having returned to France in 1991, he wrote articles in such reviews as La Revue du Son, L.E.D., Electronique parfait, Prestige Audio Vidéo, and Son Magazine. In 2000, he founded an audio, video, and hi-fi laboratory, the Laboratoire Bassi.

 Filmography

1969 ◘ Un Merveilleux Parfum d'Oseille / USA: All My Murders . . . (also co-adapter)

1974 ◘ Pourvu qu'on ait l'Ivresse / I piaceri della contessa Gamiani (as Reynald Bassi, also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France / Italy)

 Television Filmography

1969 ◘ Minouche (13 X 26'; co-director with Maurice Fasquel)

1976 ◘ Rock Around the Jazz (documentary; twelve-hour TV series; USA)

1992 ◘ Goal (39 X 26'; co-director with Nicolas Cahen, Roger Kahane, Christiane Léhérissey, Christiane Spiero)