Natural into a nobleman & affluent personal, the Visconti (one of the richest of northern Italy), inside Milan, at the age of Xxx he attend Paris and began his filmmaking career as third adjunct director within Jean Renoir's Une partie de campagne (1936), thanks to the intercession of a most common friend, Coco Chanel. Fallowing the short tour to the U.S., where he visited Hollywood, he returned to Italy to be Renoir's assistant again, this time for La Tosca (1939), a production that was interrupted and later completed by German director Karl Koch because of the war.

Together by owning Roberto Rossellini, Visconti joined the salotto of Vittorio Mussolini (the boy of Benito, at a period the national arbiter for cinema & more arts) & on text presumptively met likewise Federico Fellini. By having Gianni Puccini, Antonio Pietrangeli & Giuseppe De Santis he wrote a screenplay of his number one film as a director: Ossessione (Obsession) (1943), the number 1 neorealist movie.

Visconti was besides the celebrated director. When you took a years 1946-1960 he directed numbers of performances of the Rina Morelli-Paolo Stoppa Company, with Vittorio Gassmann, and many operas, including a illustrious revival of Donizetti's Anna Bolena at La Scala in 1957 with Maria Callas.

Within 1948, he wrote and directed La terra trema (The Globe Trembles), from either a novel I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga.

He died around Rome at age 69.

Selected filmography
Ossessione (1943) (based on James M. Cain's 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice) Giorni di Gloria (1945) La Terra trema (1950) Bellissima (1951) Senso (Livia) (1954) Le notti bianche (White Nights) (1957) Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers) (1960) ''Boccaccio '70 (1961) (based on Boccaccio's Decamerone) Il Gattopardo (The Leopard'') (1963) (based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel Il Gattopardo) ''Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Sandra of a Thousand Delights) (1965) Lo Straniero (1967) La caduta degli dei (The Damnably) (1969) Morte a Venezia (Death within Venice) (1971) (based on Thomas Mann's novel) Ludwig (1972) Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (Conversation Piece) (1974) L'Innocente (The Innocent'') (1976)

Bibliographies
[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/italianfilmbib.html#visconti Visconti bibliography] (via UC Berkeley)