Alfredo Donelli was a leading Italian cinematographer who worked on a number of silent films including the largely abandoned Italian-shot scenes of MGM's blockbuster Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). For Italian studios he worked on big-budget epics such as Quo Vadis (1924) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1926).^[1]

Along with Edmundo Orlandi he invented the Avia compact camera.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Francesca da Rimini (1922)
• Quo Vadis (1924)
• The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
• The Storyteller of Venice (1929)
• Girls Do Not Joke (1929)