Alfredo Leone is a film producer and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Leone was elected to The Lambs in 1962. After a period away from the Club, he rejoined in 1997. He is a Theatrical Member.
Leone was born in Brooklyn on November 30, 1926. Before entering motion pictures, he was worked in real estate development. While a Lamb in the 1960s, Leone was a business partner with a Brother Lamb, Eddie Bracken. Leone produced a Lambs Gambol.
In addition to producing movies, he became creatively involved in the development of the cinema of filmmaker Mario Bava, a pioneer of the Italian Science Fiction (Planet of the Vampires, 1965) and Giallo Horror (Black Sabbath) genres. It was Leone who found and rented for Bava the Bavarian castle to shoot the Joseph Cotten horror movie, Baron Blood (1972). With the success of Baron Blood, Leone gave Mario Bava free reign to make his next film, Lisa and the Devil (1973) with Telly Savalas and Elke Sommer. However, when the movie failed to sell, Leone retitled it as House of Exorcism to ride upon the runaway success of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. He continues to be active to the present day.
Leone served on the Lambs’ Council. While a resident of Los Angeles, he owned and operated La Cage. He also patented a device to count the number of plays of a video cassette.