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Giusi Raspani Dandolo was born on 23 August 1916 in Trani, Puglia, Italy. She was an actress, known for David Copperfield (1965), Rita the Mosquito (1966) and Knock o Il trionfo della medicina (1967). She died on 14 January 2000 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Witold Stok was born on 14 June 1946 in Trani, Puglia, Italy. He is a cinematographer and director, known for W bialy dzien (1981), Viva Belarus! (2013) and The Rector's Wife (1994).

Samantha Cito was born in Trani, Puglia, Italy. Samantha is known for From the Sidelines (2020), In zona Cesarini (2018) and The Barefoot Princess: Oriental Bellydance (2013).

Luigi Chiarelli was born on 7 July 1880 in Trani, Puglia, Italy. He was a writer, known for Under the Southern Cross (1938), Luisa Sanfelice (1942) and Circe moderna (1914). He died on 20 December 1947 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Leone Di Lernia was born on 18 April 1938 in Trani, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Sabato, domenica e venerdì (1979), Mario (2013) and Leone Auz (2011). He was married to Nenna Rosa. He died on 28 February 2017 in Milan, Italy.

Entrepreneurial Italian producer and administrator, who was responsible for creating some of the most quintessentially British films made in the 1940's. Del Guidice came from a legal background, having worked for the Vatican. He left his native country in 1933, in part, because of financial difficulties, but also due to deep-felt disaffection with the Fascist regime. He settled in London, first as a teacher of Italian, then setting up his own law practice. Four years later, he had found the financial backing to establish Two Cities Films in conjunction with the director Mario Zampi. The success of his first venture, Noël Coward's In Which We Serve (1942), secured the patronage of J. Arthur Rank and led to other ambitious projects, including Blithe Spirit (1945), Johnny in the Clouds (1945) and Odd Man Out (1947). Raising the finances for the production of Laurence Olivier's patriotic epic Henry V (1944) -- in all, 470,000 pounds -- forced him to surrender controlling interest in the company to the Rank Organisation.

After the expensive failure of Men of Two Worlds (1946), Rank sought to establish tighter financial and artistic control over Two Cities. Unhappy, Del Guidice resigned in 1947. For a short time, he lived in seclusion at a monastery, but soon emerged to establish a new company, Pilgrim Pictures Limited. Under his administrative auspices, Pilgrim produced just three films -- The Outsider (1948), Private Angelo (1949) and Chance of a Lifetime (1950) -- all opened to mixed critical reviews and none recouped their cost at the box office. After the British Home Office refused his application for another visa in 1958, Del Guidice made several unsuccessful attempts to raise money for other projects in America and Italy. However, he never made another film and died penniless in Florence five years later.

Riccardo Peloso was born in July 1943 in Trani, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Mussolini and I (1985). He died on 21 February 2012 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.