Franco "Kim" Arcalli (13 March 1929 – 24 February 1978) was an Italian film editor and screenwriter best known for his work with Bernardo Bertolucci, Tinto Brass and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Born in Rome by a Venetian family, his last name was Orcalli, but he was wrongly recorded as Arcalli by the officer of the Registry, and the error was never corrected.
[1] Arcalli stepped into the world of cinema in 1954 as an actor, playing a small role in Luchino Visconti's Senso.
[2] In these years he started some critically acclaimed collaborations with directors Giulio Questi, Salvatore Samperi, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and specially Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900) and Michelangelo Antonioni (Zabriskie Point, The Passenger).
[1][2] Arcalli died of cancer in 1978, at 48, while he was engaged in the writing process of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America and Bernardo Bertolucci's La Luna.