Brian De Palma
De Palma in 2006, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Brian Russell De Palma
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 11, 1940
Ethnicity: Italian
Brian De Palma is an American director and screenwriter. He has directed the films Murder a la Mod, Greetings, The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom!, Dionysus in ’69, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, Carrie (1976), The Fury (1978), Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface (1983), Body Double, Wise Guys, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Raising Cain, Carlito’s Way, Mission: Impossible, Snake Eyes (1998), Mission to Mars, Femme Fatale, The Black Dahlia, Redacted, Passion (2012), and Domino (2019). He also wrote his films Murder a la Mod, Hi, Mom!, Phantom of the Paradise, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Raising Cain, Femme Fatale, Passion, and Redacted, and co-wrote Greetings, The Wedding Party, Sisters, and Body Double.
He is the son of Vivienne (Muti) and Anthony F. DePalma (Anthony Federico DePalma), who was an orthopedic surgeon, humanitarian, professor, and teacher. He has a daughter with his former wife, producer Gale Anne Hurd; and a daughter with his former wife Darnell Gregorio.
Brian’s paternal grandfather was Federico Antonio De Palma (the son of Giuseppe De Palma and Giuseppa Caranfa). Federico was born, c. 1853/1855, in Alberona, Province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy.
Brian’s maternal grandparents likely were Salvatore Muti and Nellie. Salvatore and Nellie were Italian.
Sources: Birth record of Brian’s paternal grandfather, Federico Antonio De Palma – https://familysearch.org
Brian’s mother on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
He was also married to Nancy Allen, who has a Birthday today. She’s famous enough to have a page on here, but there isn’t a lot of info on her ancestry… except that her father Eugene Allen was a lieutenant in the NYPD and her mother’s name was Florence.
“Allen was born on June 24, 1950[1] in the Bronx borough of New York City, the youngest of three children of Eugene and Florence Allen. Her father was a police lieutenant.[2] Allen was raised on 196th Street in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx.[3]”
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=allen&p=nancy+anne
He was born to Anthony Federico DePalma (the son of Federico Antonio De Palma) and Vivienne Muti.
Federico Antonio was born c. 1853/1855 to Giuseppe De Palma and Giuseppa Caranfa in Alberona, Province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy.
Brian’s maternal grandparents were evidently Nellie and Salvatore Muti, and they were both Italian.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X46Q-FGS
Record of his paternal grandfather
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XVR5-TRF