Born in
Messina,
Sicily, Vasile started working as a playwright and a theatre director in the early 1940s. After being assistant of
Augusto Genina, starting from the mid-1940s he wrote a number of screenplays for films directed by
Mario Camerini,
Eduardo De Filippo,
Gianni Franciolini and
Alessandro Blasetti. From the 1950s Vasile focused into producing, and produced many
art films by notable directors such as
Federico Fellini,
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Dino Risi,
Luigi Comencini,
Antonio Pietrangeli,
Franco Brusati. He was also active as a film director, a film critic and an author, and he was president of the National Institute of Ancient Drama. ==Selected filmography==