Domenico Gambino
Domenico Gambino (17 May 1890 – 17 April 1968) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Gambino played Saetta, one of the rival strongman heroes to Maciste. Saetta had his own series of films during the early 1920s.
Domenico Gambino
Cinema magazine, V, 93, 10 May 1940, p. 310. · Public domain
- Name
- Domenico Gambino
- Born
- 17 May 1890
- Birthplace
- Turin, Piedmont Italy
- Died
- 17 April 1968
- Place of death
- Rome, Lazio Italy
- Birth Name
- Domenico Maria Gambino
- Occupation
- Actor Screenwriter Director
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
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Domenico Gambino (17 May 1890 – 17 April 1968) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Gambino played Saetta, one of the rival strongman heroes to Maciste. Saetta had his own series of films during the early 1920s.
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Biography
He directed the 1931 German film A Storm Over Zakopane.
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• Name — Domenico Gambino • Born — 17 May 1890 • Birthplace — Turin, Piedmont Italy • Died — 17 April 1968 • Place of death — Rome, Lazio Italy • Birth Name — Domenico Maria Gambino • Occupation — Actor Screenwriter Director • Years Active — 1912–1954 (film)
Actor
Actor
• Cabiria (1914) • Saetta Saves the Queen (1920) • Chief Saetta (1924) • Emperor Maciste (1924) • Saetta Learns to Live (1924) • Thieves (1928) • I Lost My Heart on a Bus (1929) • A Storm Over Zakopane (1931) • All is at Stake (1932) • His Young Wife (1945)
Director
Director
• The Last Performance of the Circus Wolfson (1928) • Affair at the Grand Hotel (1929) • A Storm Over Zakopane (1931) • Battles in the Shadow (1938) • The Secret of Villa Paradiso (1940) • The Black Panther (1942) • Return to Naples (1949)
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1968
Domenico Gambino died on 16 April 1968.
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• Tragic Serenade (1951)
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- 1.Roberto Poppi, I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri, pág. 192
- 2.pagg. 15-16 del libro Giganti buoni: da Ercole a Piedone (e oltre) il mito dell'uomo forte nel cinema italiano, de M. Giordano, 1998, ed. Gremese
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