Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone (6 December 1886 – 6 March 1959) was an Italian film director and actor. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone and younger brother of actress Mercedes Brignone. Brignone was born in Milan.
Guido Brignone
Film diretto da Guido Brignone e prodotto da Cines · Film illustrazione 1933 · Public domain
- Born
- 1886. · Milan.
- Died
- 1959. · Rome.
- Nationality
- Italy and Kingdom of Italy.
- Occupation
- actor, screenwriter, film editor and director.
- Honours
- Mussolini Cup.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Guido Brignone (6 December 1886 – 6 March 1959) was an Italian film director and actor. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone and younger brother of actress Mercedes Brignone. Brignone was born in Milan.
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He was the first Italian director to win at the Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world then at its second edition, with Best Italian Film for Teresa Confalonieri (1934). He died in Rome.
Odette (1916) The Painting of Osvaldo Mars (1921) The Two Sergeants (1922) Emperor Maciste (1924) Saetta Learns to Live (1924) Maciste in Hell (1925) Maciste in the Lion's Cage (1926) The Giant of the Dolomites (1927) Mary's Big Secret (1928) Devotion (1929) The Man Without Love (1929) Before the Jury (1931) The Charmer (1931) La Wally (1932) Pergolesi (1932) Paradise (1932) Loyalty of Love (1934) The Little Schoolmistress (1934) Just Married (1934) Red Passport (1935) Ginevra degli Almieri (1935) Beggar's Wedding (1936) The Ancestor (1936) To Live (1937) Marcella (1937) For Men Only (1938) Under the Southern Cross (1938) Kean (1940) Disturbance (1942) The Gorgon (1942) Maria Malibran (1943) Baron Carlo Mazza (1948) Buried Alive (1949) The Ungrateful Heart (1951) Deceit (1952) Storms (1953) Ivan, Son of the White Devil (1953) Sunset in Naples (1955) The Courier of Moncenisio (1956)
Elio Steiner and Tina Lattanzi in a scene from Pergolesi, a 1932 film directed by Guido Brignone.
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1923
A fuga de Sócrates (Guido Brignone, ITA, 1923) (1923) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1923
A fuga de Sócrates (Guido Brignone, ITA, 1923) digitised by Internet Archive.
1959
Guido Brignone died in 1959 at Rome.
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- 1.Gino Moliterno. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. 53. 29 September 2008. 978-0-8108-6254-8.
- 2.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 288. .
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