Domenico Gambino

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Domenico Bartolomeo Maria Gambino (born May 17, 1890 in Turin , † April 16, 1968 in Rome ) was an Italian actor and film director .

Life

Gambino began his acting career in the circus, then in the dialect theater of Turin. In 1909 he came to film as a double and played the female parts in the grotesques around the character "Cretinetti" by the actor and director André Deed (as was not unusual at the time). As a result, he developed his own comic character, "Saltarelli", which he refined in the years 1911 to 1913 in film and on the stage. He also played in other cinema works, for example for Giovanni Pastrone in z. B. Cabiria , worked as a stuntman and comic scene consultant. After his career was interrupted by the First World War , Gambino founded "Delta Film" and brought his most famous character, "Saetta", to the screen for the first time, whom he interpreted in numerous sensational films in which he met other famous characters, such as Sherlock Holmes , Goliath or Maciste . He also directed some of these films himself. He gave up a production company founded especially for these films in 1920 after three films.

When the Italy of the fascisti asked Gambino for a saetta fascista , the artist refused and went to Germany in 1928, where he only made three films, and to Czechoslovakia. In 1935 he returned to Italy and played for Giuseppe Guarino in the self-written Un bacio a fior d'acqua ; he also directed several works. After the Second World War , he rarely had the opportunity to present his talent; In addition to a few roles for other filmmakers, he also made three films as a director, which were decorative but no longer of artistic interest.

Gambino was married to Rosa Cirillo and then the partner of Pina Majelli . His son Jacky Gambino was also an actor.

Filmography (selection)

actor

  • 1911: Saltarelli ha preso un bagno nel caucciù
  • 1914: Cabiria (Cabiria)
  • 1920: Saetta
  • 1936: Un bacio a fior d'acqua

Director

  • 1917: La spirale della morte
  • 1928: The last gala performance of the Wolfsohn Circus
  • 1939: Lotte nell'ombra (also screenplay)
  • 1941: To the black panther (La pantera nera)
  • 1954: La Luciana

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data after research by Roberto Chiti, who viewed the original documents; other details are incorrect. See Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano , I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 192
  2. ↑ http://www.torinocittadelcinema.it/schedapersonaggio.php?personaggio_id=2483&area=P&stile=small&iniziale=S&pag=1&ordine=asc
  3. ↑ Michele Giordano: Giganti buoni: da Ercole a Piedone ... Gremese 1998, p. 15.
  4. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano , I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 191
personal data
SURNAME Gambino, Domenico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gambino, Domenico Bartolomeo Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1968
Place of death Rome , Italy