Guido Brignone

Guido Brignone (actually Giuda Brignone , born December 6, 1886 in Milan , † March 6, 1959 in Rome ) was an Italian actor , film director and screenwriter .

Life

He was born in Milan as the son of the theater and later film actor Giuseppe Brignone . Like his older sister Mercedes , Guido devoted himself to an artistic career at an early age and initially became a theater actor. He gained his first stage experience with Mercedes. In 1914 he moved to Rome with his wife Lola Visconti, who died in 1924, where the couple sometimes became artistically active together.

In 1915 Brignone began his career as a director with the silent film Odette , followed by popular film adaptations. In the mid-1920s he made a name for himself in German-speaking countries with his Maciste films and finally emigrated to Germany via France in 1927 due to a serious crisis in Italian cinema. Five feature film productions were made here. In 1930 he returned to Italy, where he directed further production until 1958, some of which experienced a commercially successful film exploitation.

He is the father of actress Lilla Brignone .

Awards

Brignone was the first Italian director to win the Coppa Mussolini for Best National Film ( Teresa Confalonieri , 1934) at the Venice International Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

• 1925: Maciste in Hell ( Maciste all'inferno )
• 1926: The great circus disaster ( Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni )
• 1927: Maciste, the hero of the mountains ( Il Gigante delle Dolomite )
• 1928: Mary's great secret
• 1929: devotion
• 1929: The Man Who Doesn't Love
• 1930: The experience of one night
• 1931: Rubacuori
• 1933: La voce lontana
• 1934: Teresa Confalonieri
• 1935: Lorenzino de 'Medici ( Lorenzino de' Medici )
• 1937: Vivere
• 1938: Gli uomini non sono ingrati
• 1939: La mia canzone al vento
• 1941: mother ( mamma )
• 1941: Tragedy of a great love ( Vertigine )
• 1943: Maria Malibran
• 1945: The Holy Oath ( Monaca Santa )
• 1949: Il bacio di una morta
• 1950: The Naples Rebel ( Il conte di Sant'Elmo )
• 1950: Destiny in the Moor ( Il nido di falasco )
• 1951: Ingrateful Heart ( Core 'ngrato )
• 1952: Why did you betray me? ( L'inganno )
• 1953: Forgive me Madonna (Noi peccatori)
• 1953: The meat is weak (Bufere)
• 1954: The Son of the White Devil (Ivan il figlio del diavolo bianco)
• 1957: The female slaves of Carthage (Le schiave di Cartagine)
• 1959: Under the sign of Rome (Nel segno di Roma) 1

Web links

• Guido Brignone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography on mymovies.it (Italian)