Giacomo Gentilomo

Giacomo Gentilomo (5 April 1909 – 16 April 2001) was an Italian film director and painter.

Born in Trieste, at very young age Gentilomo moved to Rome, where at 21 years old he entered the cinema industry, working as a script survivor and an assistant director.^[1] Active between 1933 and 1937 as a film editor, in 1939 he debuted as a director with Il Carnevale di Venezia.^[1] In 1945 his film O sole mio got critical acclaim, but later his career was mainly devoted to genre films, and failed to achieve significant critical interest.^[1] Dissatisfied with cinema, in the mid-1960s Gentilomo decided to abandon films and to fulfill his passion for painting.^[1]

Filmography

• Maciste e la regina di Samar (1964)
• Le verdi bandiere di Allah (1964)
• Brenno il nemico di Roma (1963)
• I lancieri neri (1962)
• The Last of the Vikings (1961)
• Maciste contro il vampiro (1961)
• Il cavaliere senza terra (1958)
• Sigfrido (1957)
• La trovatella di Pompei (1957)
• Una voce una chitarra e un pò di luna (1956)
• Appassionatamente (1954)
• The Two Orphans (1954)
• Melodie immortali - Mascagni (1953)
• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1952)
• Atto d'accusa (1951)
• The Young Caruso (1951)
• El Sakr (1950)
• Ti ritroverò (1949)
• Biancaneve e i sette ladri (1949)
• Lo sparviero del Nilo (1949)
• I Fratelli Karamazoff (1947)
• Teheran (1946)
• Amanti in fuga (1946)
• O sole mio (1946)
• Tempesta d'anime (1946)
• In cerca di felicità (1944)
• Short Circuit (1943)
• Mater dolorosa (1943)
• Pazzo d'amore (1942)
• Finalmente soli (1942)
• Honeymoon (1941)
• Brivido (1941)
• La Granduchessa si diverte (1940)
• Ecco la radio! (1940)
• The Carnival of Venice (1939)
• Condottieri (directed by Luis Trenker, 1937)
• Sinfonia di Roma (1937, short)
• I Love You Only (directed by Mario Mattoli, 1935)
• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (directed by Nunzio Malasomma, 1934)

References

1. Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.