Giacomo Gentilomo

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

Early life

He was born in Trieste. Gentilomo moved to Rome at a young age.

Career

At 21 years old he entered the cinema industry, working as a script surveyor and an assistant director. Active between 1933 and 1937 as a film editor, in 1939 he debuted as a director with Il Carnevale di Venezia. His 1945 film O sole mio got critical acclaim. His later career was mainly devoted to genre films, and failed to achieve significant critical interest. Dissatisfied with cinema, in the mid-1960s Gentilomo decided to abandon films and to instead fulfill his passion for painting.

Filmography

• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (directed by Nunzio Malasomma, 1934)
• I Love You Only (directed by Mario Mattoli, 1935)
• Music in the Square (1936)
• White Amazons (1936)
• Sinfonia di Roma (1937, short)
• Condottieri (directed by Luis Trenker, 1937)
• The Carnival of Venice (1939)
• Ecco la radio! (1940)
• La Granduchessa si diverte (1940)
• Thrill (1941)
• Honeymoon (1941)
• Finalmente soli (1942)
• Pazzo d'amore (1942)
• Mater dolorosa (1943)
• Short Circuit (1943)
• In cerca di felicità (1944)
• Tempesta d'anime (1946)
• O sole mio (1946)
• The Lovers (1946)
• Tehran (1946)
• The Brothers Karamazov (1947)
• Snow White and the Seven Thieves (1949)
• Hawk of the Nile (1950)
• Ti ritroverò (1949)
• El Sakr (1950)
• The Accusation (1950)
• The Young Caruso (1951)
• Immortal Melodies (1952)
• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953)
• The Two Orphans (1954)
• Appassionatamente (1954)
• Una voce una chitarra e un pò di luna (1956)
• La trovatella di Pompei (1957)
• The Dragon's Blood (1957)
• Knight Without a Country (1959)
• Maciste contro il vampiro (1961)
• The Last of the Vikings (1961)
• Charge of the Black Lancers (1962)
• Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963)
• Slave Girls of Sheba (1963)
• Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

External links

• Giacomo Gentilomo at IMDb