Gabriellino D'Annunzio
Gabriele Maria D'Annunzio | |
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Born | Gabriele Maria D'Annunzio 10 April 1886 Rome, Italy |
Died | 8 December 1945 Rome, Italy | (aged 59)
Occupation | Actor, Writer, Director |
Years active | 1910 – 1925 (film) |
Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father.[1] In 1924 he co-directed the epic Quo Vadis with Georg Jacoby, but the project was a commercial failure and he retired from filmmaking. He died on 8 December 1945 at 59 years old, due to a disease that afflicted him.
Selected filmography[]
References[]
- ^ Brunetta p.60
Bibliography[]
- Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.
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- 1886 births
- 1945 deaths
- Italian male film actors
- Italian film directors
- 20th-century Italian screenwriters
- Italian male screenwriters
- Writers from Rome
- 20th-century Italian male actors
- Disease-related deaths in Lazio
- 20th-century Italian male writers
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