Domenico Gambino

Domenico Gambino
Gambino and Elli Parvo in the set of La donna perduta (1940)
Born	Domenico Maria Gambino (1890-05-17)17 May 1890 Turin, Piedmont Italy
Died	17 April 1968(1968-04-17) (aged 77)[1] Rome, Lazio Italy
Occupation(s)	Actor Screenwriter Director
Years active	1912-1954 (film)

Domenico Gambino (17 May 1890 – 17 April 1968) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.

Gambino played Saetta, one of the rival strongman heroes to Maciste.[2] Saetta had his own series of films during the early 1920s. He directed the 1931 German film A Storm Over Zakopane.[3]

Selected filmography

Actor

• Cabiria (1914)
• Saetta Saves the Queen (1920)
• Chief Saetta (1924)
• Emperor Maciste (1924)
• Saetta Learns to Live (1924)
• Thieves (1928)
• I Lost My Heart on a Bus (1929)
• A Storm Over Zakopane (1931)
• All is at Stake (1932)
• His Young Wife (1945)

Director

• The Last Performance of the Circus Wolfson (1928)
• Affair at the Grand Hotel (1929)
• A Storm Over Zakopane (1931)
• Battles in the Shadow (1938)
• The Secret of Villa Paradiso (1940)
• The Black Panther (1942)
• Return to Naples (1949)

Screenwriter

• Tragic Serenade (1951)

References

1. [Roberto Poppi, « I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri, pg. 192 ]
2. Munich p.237
3. Skaff p.75-76

Bibliography

• Munich, Adrienne. Fashion in Film. Indiana University Press, 2011.
• Skaff, Sheila. The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939. Ohio University Press, 2008.

External links

• Works by or about Domenico Gambino at the Internet Archive
• Domenico Gambino at IMDb