Roberto Bianchi Montero (7 December 1907 – 7 December 1986) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
Roberto Bianchi Montero | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 December 1907 |
| Died | 7 December 1986 (aged 79) Italy |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, film director, actor |
Life and career
editBorn in Rome, Bianchi Montero started acting as a teenager on stage and he was a member of an amateur theater group with whom he performed in several festivals.[1] In 1930 he entered the stage company of Ettore Petrolini, and in 1934 he founded his own company.[1][2] In 1936 he got his first film role, and in the late 1930s he also was assistant director for a number of films.[1]
After the Second World War, Bianchi Montero directed numerous genre films, usually low-budget productions, in which he often also collaborated to the screenplays.[1][2] He particularly specialized in melodramas, Spaghetti Westerns and Commedia sexy all'italiana films. He was the father of the director Mario Bianchi.[2][3]
Selected filmography
edit- Battles in the Shadow (1938)
- Then We'll Get a Divorce (1940)
- The Secret of Villa Paradiso (1940)
- After Casanova's Fashion (1942)
- Faddija – La legge della vendetta (1949)
- The Cliff of Sin (1950)
- A Mother Returns (1952)
- The Island Monster (1954)
- Goodbye Naples (1955)
- La sceriffa (1959)
- La Pica sul Pacifico (1959)
- Between Shanghai and St. Pauli (1962)
- Tharus Son of Attila (1962)
- Mondo Balordo (1964) documentary, released in U.S. 1966
- Oklahoma John (1965)
- Desperate Mission (1965)
- The Last Tomahawk (1965)
- Seven Pistols for a Gringo (1966)
- Blueprint for a Massacre (1967)
- The Battle of the Damned (Quella dannata pattuglia) (1969)
- 36 Hours to Hell (1969)
- The Rangers (Rangers attacco ora X, 1970)
- Eye of the Spider (1971)
- So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
- The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia (1982)
References
edit- ^ a b c d Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
- ^ a b c Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-8804572770.
- ^ Louis Paul (8 June 2015). Italian Horror Film Directors. McFarland, 2004. ISBN 978-0786487493.
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