Giovanni Pastrone

Birthday: 1883-09-13
Deathday: 1959-06-27
Birthplace: Montechiaro d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy
Gender: Male

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Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 - 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician.

Pastrone was born in Montechiaro d'Asti. He worked during the era of the silent film, but he influenced many important directors in the international cinema, such as David Wark Griffith, in his Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).

He died in Turin on 27 June 1959.

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Credits

Year Title
1923-12-01 Povere bimbe
1920-08-01 Hedda Gabler
1918-12-11 La Moglie di Claudio
1918-05-02 Maciste atleta
1917-04-15 The War and the Dream of Momi
1916-12-06 The Warrior
1916-11-09 The Royal Tigress
1916-04-16 The Fire
1914-06-01 Cabiria
1913-10-15 Stronger than Sherlock Holmes
1912-08-31 At the Cinema Show
1911-03-16 The Fall of Troy
1910-01-01 Agnese Visconti
1909-11-08 Enrico III
1909-10-16 Julius Caesar