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Mario Bonnard

21 June 1889-22 March 1965, Rome

Younger brother of composer Julius Bonnard, begins as silent film actor, participating in numerous films, creating a recurring character, a type of Italian Dandies that inspire you to Ettore Petrolini speck of latin lover Gladstone. The first Director with movies the other me, and While the audience laughs, where he directs Ettore Petroini. After working for a few years in Germany, in Italy, back in 32 runs several films, portrayed by Assia Noris, Elsa Merlini, Amedeo Nazzari, Luisa Ferida, Enrico Viarisio, the most famous of which is the Fierce Saladin. Between ' 42 and ' 43 runs Ahead there is room, subject of Aldo Fabrizi and Cesare Zavattini, and Campo de' Fiori, with Fabrizi and Anna Magnani. After the war he directed: Fra Diavolo, and Packer historical plots the bridge of sighs, a city of sadness, and the last days of Pompeii, paused movie to a illness and then completed by Sergio Leone.

Director Filmography

1917/ Luxury train 

1917/ The other 

1919/ While the public Ridand 

1920/ Dad Lebonnard 

1920/ The Million

1920/ The red and black 

1920/ The friend 

1922/ The Newlywed Promises 

1924/ The laughing Mask 

1928/ Die Sünderin 

1929/ Mountain riders (Der Sohn der weißen Berge) 

1931/ Fra Diavolo 

1932/ Five Zero 

1933/ The Treaty Passed Away 

1934/ The Wedding March 

1935/ Territorial Militia 

1936/ The tree of Adam 

1937/ The Fierce Saladin 

1938/ The Earl of Bréchard 

1938/ Jeanne Doré 

1938/ Thirty seconds of love 

1939/ Frenzy 

1939/ Daddy for one night 

1939/ I am your father 

1940/ The maiden of Portici 

1940/ Dad Martin's Gerla 

1940/ The bridge of sighs 

1941/ The King has fun 

1941/ The man of the novel 

1941/ Marco Visconti