Bartolomeo Pagano
Bartolomeo Pagano ( born September 27, 1878 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy, † June 24, 1947 ) was an Italian actor.
Life
Pagano worked as dockers and was spotted by film director Piero Fosco in Genoa port. This offered him the role of muscular African slave Maciste in the epic film Cabiria (1914 ). Due to the popularity of this figure Giovanni Pastrone began to turn a series of Maciste films in which Pagano fights as a strong, now white man for good in 1915. In alpino Maciste (1916 ) he defeated - in the First World War - the Austrians. In the early 1920s, the simple scheme of action had already been exhausted and the economic decline of the Italian film industry after World War II restricted Pagano's perspective in his homeland. He went to Germany and was there 1922/23, in four German Maciste productions front of the camera. In his role in Carl Boese Maciste and the Chinese chest, he was also depicted by the famous Berlin photographer Frieda Riess.
Since the success was only moderate in Germany, Pagano went back to Italy in 1923, and received by the producer Stefano Pittaluga a commitment to a new Maciste series. His most famous film of this later work phase was Maciste all'inferno (1925 ) by Guido Brignone, in which the main character between two devils is torn.
It was not until 1927, Baldassarre Negronis costume drama Il vetturale del Mont Cenis to Bartolomeo Pagano was able to solve his role as Maciste, but already in the following year he retired completely for health reasons of the film work back.