Enrico Guazzoni
Enrico Guazzoni ( born September 18, 1876 in Rome, † September 24, 1949 ) was an Italian film director, outfitters, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Guazzoni worked as a painter after his training with honors at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and in 1907 with the interior of the "Il Moderno Cinema " - one of the first permanent theaters in Rome - commissioned. In the same year he acted as advisor for Edoardo Bencivengas Raffaello Sanzio e la fornarina and made his debut as a director with the film Un invito a pranzo. By the middle of the First World War, Guazzoni developed into a specialist in the genre of monumental histories and sandal movies. In addition to his work as a director he was mostly responsible as outfitter of his films. His greatest achievements of this period include La Gerusalemme Liberata (1911 ), Quo vadis? (1912 ) and Marc Antonio e Cleopatra (1913). From 1916 he was employed in addition to his work as a director and as a screenwriter with the film company Cines.
After one last great success, Fabiola from 1918 to Guazzoni engaged in their own film company as a producer and throttled his film output considerably. His cinematic works have already been in the late 1920s, but no later than the beginning of the sound era as antiquated. However Guazzoni continued to work with continuity and preserved his reputation as an actor - director also about the time of fascism beyond. He had a recent moderate success in 1940 with the daughter of the corsairs.