Gero Zambuto (1887 – 1944) was an Italian

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.Goble p.236

Selected filmography

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'' (1913) * '' When Knights Were Bold'' (1916) * '' La Moglie di Claudio'' (1918) * ''

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Emperor Maciste ''Emperor Maciste'' (Italian: ''Maciste imperatore'') is a 1924 Italian silent adventure film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Bartolomeo Pagano, Domenico Gambino and Franz Sala. It was part of the peplum series of silent films featur ...

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Hands Off Me! ''Hands Off Me!'' () is a 1937 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Gero Zambuto.Moliterno p.179 The film is notable for being the screen début of Totò. Its most famous scenes include one in which he tries to give a haircut to a ...

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The Fornaretto of Venice ''The Fornaretto of Venice'' (Italian: ''Il fornaretto di Venezia'') is a 1939 Italian historical drama film directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Roberto Villa, Elsa De Giorgi and Clara Calamai.Forgacs & Gundle p.162 It is an adaptation of the ...

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Music on the Run ''Music on the Run'' (Italian: ''Fuga a due voci'') is a 1943 Italian " white-telephones" musical comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Gino Bechi, Irasema Dilián and Guglielmo Barnabò.Burke p.381 The film's sets were des ...

'' (1943) * ''

Macario Against Zagomar ''Macario Against Zagomar'' (Italian: ''Macario contro Zagomar''; also known as ''Macario Against Fantomas'') is a 1944 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Erminio Macario. Plot In Paris, the dreaded Zagomar kidnapped the ...

'' (1944)

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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* 1887 births 1944 deaths People from Grotte, Sicily Italian male film actors Italian male silent film actors 20th-century Italian male actors 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Italian film directors Actors from Sicily Film people from Sicily 20th-century Italian male writers {{Screen-writer-stub