Luigi Maggi (21 December 1867 – 22 August 1946) was an Italian actor and film director who worked prolifically during the

silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. Working for

Ambrosio Film Ambrosio Film was an Italian film production and distribution company which played a leading role in Italian cinema during the silent era. Established in Turin in 1906 by the pioneering filmmaker Arturo Ambrosio, assisted by cinematographers Gi ...

he co-directed the 1908 hit film ''

The Last Days of Pompeii ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting '' The Last Day of Pompeii'' by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. It culminates in ...

'', which launched the

historical epic Epic films are a style of filmmaking with large-scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle. The usage of the term has shifted over time, sometimes designating a film genre and at other times simply synonymous with big-budget filmmaking. Like epics in ...

as a popular Italian genre.Moliterno p.6

Selected filmography

Director

*'' Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei'' (''The Last Days of Pompeii'') (1908) *'' Nerone'' (''Nero'') (1909) *' (1909) *'' Il guanto'' (''The Glove'') (1910), a rediscovered lost film *' (''After Fifty Years'', ''The Golden Wedding'') (1911) * ''The Queen of Nineveh'' (1911) *' (1914), with

Paola Pezzaglia Paolina Pezzaglia Greco (13 September 1886 – 17 December 1925) was an Italian theatre and film actress. Early life Pezzaglia was the only daughter of the VIP hair-stylist Gerolamo Pezzaglia (1854–1899) and Adelinda Monti (1854– ...

*' (1924)

References

Sources

*Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. *Winkler, Martin M. ''Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic''. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

External links

* 1867 births 1946 deaths Italian male film actors Italian film directors Actors from Turin 20th-century Italian male actors Film people from Turin {{Italy-film-bio-stub