Roberto Bianchi Montero
Roberto Bianchi Montero (7 December 1907 - 7 December 1986) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Bianchi Montero started acting as a teenager on stage and he was a member of an amateur theater group with whom he performed in several festivals.[1] In 1930 he entered the stage company of Ettore Petrolini, and in 1934 he founded his own company.[1][2] In 1936 he got his first film role, and in the late 1930s he also was assistant director for a number of films.[1]
After the Second World War, Bianchi Montero directed numerous genre films, usually low-budget productions, in which he often also collaborated to the screenplays.[1][2] He particularly specialized in melodramas, spaghetti westerns and Commedia sexy all'italiana films. He was the father of the director Mario Bianchi.[2][3]
Selected filmography
- After Casanova's Fashion (1942)
- Faddija – La legge della vendetta (1949)
- The Cliff of Sin (1950)
- The Island Monster (1954)
- La sceriffa (1959)
- La Pica sul Pacifico (1959)
- Oklahoma John (1965)
- Desperate Mission (1965)
- The Battle of the Damned (Quella dannata pattuglia) (1968)
- 36 Hours to Hell (1969)
- Eye of the Spider (1971)
- So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
- The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia (1982)
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