Giuseppe de Liguoro

Biography

Giuseppe de Liguoro (1869–1944) was an Italian actor and film director of the silent era. He came from an aristocratic neapolitan family. De Liguoro was a pioneering figure of early Italian cinema, making a number of historical films in early 1910s such as L'Inferno (1911) and Mary Tudor (1911). Description above from the Wikipedia article Giuseppe de Liguoro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list o...

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Birthday: January 10, 1869

Passed: March 19, 1944

Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy

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The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.

Dante's Inferno

1911

6.6

Film adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey.'

L'Odissea

1911

7.3

Directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro.

Count Ugolino

1908

4.0

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