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Mario Guaita-Ausonia (1881-1956)

Alias:
Mario Ausonia
Mario Guaita

Birthplace:
Modena, Italy

Born:
January 1, 1881

Died:
January 1, 1956

Biography from TheMovieDB

Mario Guaita, also known by the pseudonym Mario Ausonia (1881 – 1956), was an Italian actor and director.  Guaita studied medicine and stopped his studies due to his hobby of powerlifting. He began performing in the theater with circus and vaudeville shows in Europe and America. In cinema he played strongman and acrobat roles for Pasquali Film and later for Gloria Film.  His greatest successes in action and adventure films are The Phantom Athlete (1919), Battle of the Giants (1919), Atlas (1920), The Amazon Belt (1920), The Billion Ship (1922) and The Pearl Fisherman (1923), of which he was also partly director. He made fifteen films with his screenwriter wife Renée Deliot in Italy and France, where they moved during the depression years of the Italian film industry in the early 1920s. Guaita's last film was in 1926 with Executioner in the Land of Gold. Subsequently he ran a cinema in Marseille.

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Director:
1920  Atlas. Episode 2: Accusation from beyond the grave
1920  The Belt of the Amazons
1921  Sotto I Ponti Di Parigi
1922  Frisson
1922  La nave dei miliardi
1923  Gli Spettri Della Fattoria
1923  Il pescatore di perle
1924  Dans Les Mansardes De Paris

Writer:
1920  Atlas. Episode 2: Accusation from beyond the grave
1920  The Belt of the Amazons
1921  Sotto I Ponti Di Parigi
1922  Frisson
1922  La nave dei miliardi
1923  Gli Spettri Della Fattoria
1923  Il pescatore di perle
1924  Dans Les Mansardes De Paris

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