Mario Bonnard
Born: 1889-06-21 in Roma, Lazio, Italy
Died: 1965-03-22
Known For: Directing
Biography
Mario Bonnard (24 December 1889 – 22 March 1965) was an Italian actor and film director. Bonnard was born and died in Rome. He began his cinematic career as an actor becoming a popular romantic lead in numerous silent films made before World War I. In 1917, he ventured into film directing for the first time. Before the arrival of sound films he worked for a period in Germany in films directed by Luis Trenker. Back in Italy in 1932, he became a prolific director working with the major stars of the time as: Assia Noris, Elsa Merlini, Amedeo Nazzari, and Luisa Ferida. Il feroce Saladino (1937) was the most popular of his films of the 1930s. During the war he continued to work. In the post World War II period his films, ranging from comedies to period dramas enjoyed much success. However, today he's no longer well known. One of his last films was The Last Days of Pompeii (1959). An illness made him leave production early, so the film was completed by Sergio Leone. His brother was the composer Giulio Bonnard, who frequently wrote film scores for Mario's productions.
Filmography
1961
- Rome, 1585 ... (Director)
1960
- Gastone ... (Director)
1959
- The Last Days of Pompeii ... (Director)
1958
- Aphrodite, Goddess of Love ... (Director)
1956
- Mi permette babbo! ... (Director)
1955
- La ladra ... (Director)
1954
- Night of Love ... (Director)
- They Stole a Tram ... (Screenplay)
1953
- Frine cortigiana d'Oriente ... (Director)
1952
- Tormento del passato ... (Story)
- I figli non si vendono ... (Director)
1951
- Stasera sciopero ... (Writer)
- The Last Sentence ... (Director)
1950
- The Promise ... (Screenplay)
- Margaret of Cortona ... (Director)
1949
- City of Pain ... (Screenplay)
1946
- Farewell, My Beautiful Naples ... (Director)
1945
- The Rape of the Sabine ... (Director)
- Che distinta famiglia! ... (Director)
1943
- The Peddler and the Lady ... (Director)
1942
- There's Room Up Ahead ... (Director)
- Rossini ... (Director)
1941
- The King's Jester ... (Director)
1940
- L'uomo del romanzo ... (Director)
- La gerla di papà Martin ... (Director)
- Il ponte dei sospiri ... (Director)
- La fanciulla di Portici ... (Screenplay)
1939
- Papà per una notte ... (Director)
- I, His Father ... (Director)
- Frenesia ... (Director)
1938
- Il conte di Bréchard ... (Director)
- Jeanne Doré ... (Director)
1937
- Il feroce saladino ... (Director)
1936
- Milizia territoriale ... (Director)
- 30 Seconds of Love ... (Screenplay)
- I Don't Know You Anymore ... (Director)
- L'albero di Adamo ... (Director)
1935
- La marche nuptiale ... (Director)
1934
- Le masque qui tombe ... (Director)
1933
- I Sing for You Alone ... (Director)
- Ève cherche un père ... (Director)
- Il trattato scomparso ... (Director)
1932
- No Women ... (Director)
- Cinque a zero ... (Director)
1931
- Fra Diavolo ... (Director)
- Fra Diavolo ... (Screenplay)
1930
- The Son of the White Mountain ... (Director)
- Die heiligen drei Brunnen ... (Director)
- The Knights of the Mountain ... (Writer)
1929
- Anschluß um Mitternacht ... (Director)
- Der Ruf des Nordens ... (Director)
1928
- The Last Performance ... (Director)
- The Fight for the Matterhorn ... (Director)
- Die Sünderin ... (Director)
1927
- The Golden Abyss ... (Director)
1926
- Die Flucht in den Zirkus ... (Director)
1924
- La gerla di Papà Martin ... (Director)
1922
- The Betrothed ... (Writer)
1920
- Papà Lebonnard ... (Director)
- The Marble Faun ... (Director)
- Il milione
1917
- The Other Me
- Treno di lusso as Ingegnere Walter
1914
- Nero and Agrippina as Petronio
1913
- La memoria dell'altro as Mario
- Love Everlasting as Prince Maximilien of Wallenstein
1912
- Le mannequin
- Parsifal as Amfortas
- Satan as Satana
- Nelly, the Tamer as Il Conte Vilhelm
- La nave dei leoni
- A Game of Chess as Internato