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
- The Last Sentence ... (Screenplay)
- Stasera sciopero ... (Writer)
1950
- The Promise ... (Screenplay)
- Margaret of Cortona ... (Director)
1949
- City of Pain ... (Screenplay)
1946
- Farewell, My Beautiful Naples ... (Director)
1945
- Che distinta famiglia! ... (Director)
- The Rape of the Sabine ... (Director)
1943
- The Peddler and the Lady ... (Director)
1942
- Rossini ... (Director)
- There's Room Up Ahead ... (Director)
1941
- The King's Jester ... (Director)
1940
- Il ponte dei sospiri ... (Director)
- La fanciulla di Portici ... (Screenplay)
- La gerla di papà Martin ... (Screenplay)
- L'uomo del romanzo ... (Director)
1939
- Frenesia ... (Director)
- I, His Father ... (Writer)
- Papà per una notte ... (Director)
1938
- Il conte di Bréchard ... (Director)
- Jeanne Doré ... (Director)
1937
- Il feroce saladino ... (Screenplay)
1936
- L'albero di Adamo ... (Director)
- Milizia territoriale ... (Director)
- 30 Seconds of Love ... (Screenplay)
- I Don't Know You Anymore ... (Director)
1935
- La marche nuptiale ... (Director)
1934
- Le masque qui tombe ... (Director)
1933
- Il trattato scomparso ... (Producer)
- I Sing for You Alone ... (Director)
- Ève cherche un père ... (Director)
1932
- Cinque a zero ... (Director)
- No Women ... (Director)
1931
- Fra Diavolo ... (Director)
- Fra Diavolo ... (Screenplay)
1930
- The Knights of the Mountain ... (Writer)
- The three holy fountains ... (Director)
- The Son of the White Mountain ... (Director)
1929
- Der Ruf des Nordens ... (Director)
- Anschluß um Mitternacht ... (Director)
1928
- The Fight for the Matterhorn ... (Director)
- Die Sünderin ... (Director)
- The Last Performance ... (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
- Il milione
- The Marble Faun ... (Director)
- Papà Lebonnard ... (Screenplay)
1917
- The Other Me
- Treno di lusso as Ingegnere Walter
1914
- Nero and Agrippina as Petronio
1913
- Love Everlasting as Prince Maximilien of Wallenstein
- La memoria dell'altro as Mario
1912
- Parsifal as Amfortas
- La nave dei leoni
- Satan as Satana
- Nelly, the Tamer as Il Conte Vilhelm
- A Game of Chess as Internato