Giovanni Pastrone

Known for

Directing

Life

1883 – 1959 (aged 75)

Born in

Montechiaro d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy

Credits

1 acting credits

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 - 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician.

Pastrone was born in Montechiaro d'Asti. He worked during the era of the silent film, but he influenced many important directors in the international cinema, such as David Wark Griffith, in his Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).

He died in Turin on 27 June 1959.

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