Giacomo Gentilomo

Giacomo Gentilomo (5 April 1909 – 16 April 2001) was an Italian film director and painter.

Early life
He was born in Trieste. Gentilomo moved to Rome at a young age.

Career
At 21 years old he entered the cinema industry, working as a script surveyor and an assistant director. Active between 1933 and 1937 as a film editor, in 1939 he debuted as a director with Il Carnevale di Venezia. His 1945 film O sole mio got critical acclaim. His later career was mainly devoted to genre films, and failed to achieve significant critical interest. Dissatisfied with cinema, in the mid-1960s Gentilomo decided to abandon films and to instead fulfill his passion for painting.

Filmography
• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (directed by Nunzio Malasomma, 1934)

• I Love You Only (directed by Mario Mattoli, 1935)

• Music in the Square (1936)

• White Amazons (1936)

• Sinfonia di Roma (1937, short)

• Condottieri (directed by Luis Trenker, 1937)

• The Carnival of Venice (1939)

• Ecco la radio! (1940)

• La Granduchessa si diverte (1940)

• Thrill (1941)

• Honeymoon (1941)

• Finalmente soli (1942)

• Pazzo d'amore (1942)

• Mater dolorosa (1943)

• Short Circuit (1943)

• In cerca di felicità (1944)

• Tempesta d'anime (1946)

• O sole mio (1946)

• The Lovers (1946)

• Tehran (1946)

• The Brothers Karamazov (1947)

• Snow White and the Seven Thieves (1949)

• Hawk of the Nile (1950)

• Ti ritroverò (1949)

• El Sakr (1950)

• The Accusation (1950)

• The Young Caruso (1951)

• Immortal Melodies (1952)

• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953)

• The Two Orphans (1954)

• Appassionatamente (1954)

• Una voce una chitarra e un pò di luna (1956)

• La trovatella di Pompei (1957)

• The Dragon's Blood (1957)

• Knight Without a Country (1959)

• Maciste contro il vampiro (1961)

• The Last of the Vikings (1961)

• Charge of the Black Lancers (1962)

• Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963)

• Slave Girls of Sheba (1963)

• Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)