Tomaso Smith

Tomaso Smith (15 June 1886 – 27 May 1966) was an Italian screenwriter, politician, journalist, translator and newspaper editor active during the Fascist era. He started his career as a stringer for the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero but was forced to resign for his socialist stance. He then embarked on a career as a screenwriter and playwright until the outbreak of the War. Smith was imprisoned in a German detention camp in Italy in 1943 but was able to escape. At the end of the war Il Messaggero offered him the editor's post. In the 1950s he began a career in politics, first as an independent with the Italian Communist Party and then with Adriano Olivetti's Community Movement, where he was involved in attempts to start a newspaper, La Giustizia ("Justice").

Selected filmography

 * Figaro and His Great Day (1931)
 * The Blue Fleet (1932)
 * The Last Adventure (1932)
 * The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934)
 * Loyalty of Love (1934)
 * Port (1934)
 * Red Passport (1935)
 * To Live (1937)
 * The Fornaretto of Venice (1939)
 * The Widow (1939)
 * Father For a Night (1939)
 * Kean (1940)
 * Lucrezia Borgia (1940)
 * The King's Jester (1941)
 * Beatrice Cenci (1941)
 * The Gorgon (1942)
 * The Woman of Sin (1942)
 * Maria Malibran (1943)
 * The Champion (1943)
 * Resurrection (1944)