Gabriellino D'Annunzio

{{Short description|Italian actor (1886–1945)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Gabriele Maria D'Annunzio

| image = Gabriellino D'Annunzio.jpg

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| birth_name = Gabriele Maria D'Annunzio

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|4|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rome, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|12|8|1886|4|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

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| occupation = Actor, Writer, Director

| yearsactive = 1910 – 1925 (film)

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Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father.Brunetta p.60 In 1924 he co-directed the epic Quo Vadis with Georg Jacoby, but the project was a commercial failure and he retired from filmmaking. He died on 8 December 1945 at 59 years old, due to a disease that afflicted him.

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.