Roberto Bianchi Montero

Born in Rome, Bianchi Montero started acting as a teenager on stage and he was a member of an amateur theater group with whom he performed in several festivals.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} In 1930 he entered the stage company of Ettore Petrolini, and in 1934 he founded his own company.{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}} In 1936 he got his first film role, and in the late 1930s he also was assistant director for a number of films.

After the Second World War, Bianchi Montero directed numerous genre films, usually low-budget productions, in which he often also collaborated to the screenplays. He particularly specialized in melodramas, Spaghetti Westerns and Commedia sexy all'italiana films. He was the father of the director Mario Bianchi.{{cite book|last1=Louis Paul|title=Italian Horror Film Directors|date=8 June 2015|publisher=McFarland, 2004|isbn=978-0786487493}}

• Battles in the Shadow (1938)
• Then We'll Get a Divorce (1940)
• The Secret of Villa Paradiso (1940)
• After Casanova's Fashion (1942)
• Faddija – La legge della vendetta (1949)
• The Cliff of Sin (1950)
• A Mother Returns (1952)
• The Island Monster (1954)
• Goodbye Naples (1955)
• La sceriffa (1959)
• La Pica sul Pacifico (1959)
• Between Shanghai and St. Pauli (1962)
• Tharus Son of Attila (1962)
• Mondo Balordo (1964) documentary, released in U.S. 1966
• Oklahoma John (1965)
• Desperate Mission (1965)
• The Last Tomahawk (1965)
• Seven Pistols for a Gringo (1966)
• Blueprint for a Massacre (1967)
• The Battle of the Damned ({{langx|it|Quella dannata pattuglia}}) (1969)
• 36 Hours to Hell (1969)
• The Magnificent Robin Hood ({{langx|it|Il magnifico Robin Hood}}) (1970)
• The Rangers ({{langx|it|Rangers attacco ora X}}) (1970)
• Eye of the Spider (1971)
• So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
• The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia (1982)

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