Mario Guaita-Ausonia
Also Known As: Mario Guaita, Mario Ausonia
Biography: Mario Guaita, also known by the pseudonym Mario Ausonia (1881 – 1956), was an Italian actor and director. Guaita studied medicine and stopped his studies due to his hobby of powerlifting. He began performing in the theater with circus and vaudeville shows in Europe and America. In cinema he played strongman and acrobat roles for Pasquali Film and later for Gloria Film. His greatest successes in action and adventure films are The Phantom Athlete (1919), Battle of the Giants (1919), Atlas (1920), The Amazon Belt (1920), The Billion Ship (1922) and The Pearl Fisherman (1923), of which he was also partly director. He made fifteen films with his screenwriter wife Renée Deliot in Italy and France, where they moved during the depression years of the Italian film industry in the early 1920s. Guaita's last film was in 1926 with Executioner in the Land of Gold. Subsequently he ran a cinema in Marseille.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Modena, Italy
Birthday: January 01, 1881
Deathday: January 01, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Salambo
Overview: One of the most famous of the early Italian epics which brought about the change from short subjects to feature films in America. Massive crowd scenes, spectacular sets that rival the sets from Intolerance and an interesting story all add up to fine entertainment from the cinema's early beginnings.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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On the Steps of the Throne
Overview: In fictional Silistria, a plot is hatched to send the heir to the throne to Paris for a year.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Dans Les Mansardes De Paris
Overview: A poor girl dream of a king, who defends the oppressed. One of the many french films directed by famous italian actor Mario Guaita, screenwritten by his french wife Renée Deliot, who is considered the first women to have a long career in screenwriting.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Sotto I Ponti Di Parigi
Overview: Free adaptation from Ferragus by Balzac, first story of the Histoire des Treize trilogy in Scènes de al vei parisienne of La Comédie humaine. Balzac's text has as its backdrop the events of a secret community made up of men of Parisian high society and is endowed with all the typical adventurous and bourgeois elements of the Guaita/Deliot production. Lost film.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1921-07-06
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Frisson
Overview: Lost film.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1922-11-15
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Gli Spettri Della Fattoria
Overview: "Gli spettri della fattoria" reproduces the cliché of a criminal gang working in a secret lair (an abandoned mansion that locals believe to be haunted), in this case led by an evil woman who uses dual identities for criminal purposes. The mystery unfolds around a legacy. As always, Guaita plays the righteous and strong hero, able to defeat the bandits thanks to his physical strength and ingenuity.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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The Phantom Athlete
Overview: In a plot similar to, but predating, the later Superman stories, a young girl, Jenny, is involved in several dangerous adventures as a result of her possession of a valuable jewel. Each time she is saved by her normally shy, unassuming boyfriend, Audreses, who comes to her rescue disguised as a bare-chested wrestler wearing a mask.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1919-06-23
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La nave dei miliardi
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1922-06-01
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Il pescatore di perle
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1923-02-01
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Mes P'tits
Overview: Ausonia is a poor circus performer, widowed and unemployed, with two young daughters. He succeeds to get hired in the theater of a fair run by Madame Mons and her daughter Paulete. Soon fired for having refused the owner's amorous proposals, he gets into trouble.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-02-15
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The Belt of the Amazons
Overview: La cintura delle Amazzoni (presumed a lost film but actually in perfect health, preserved by the Narodní filmový archív), promises fun, elegance and erotic innuendos. The story concerns a circus of attractions that comes to town. The owner of the local country club is keen on aquiring the circus owner's fine white mares - however to make that happen he must court Cleopatra, his daughter - when he is actually in love with the beautiful niece instead. All the while, a group of no-nonsense/no-men Amazons arrive in town promissing to beat the local athletes to a sports' match on the arena.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-06-06
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