Giuseppe de Liguoro
Birthday: 1869-01-10 Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Synopsis
Giuseppe de Liguoro (1869–1944) was an Italian actor and film director of the silent era. He came from an aristocratic neapolitan family. De Liguoro was a pioneering figure of early Italian cinema, making a number of historical films in early 1910s such as L'Inferno (1911) and Mary Tudor (1911). Description above from the Wikipedia article Giuseppe de Liguoro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Dante's Inferno
The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.
