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Bartolomeo Pagano
Actor
Born September 27, 1878Died June 24, 1947 (68 years)
Italian motion picture actor of the Silent Era. Before his cinema career, Pagano was a stevedore who worked at the port of Genoa. There, he was discovered and selected to play the role of Maciste, a muscular slave, in the silent movie classic Cabiria in 1914. As the originator of this role, he went on to play the character for the next 14 years in a series of sequels. Pagano became an international star. In the 1920s he was one of the most well paid actors in Italy, receiving up to 600.000 lire a year. The actor retired from films in 1929 to marry and raise a family in his home town of Genoa. He died there, aged 68, and is buried on the family estate in Italy.
Filmography
| 1953 | La valigia dei sogni · as Maciste |
| 1934 | Maniac · as Maciste |
| 1926 | The Hero of the Circus · as Maciste |
| 1925 | Maciste in Hell · as Maciste |
| 1924 | Maciste imperatore · as Maciste |
| 1923 | Maciste und der Sträfling Nr. 51 · as Maciste |
| 1916 | The Warrior · as Maciste |
| 1915 | Marvelous Maciste · as Maciste (as Ernest Pagano) |
| 1914 | Cabiria · as Maciste |