Bartolomeo Pagano
1878-09-27 (145 years old) in Genova, italy
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.
Movies
Giuditta e Oloferne
0 %|Jan 1, 1929
Gli ultimi zar
0 %|Aug 1, 1928
Maciste medium
0 %|Apr 1, 1918
Maciste the Sleepwalker
0 %|Jan 1, 1918
Maciste the Ranger
0 %|Jan 1, 1916
