Gabriellino D'Annunzio

Gabriele Maria D'Annunzio
Born	Gabriele Maria D'Annunzio (1886-04-10)10 April 1886 Rome, Italy
Died	8 December 1945(1945-12-08) (aged 59) Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Actor, Writer, Director
Years active	1910 – 1925 (film)

Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father.^[1] In 1924 he co-directed the epic Quo Vadis with Georg Jacoby, but the project was a commercial failure and he retired from filmmaking. He died on 8 December 1945 at 59 years old, due to a disease that afflicted him.

Selected filmography

• The Ship (1921)
• Quo Vadis (1924)

References

Bibliography

• Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.

External links

• Gabriellino D'Annunzio at IMDb