Luigi Maggi Explained

Luigi Maggi
Birth Date:	1867 12, df=yes
Birth Place:	Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Death Place:	Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Occupation:	Actor, director
Yearsactive:	1906–1928

Luigi Maggi (21 December 1867 – 22 August 1946) was an Italian actor and film director who worked prolifically during the silent era. Working for Ambrosio Film he co-directed the 1908 hit film The Last Days of Pompeii, which launched the historical epic as a popular Italian genre.^[1]

Selected filmography

Director

• Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (The Last Days of Pompeii) (1908)
• Nerone (Nero) (1909)
• (1909)
• Il guanto (The Glove) (1910), a rediscovered lost film
• (After Fifty Years, The Golden Wedding) (1911)
• The Queen of Nineveh (1911)
• (1914), with Paola Pezzaglia
• (1924)

Sources

• Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
• Winkler, Martin M. Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Notes and References

1. Moliterno p.6