Biography
Arturo Ambrosio (1870–1960) was an Italian film producer who was a pioneering and influential figure in the early years of Italian cinema. Ambrosio was a photographer who owned a shop in Turin. In 1904, after returning from a visit to Paris with a new film camera he began making short films of a documentary nature. In 1906 he founded Ambrosio Films and began making more ambitious fiction films.In 1908 Ambrosio produced and directed The Last Days of Pompeii, a major hit which helped trigger a fashion for Italian historical epics, generally set in the Classical era. Over the next decade Ambrosio oversaw a number of popular films and was able to export them to lucrative foreign markets such as Britain and America.
Like other Italian filmmakers, Ambrosio struggled during the crisis that hit Italian filmmaking following the First World War and his career appeared to have been ended by the commercial failure of his 1924 epic Quo Vadis. However, he returned from retirement to head production at Scalera Films between 1939 and 1943.
Filmography
all 119
Movies 119
Producer 109
Director 7
Writer 1
Carmen (1944)
Tosca (1941)
Quo Vadis? (1924)
Manolita (1922)
The Ship (1921)
Theodora (1921)
Champagne caprice (1919)
La Maschera del Barbaro (1918)
Attila (1918)
Ashes (1917)
The Faun (1917)
La meridiana del convento (1917)
Lucciola (1917)
Cab Number 13 (1917)
I raggi “Z” (1917)
Monna Vanna (1916)
Fricot Has a Distracted Wife (1915)
The Gorgona (1915)
Robinet Pescatore (1915)
Othello (1914)
Robinet chauffeur miope (1914)
Robinet è Geloso (1914)
La maschera pietosa (1914)
Pedestrian Love (1914)
The Destruction of Carthage (1914)
Figaro's Wedding (1913)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913)
The Bells of Death (1913)
Grandmother's Lamp (1913)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)
Tweedledum as a Cycling Policeman (1913)
Robinet Reporter (1913)
Madame Fricot è Gelosa (1913)
Robinet boxeur (1913)
A Diplomatic Success (1913)
Dante e Beatrice (1913)
Cinderella (1913)
L'oca alla Colbert (1913)
Amor di regina (1913)
Una Dichiarazione Impossibile di Robinet (1912)
Tweedledum a Rich Man for Ten Minutes (1912)
Satan (1912)
Miss Tweedledum (1912)
La nuova cameriera è troppo bella (1912)
Parsifal (1912)
A Sicilian Heroine (1912)
Robinet in vacanza (1912)
Sunbeam (1912)
The Pescara (1912)
Fricot in Love (1912)
Tripoli (1912)
Nelly, the Tamer (1912)
Butalin troppo onesto (1912)
Butalin spazzacamino per amore (1912)
La nave dei leoni (1912)
Friscot Does a Rest Cure (1912)
Robinet: Cyclist (1912)
Tweedledum's Sweet Wife (1912)
Mam'selle Nitouche (1912)
Una partita a scacchi (1912)
Robinet ricattatore (1912)
Robinet padre e figlio (1912)
La ribalta (1912)
La mala pianta (1912)
A Friendly Vengeance (1911)
A Blind Retribution (1911)
Tweedledum in Love with a Singer (1911)
The Life of the Butterfly (1911)
The Golden Wedding (1911)
L'auto di Robinet (1911)
Tweedledum's Auto-Skates (1911)
The Damnation of Cain (1911)
L'ultimo dei Frontignac (1911)
Tweedledum's White Suit (1911)
Le furberie di Robinet (1911)
The Beauties of Italy, Triptych of Picturesque Views (1911)
Soap Bubbles (1911)
Grenadier Roland (1911)
Tweedledum as Aviator (1911)
The Hornet (1911)
Alice's Awful Dream (1911)
If One Could See Into the Future (1911)
Tweedledum on His First Bicycle (1910)
The Slave of Carthage (1910)
Tweedledum Wants to Be a Jockey (1910)
L'ave Maria di Gounod (1910)
I funerali di Don Rua a Torino (1910)
Il duello di Robinet (1910)
The Virgin of Babylon (1910)
Santa Lucia (1910)
Tweedledum's Itching Powder (1910)
Fricot Drinks a Bottle of Horse Embrocation (1910)
The Romance of a Jockey (1910)
The Emperor's Messenger (1910)
The Eruption of Mount Etna (1910)
The Devil on Two Sticks (1910)
Fricot impara un mestiere (1910)
Didone abbandonata (1910)
La ballata della strega (1910)
Hero and Leander (1910)
Happy New Year! (1909)
Torquato Tasso (1909)
Nero, or The Fall of Rome (1909)
The False Oath (1909)
Il polentone a Pont Canavese (1909)
The Hostage (1909)
Mom's Heart (1909)
Galileo Galilei (1909)
Italian Naval Maneuvers (1908)
Neuropathology (1908)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1908)
The Grateful Mice (1908)
Sicilia illustrata (1908)
Un testamento originale (1907)
Good Evening, Flowers! (1907)
La scuola di cavalleria Tor di Quinto (1906)
La scuola di cavalleria in Pinerolo (1906)
Buona sera signorina Bonelli! (1906)
Escursioni Sulla Catena Del Monte Bianco
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GenderMale
Birthday1870-12-03
Deathday1960-03-25 (89 years old)
Birth PlaceTurin, Italy
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
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