Bartolomeo Pagano

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Occupation Actor Name Bartolomeo Pagano Ex-spouse Camilla Balduzzi		Years active 1914-1929 (film) Role Actor

Born 27 September 1878 Genoa, Liguria, Italy Died June 24, 1947, Genoa, Italy Movies Cabiria, The Warrior, The Last Days of Pompeii, Maciste against the Sheik, Maciste in the Lion's Cage Similar People Giovanni Pastrone, Guido Brignone, Luigi Maggi, Mark Forest, Kirk Morris

1925 B 095 Maciste In Hell {Bartolomeo Pagano} SciFi

Bartolomeo Pagano (27 September 1878 - 24 June 1947) was an Italian motion picture actor.

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, and legally changed his name to Maciste. The actor retired from films in 1926 to marry and raise a family in his home town of Genoa. Maciste died, aged 68, there and is buried on the family estate in Italy.