Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1881
Died
Jan 01, 1956
Place of Birth
Modena, Italy
Credits
12 titles
Mario Guaita-Ausonia
Biography
Mario Guaita, also known by the pseudonym Mario Ausonia (1881 – 1956), was an Italian actor and director. Guaita studied medicine and stopped his studies due to his hobby of powerlifting. He began performing in the theater with circus and vaudeville shows in Europe and America. In cinema he played strongman and acrobat roles for Pasquali Film and later for Gloria Film. His greatest successes in action and adventure films are The Phantom Athlete (1919), Battle of the Giants (1919), Atlas (1920), The Amazon Belt (1920), The Billion Ship (1922) and The Pearl Fisherman (1923), of which he was also partly director. He made fifteen films with his screenwriter wife Renée Deliot in Italy and France, where they moved during the depression years of the Italian film industry in the early 1920s. Guaita's last film was in 1926 with Executioner in the Land of Gold. Subsequently he ran a cinema in Marseille.
Known For
Filmography
Mes P'tits
Dans Les Mansardes De Paris
Il pescatore di perle
Gli Spettri Della Fattoria
Dr. Roberto Medolago
Frisson
La nave dei miliardi
Sotto I Ponti Di Parigi
The Belt of the Amazons
Diomede
Atlas. Episode 2: Accusation from beyond the grave
Director
The Phantom Athlete
Harry Audersen
Salambo
On the Steps of the Throne