Roberto Bianchi Montero

{{Short description|Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (1907–1986)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Roberto Bianchi Montero | image = | birth_date = 7 December 1907 | birth_place = [[Rome]], [[Italy]] | other_names = | death_date = {{death date and age|1986|12|7|1907|12|7|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Valmontone]], Italy | occupation = [[Screenwriter]], [[film director]], [[actor]] | yearsactive = }}

'''Roberto Bianchi Montero''' (7 December 1907 – 7 December 1986) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.

== Life and career == Born in [[Rome]], Bianchi Montero started acting as a teenager on stage and he was a member of an amateur theater group with whom he performed in several festivals.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> In 1930 he entered the stage company of [[Ettore Petrolini]], and in 1934 he founded his own company.<ref name="bio"/><ref name=spaghetti>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}}</ref> In 1936 he got his first film role, and in the late 1930s he also was assistant director for a number of films.<ref name="bio"/>

After the Second World War, Bianchi Montero directed numerous genre films, usually low-budget productions, in which he often also collaborated to the screenplays.<ref name="bio"/><ref name=spaghetti/> He particularly specialized in [[melodrama]]s, [[Spaghetti Western]]s and [[Commedia sexy all'italiana]] films. He was the father of the director [[Mario Bianchi]].<ref name=spaghetti/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Louis Paul|title=Italian Horror Film Directors|date=8 June 2015|publisher=McFarland, 2004|isbn=978-0786487493}}</ref>

== Selected filmography == * ''[[Battles in the Shadow]]'' (1938) * ''[[Then We'll Get a Divorce]]'' (1940) * ''[[The Secret of Villa Paradiso]]'' (1940) * ''[[After Casanova's Fashion]]'' (1942) * ''[[Faddija – La legge della vendetta]]'' (1949) * ''[[The Cliff of Sin]]'' (1950) * ''[[A Mother Returns]]'' (1952) * ''[[The Island Monster]]'' (1954) * ''[[Goodbye Naples]]'' (1955) * ''[[La sceriffa]]'' (1959) * ''[[La Pica sul Pacifico]]'' (1959) * ''[[Between Shanghai and St. Pauli]]'' (1962) * ''[[Tharus Son of Attila]]'' (1962) * ''Mondo Balordo'' (1964) documentary, released in U.S. 1966 * ''[[Oklahoma John]]'' (1965) * ''[[Desperate Mission (1965 film)|Desperate Mission]]'' (1965) * ''[[The Last Tomahawk]]'' (1965) * ''[[Seven Pistols for a Gringo]]'' (1966) * ''[[Blueprint for a Massacre]]'' (1967) * ''The Battle of the Damned'' ({{langx|it|Quella dannata pattuglia}}) (1969) * ''[[36 Hours to Hell]]'' (1969) * ''[[:it:Il magnifico Robin Hood|The Magnificent Robin Hood]]'' ({{langx|it|Il magnifico Robin Hood}}) (1970) * ''[[:it:Rangers attacco ora X|The Rangers]]'' ({{langx|it|Rangers attacco ora X}}) (1970) * ''[[Eye of the Spider]]'' (1971) * ''[[So Sweet, So Dead]]'' (1972) * ''[[La cameriera]]'' (1974) * ''[[The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia]]'' (1982)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb name|id =0080576}}

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