Bartolomeo Pagano
Italian motion picture actor of the Silent Era. 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. In the 1920s he was one of the most well paid actors in Italy, receiving up to 600.000 lire a year. The actor retired from films in 1929 to marry and raise a family in his home town of Genoa. He died there, aged 68, and is buried on the family estate in Italy.
Cabiria
as MacisteYoung Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be...
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The Warrior
as uncreditedA soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private...
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Maciste
as Maciste (as Ernest Pagano)A young girl, pursued by a band of conspirators, hides in a movie theatre where she watches the...
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Il gigante delle Dolomiti
as Maciste, la guida alpinaThe Giant of the Dolomites (Italian: Il gigante delle Dolomiti) is a 1927 Italian silent...
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Maciste in Hell
as MacisteThe devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
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Maciste contro lo sceicco
as MacisteA young girl is abducted by her tutor, and they set off in a ship which has a sheik on board,...
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Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni
as MacisteBartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.
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