Mario Guaita-Ausonia

Born: 1881-01-01

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.


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On the Steps of the Throne

as uncredited
Released: 1912-01-01

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Mes P'tits

as uncredited
Released: 1924-02-15

Ausonia is a poor circus performer, widowed and unemployed, with two young daughters. He...

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Dans Les Mansardes De Paris

as uncredited
Released: 1924-01-01

A poor girl dream of a king, who defends the oppressed. One of the many french films directed...

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The Phantom Athlete

as Harry Audersen
Released: 1919-06-23

In a plot similar to, but predating, the later Superman stories, a young girl, Jenny, is...

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The Belt of the Amazons

as Diomede
Released: 1920-06-06

La cintura delle Amazzoni (presumed a lost film but actually in perfect health, preserved by the...

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Sotto I Ponti Di Parigi

as uncredited
Released: 1921-07-06

Free adaptation from Ferragus by Balzac, first story of the Histoire des Treize trilogy in...

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