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Mario Bava

Born July 31, 1914
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Died April 25, 1980 (aged 65)
Rome, Italy

Mario Bava (July 31, 1914 – April 25, 1980) was an Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the golden age of Italian horror films. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Sanremo is a city with about 57000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made The term Golden age is best known from Greek mythology and legend but can also be found in other ancient cultures (see below Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers

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Biography

Mario Bava was born in Sanremo, Liguria. Sanremo is a city with about 57000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions The son of Eugenio Bava, a sculptor who became a pioneer of special effects photography and subsequently one of the great cameramen of Italian silent pictures, Mario's first ambition was to become a painter. Unable to turn out paintings at a profitable rate, he went indirectly into his father's business, working as an assistant to other Italian cinematographers like Massimo Terzano, while also offering assistance to his father, who headed the special effects department at Mussolini's film factory, the Instituto LUCE.

Bava became a cinematographer in his own right in 1939, filming two shorts for Roberto Rossellini. Roberto Rossellini ( May 8 1906 – June 3 1977) was an Italian Film director. He made his feature debut in the early 1940s, just as the second World War broke out, stopping Italian film production in its tracks. The Italian cinema only began to recover its former health after the war, when America began to produce films such as Quo Vadis (1951 film) there. Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a Screenplay by Bava's colorful camerawork was an instrumental factor in developing the screen personas of such stars of the period as Gina Lollobrigida, Steve Reeves and Aldo Fabrizi. Gina Lollobrigida (born July 4, 1927 in Subiaco Italy) is a Golden Globe Award -winning Italian Actress and Photojournalist Stephen L Reeves ( January 21, 1926 &ndash May 1, 2000) was an American bodybuilder, Actor, and author Aldo Fabrizi ( Rome, November 1, 1905 - Rome, April 2, 1990) was a famous Italian comic Actor and

Bava directed his first film in 1958: Le morte viene dallo spazio (The Day the Sky Exploded), the first Italian science fiction film. Because he had no earlier credited experience as a director, it was formally credited to Paolo Heusch. In 1960 he directed one of the first Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s: Black Sunday which made a star out of Barbara Steele. Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Black Sunday ( Italian title La maschera del demonio) is a 1960 Italian Horror film directed by Mario Bava Barbara Steele (born December 19, 1937 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK) is an English film actress. His use of light and dark in black and white films is widely acclaimed along with his use of colors in films like I tre volti della paura (Black Sabbath) (1963) and La Frusta e il corpo (The Whip and the Body) (1963). Black Sabbath ( Italian title I Tre volti della paura) is a 1963 Italian Horror film directed by Mario Bava The Whip and The Body ( Italian title La Frusta e il Corpo) is a 1963 Italian Gothic horror Film directed

His work has proved very influential: Bava directed what is called the first Italian giallo film, La ragazza che sapeva troppo (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (1963), and his 1965 sci-fi horror Terrore nello spazio (Planet of the Vampires) was a possible influence on Alien (1979). The Girl Who Knew Too Much ( La Ragazza che sapeva troppo) is a 1963 Italian Giallo film. Planet of the Vampires ( Italian title Terrore nello spazio) is a 1965 Italian science fiction / Horror film Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. Although comic books had served as the basis for countless serials and children's films in Hollywood, Bava's Diabolik (1968) brought an adult perspective to the genre. Danger Diabolik (also known simply as Diabolik) is a 1968 feature film from Italian Filmmaker Mario Bava based on 1971's Reazione a catena (also known as Twitch of the Death Nerve & Bay of Blood) is considered to be one of the earliest slasher films. Twitch of the Death Nerve ( Italian title Ecologia del delitto) is a 1971 Italian horror thriller film The slasher film (sometimes referred to as bodycount films and dead teenager movies) is a Sub-genre Many traits of his 1966 film Operazione paura (Kill, Baby. . . Kill!), regarded by many (including Martin Scorsese) as his masterpiece, also appear in the Asian strain of terror film known as J-Horror. J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to Horror fiction in popular culture

Mario Bava has a son, Lamberto Bava, who worked for years as Bava's assistant director and later went on to a a movie-directing career of his own ("Demons," "Demons 2"). Lamberto Bava (born April 3 1944) is an Italian film director specializing in horror and Fantasy films Bava was born in

On several of his movies, Bava was credited as John M. Old. Mario Bava ( July 31 1914 – April 25 1980) was an Italian director, Screenwriter, and Cinematographer [1] Later, Lamberto Bava was sometimes credited as John M. Old, Jr. [2]

Several books have been published about Mario Bava: Mario Bava by Pascal Martinet (Edilig, 1984) and Mario Bava edited by Jean-Louis Leutrat (Éditions du Céfal, 1994) in French; Mario Bava by Alberto Pezzotta (Il Castoro Cinema, 1995) in Italian; The Haunted Worlds of Mario Bava by Troy Howarth (Fab Press, 2002), and most recently, the massive critical biography Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark[3] by Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog, 2007; ISBN 0-9633756-1-X). Tim Lucas (b May 30, 1956 in Cincinnati Ohio) is a Film critic, Biographer, Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter

Filmography as director

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Sources

References

  1. ^ Images - Italian Horror
  2. ^ BFI | Film & TV Database | BAVA, Lamberto
  3. ^ Mario Bava - All the Colors of the Dark by Tim Lucas, Published by Video Watchdog
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NAME Bava, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
DATE OF DEATH 1980-04-25
PLACE OF DEATH Rome, Italy
Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Sanremo is a city with about 57000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2
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