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 & Full Filmography6 Titles
Movie - 1924, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A poor girl dream of a king, who defends the oppressed. One of the many french films directed by famous italian actor Mario Guaita, screenwritten by his french wife Renée Deliot, who is considered the first women to have a long career in screenwriting.
Movie - 1924, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ausonia is a poor circus performer, widowed and unemployed, with two young daughters. He succeeds to get hired in the theater of a fair run by Madame Mons and her daughter Paulete. Soon fired for having refused the owner's amorous proposals, he gets into trouble.
Movie - 1920, 2h 15m • as Diomede
La cintura delle Amazzoni (presumed a lost film but actually in perfect health, preserved by the Narodní filmový archív), promises fun, elegance and erotic innuendos. The story concerns a circus of attractions that comes to town. The owner of the local country club is keen on aquiring the circus owner's fine white mares - however to make that happen he must court Cleopatra, his daughter - when he is actually in love with the beautiful niece instead. All the while, a group of no-nonsense/no-men Amazons arrive in town promissing to beat the local athletes to a sports' match on the arena.
Movie - 1921, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Free adaptation from Ferragus by Balzac, first story of the Histoire des Treize trilogy in Scènes de al vei parisienne of La Comédie humaine. Balzac's text has as its backdrop the events of a secret community made up of men of Parisian high society and is endowed with all the typical adventurous and bourgeois elements of the Guaita/Deliot production. Lost film.
Movie - 1912, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In fictional Silistria, a plot is hatched to send the heir to the throne to Paris for a year.
Movie - 1919, 2h 15m • as Harry Audersen
In a plot similar to, but predating, the later Superman stories, a young girl, Jenny, is involved in several dangerous adventures as a result of her possession of a valuable jewel. Each time she is saved by her normally shy, unassuming boyfriend, Audreses, who comes to her rescue disguised as a bare-chested wrestler wearing a mask.