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
(Maciste)
Gli ultimi zar
Maciste in Hell
(Maciste)
Maciste
(Maciste (as Ernest Pagano))
Giuditta e Oloferne
(Holofernes)
The Warrior
Maciste contro lo sceicco
(Maciste)
Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni
(Maciste)
Maciste the Ranger
(Maciste)
Maciste the Sleepwalker
(Maciste)
Man soll es nicht für möglich halten ...
(Maciste)
Maciste in Love
(Maciste)
Maciste atleta
(Maciste)
Maciste salvato dalle acque
(Maciste)
Maciste medium
(Maciste)
Maciste poliziotto
(Maciste)
Maciste on His Vacation
(Maciste)
La trilogia di Maciste
(Maciste)
Maciste und der Sträfling Nr. 51
(Maciste)
Maciste e la figlia del re dell'argento
(Maciste)
Maciste Emperor
(Maciste)
La rivincita di Maciste
(Maciste)
Maciste und die chinesische Truhe
(Maciste)
Maciste e il nipote d'America
(Maciste)
Il gigante delle Dolomiti
(Maciste, la guida alpina)
Maciste's Testament
(Maciste)
Maciste's Journey
(Maciste)
Maciste Against Death
(Maciste)