Mario Guaita-Ausonia
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1881
- Died
- January 1, 1956
- Birthplace
- Modena, Italy
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.
Filmography
Mes P'tits 1924
Actor
Dans Les Mansardes De Paris 1924
Actor, Director
Il pescatore di perle 1923
Actor, Director
Gli Spettri Della Fattoria 1923
as Dr. Roberto Medolago, Director
Frisson 1922
Actor, Director
La nave dei miliardi 1922
Actor, Director
Sotto I Ponti Di Parigi 1921
Actor, Director
The Belt of the Amazons 1920
as Diomede, Director, Writer
The Phantom Athlete 1919
as Harry Audersen
Salambo 1914
Actor
On the Steps of the Throne 1912
Actor
Atlas. Episode 2: Accusation from beyond the grave 1920
Director
Credits from TMDB.