Roberto Bianchi Montero

Director, Writer, Actor

December 7, 1907 — January 1, 1986 (78 years)
Roberto Bianchi Montero (7 December 1907 – 7 December 1986) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.

Born in Rome, Bianchi Montero started acting as a teenager on stage and he was a member of an amateur theater group with whom he performed in several festivals. In 1930 he entered the stage company of Ettore Petrolini, and in 1934 he founded his own company. In 1936 he got his first film role, and in the late 1930s he also was assistant director for a number of films.

After the Second World War, Bianchi Montero directed numerous genre films, usually low-budget productions, in which he often also collaborated to the screenplays. He particularly specialized in melodramas, Spaghetti Westerns and Commedia sexy all'italiana films. He was the father of the director Mario Bianchi.

Known For

  • The Island Monster
    The Island Monster1954
  • A Fool's World
    A Fool's World1964
  • The Battle of the Damned
    The Battle of the Damned1969
  • 36 Hours of Hell
    36 Hours of Hell1969
  • Eye of the Spider
    Eye of the Spider1971
  • Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die
    Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die1971
  • Those Two in the Legion
    Those Two in the Legion1962
  • Two Faces of the Dollar
    Two Faces of the Dollar1967
  • Rangers Attack at Hour X
    Rangers Attack at Hour X1970
  • Sentence of God
    Sentence of God1972
  • The Sewer Rats
    The Sewer Rats1974
  • The Last Tomahawk
    The Last Tomahawk1965
  • The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia
    The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia1982
  • Hell in the Jungle
    Hell in the Jungle1979
  • Colussus and the Huns
    Colussus and the Huns1962
  • Desperate Mission
    Desperate Mission1965
  • Death Is Sweet From the Soldier Of God
    Death Is Sweet From the Soldier Of God1972
  • The Black Panther of Ratana
    The Black Panther of Ratana1963
  • The Magnificent Robin Hood
    The Magnificent Robin Hood1970
  • The Man from Oklahoma
    The Man from Oklahoma1965

Filmography

1942
Casanova farebbe così! · as Un Giocatore Di Biliardo (as Roberto Bianchi)
1942
Giarabub · as Il Capitano Medico
1940
1940
La danza dei milioni · as Il Garzone Del Fornario
1940

1979
1974
La cameriera · as Story
1972
1971
L'occhio del ragno · as Story
1969
36 ore all'inferno · as Story
1965
Desperate Mission · as Story
1965
The Last Tomahawk · as Screenplay: Italian Version
1963
Mondo Infame · as Story
1962