Roberto Bianchi Montero


Roberto Bianchi Montero was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.

Life and career

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.

Selected filmography

Battles in the Shadow Then We'll Get a Divorce The Secret of Villa Paradiso After Casanova's Fashion Faddija – La legge della vendetta The Cliff of Sin A Mother Returns The Island Monster Goodbye Naples La sceriffa La Pica sul Pacifico Between Shanghai and St. Pauli Tharus Son of Attila Mondo Balordo documentary, released in U.S. 1966Oklahoma John Desperate Mission The Last Tomahawk Seven Pistols for a Gringo Blueprint for a Massacre The Battle of the Damned 36 Hours to Hell The Magnificent Robin Hood The Rangers Eye of the Spider So Sweet, So Dead La cameriera