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Bartolomeo Pagano Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste
Bartolomeo Pagano (1878 - 1947) was an Italian motion picture actor. Before his cinema career, Pagano was a longshoreman 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 many more times in a series of sequels that continued until 1926. Pagano, Bartolomeo Pagano, Bartolomeo
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