Roberto Bianchi Montero

Biography

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.

Directed

1. So Sweet, So Dead (1972) — Director
2. The Island Monster (1954) — Director
3. Hell in the Jungle (1979) — Director
4. A Fool's World (1964) — Director
5. Heat in the Suburbs (1975) — Director
6. Eye of the Spider (1971) — Director
7. Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die (1971) — Director
8. The Battle of the Damned (1969) — Director
9. Caligula's Hot Nights (1977) — Director
10. Two Faces of the Dollar (1967) — Director
11. The Sewer Rats (1974) — Director
12. 36 Hours of Hell (1969) — Director
13. The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia (1982) — Director
14. La cameriera (1974) — Director
15. The Kisser (1976) — Director
16. Rangers Attack at Hour X (1970) — Director
17. The stunt (1977) — Director
18. The Perverse World of Beatrice (1985) — Director
19. Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia (1973) — Director
20. La Pica sul Pacifico (1959) — Director
21. Il magnifico Robin Hood (1970) — Director
22. La sorprendente eredità del tontodimammà (1977) — Director
23. Hotel by the Hour (1981) — Director
24. Erotic Flash (1981) — Director
25. Sentence of God (1972) — Director
26. Marina Hard Core (1985) — Director
27. The Sheriff (1959) — Director
28. The Man from Oklahoma (1965) — Director
29. Colussus and the Huns (1962) — Director
30. Gli assi della risata (1943) — Director
31. La zia d'America va a sciare (1958) — Director
32. Desperate Mission (1965) — Director
33. Universo proibito (1965) — Director
34. Voyage to Danger (1962) — Director
35. Blueprint for a Massacre (1967) — Director
36. Sing with us (1955) — Director
37. Goodbye, Naples! (1955) — Director
38. Notti calde d'Oriente (1962) — Director
39. La legge della vendetta (1950) — Director
40. Nobody Has Betrayed (1952) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Dopo divorzieremo (1940) — Fred
2. Battles in the Shadow (1939)
3. Casanova farebbe così! (1942) — Un giocatore di biliardo (as Roberto Bianchi)
4. Traversata nera (1939) — Peter, sailor
5. La capanna dell'amore (1935)