Background
Pastrone was born in Montechiaro d"Asti.
Actor director film editor screenwriter
Pastrone was born in Montechiaro d"Asti.
He worked during the era of the silent film and influenced many important directors in the international cinema, such as David Wark Griffith, in his Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). He died in Turin on 27 June 1959.