Career
Born in Trieste, at very young age Gentilomo moved to Rome, where at 21 years old he entered the cinema industry, working as a script survivor and an assistant director Active between 1933 and 1937 as a film editor, in 1939 he debuted as a director with Il Carnevale di Venezia. Dissatisfied with cinema, in the mid-1960s Gentilomo decided to abandon films and to fulfill his passion for painting.