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, Italy.

Career

Bomba worked in various capacities from 1949 onward. In 1952, he directed his first film, ''Prigionieri delle tenebre'' (''Prisoners of Darkness''); and in the following year he commenced a film called ''Jezebel'', although it was never completed. In the 1960s/1970s, he worked steadily as a director and screenwriter, directing two films featuring Agent 777 (under the name Henry Bay) and two ''decamerotici'' (films inspired by ''The Decameron''). In 1975, he dedicated himself to dubbing foreign language films, working as director and dialogist. Among the voiceovers that he edited the Japanese anime TV series, ''

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'' and two works taken from the French novel '' Sans Famille'': the anime TV series '' Nobody's Boy: Remi'', and the French television miniseries '' Sans Famille.'' During the late 1970s, he made three more films for Cinestampa Internazionale which involved the work of anime artist

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. He retired in the early 1990s.

Personal life and death

Enrico Bomba married Giannina Gianni in 1946. Together they had two children, Ernesto born in 1948 and Maria Elisabetta “Camilla” born in 1951. At this time he was the brother in law of Tito Marconi, the president of Luce Fattorosi in Cinecittà. Bomba then had an affair with

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in Italy in 1962, while she was married to

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Subsequently he married voice actress

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. Enrico Bomba predeceased Dominici.

Filmography

As director

* ''Prigionieri delle tenebre'' (''Prisoners of Darkness'') (1952) * '' Love and Faith/Oh Islam'' (1961, also producer) * ''

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'' (1965, as Henry Bay) * ''Agente segreto 777 - Invito ad uccidere'' (1966, as Henry Bay) * ''Aretino's Blue Stories'' (1972, ''decamerotici'') * ''Le mille e una notte... e un'altra ancora!'' (''A thousand and one nights ... and yet another!'') (1973, ''decamerotici'')

As producer

* ''Love and Poison'' (1952) * ''Sul ponte dei sospiri'' (1953) * '' Oh Islam/Love and Faith'' (1961, also director) * ''

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'' (''Romulus and the Sabines'', 1961) * ''No Man's Land''(1962, starred

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) * ''Scarlet Eye''/''The Dead Eye of Ceylon'' (1963, starred

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) * '' Last Plane to Baalbek'' (1964, starred

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References

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