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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 and 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 ''

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'': the anime TV series '' Nobody's Boy: Remi'', and the French television miniseries ''

.'' 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 was born in

on 2 August 1922. He married Giannina Gianni in 1946. Together they had two children, Ernesto (born 1948) and Maria Elisabetta "Camilla" (born 1951). At this time he was the brother-in-law of Tito Marconi, the president of Luce Fattorosi in Cinecittà. Bomba 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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. They had a daughter, Federica Bomba.IL MONDO DEI DOPPIATORI
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. Enrico Bomba died on 1 November 1995, at the age of 73. Dominici died on 3 January 2024, at the age of 77.

Filmography

As director

* ''

Prisoners of Darkness ''Prisoners of Darkness'' () is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Enrico Bomba and starring Milly Vitale, Folco Lulli and Eduardo Ciannelli. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. It is based on the ...

'' (1952) * '' Love and Faith/Oh Islam'' (1961, also producer) * '' Secret Agent 777'' (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) * '' Il ratto delle sabine'' (''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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