Roberto Bracco (1861–1943) was an Italian

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

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and journalist. A number of his plays were turned into films, and he worked on the scripts of several of them including the 1914 silent '' Lost in the Dark''. He was nominated for the

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six times. Also among his works is ''Un Perfetto Amore'', a dramatic dialogue in three acts.Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea
Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1913), entry by E. D'Angelo, page 73.

Selected filmography

* '' Lost in the Dark'' (1914)

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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* * * 1861 births 1943 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Film people from Naples Italian dramatists and playwrights Italian male screenwriters Journalists from Naples Italian Aventinian secessionists 20th-century Italian male writers Italian emigrants to the United States {{Italy-writer-stub