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Camillo Pilotto

Italian actor (1888–1963)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ1169255 ↗
Source-derived summary

Camillo Pilotto (6 February 1888 – 27 May 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 101 films between 1916 and 1963. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Camillo Pilotto” as italian actor (1888–1963). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888, 1963, 1916—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1888-02-06, 1890-02-06—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Camillo, Pilotto and Italian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as italian actor (1888–1963). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1169255. VIAF identifies the subject as 44208499. The Library of Congress control number is nr97043399. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1888, 1963 and 1916.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Camillo Pilotto”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Camillo Pilotto primary sources, Camillo Pilotto archive and Camillo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Camillo Pilotto”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Camillo Pilotto” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.