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Vitale De Stefano

Italian actor and film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ74956294 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vitale De Stefano (1889–1959) was an Italian actor and film director of the silent era. He played the role of Masinissa in Giovanni Pastrone's epic Cabiria in 1914.

Selected filmography

The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)

Cabiria (1914)

Paolina (1915)

The Son of the Red Corsair (1921)

The Black Panther (1942)

References

Bibliography

Jacqueline Reich. The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2015.

Editorial summary

“Vitale De Stefano” enters the record as italian actor and film director. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vitale, Stefano and Italian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889, 1959, 1914, 1913—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1889-05-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vitale, Stefano and Italian.
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Why this record matters

“Vitale De Stefano” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vitale, Stefano and Italian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q74956294. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1889, 1959, 1914 and 1913.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vitale De Stefano” 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.