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Dario Simoni is a Set Dresser American born on 1901

Dario Simoni

Dario Simoni
Dario Simoni participated to 18 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 4 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Art

Doctor Zhivago, 3h17
Directed by David Lean
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay
Roles Set Decoration
Rating78% 3.9471153.9471153.9471153.9471153.947115
The film takes place mostly against a backdrop of the pre-World War I years, World War I itself, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War. A narrative framing device, set in the late 1940s to early 1950s, involves KGB Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago (Alec Guinness) searching for the daughter of his half brother, Doctor Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago (Omar Sharif), and Larissa ("Lara") Antipova (Julie Christie). Yevgraf believes a young woman, Tanya Komarova (Rita Tushingham), may be his niece and tells her the story of her father's life.
Lawrence of Arabia, 3h38
Directed by David Lean, Noël Howard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Le désert
Actors Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer
Roles Set Decoration
Rating82% 4.1485454.1485454.1485454.1485454.148545
Part I In 1935, Lawrence is killed in a motorcycle accident. At his memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral, a reporter tries to gain insights into this remarkable, enigmatic man from those who knew him, with little success.
Solomon and Sheba, 2h21
Directed by King Vidor, Bernard Vorhaus, Noël Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, David Farrar, Marisa Pavan, Finlay Currie
Roles Set Decoration
Rating61% 3.052023.052023.052023.052023.05202
The film's theme differs substantially from Biblical sources and is highly fictionalized, most notably in representing the Queen of Sheba as an ally of ancient Egypt in opposition to King Solomon of Israel, and in her having a love affair with Solomon.
Travels with My Aunt, 1h49
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Stephens, Raymond Gérôme, Cindy Williams
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.1468653.1468653.1468653.1468653.146865
While attending the cremation of his mother's remains, London bank manager Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets aging eccentric Augusta Bertram (Maggie Smith), a flaming redhead who claims to be his aunt and announces that the woman who raised him was not his biological mother. She invites him back to her apartment, where her lover, an African fortune teller named Zachary Wordsworth (Louis Gossett Jr.), is waiting for her. Shortly after she receives a package allegedly containing the severed finger of her true love, Ercole Visconti (Robert Stephens), with a note promising the two will be reunited upon payment of $100,000 ($433,000 in 2013 dollars).