Enrico Bomba

Enrico Bomba (born 2 August 1922) is an Italian movie producer, director, and screenwriter. He also worked in television. He was born in Amatrice, Province of Rieti.

Enrico Bomba and Jayne Mansfield

Biography

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/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, Great Mazinger and two works taken from the French novel Sans Famille: the anime TV series Nobody's Boy: Remi, and the French television miniseries Sans Famille. During the late 1970s, he made three more films for Cinestampa Internazionale which involved the work of anime artist Gō Nagai. He retired in the early 1990s.[1]

Personal life

Bomba had an affair with Jayne Mansfield in Italy in 1962, while she was married to Mickey Hargitay.[2] Bomba married to stage and voice actress Germana Dominici. They had two children, Federica Bomba[3] (b. 1975) and Olivia "Lilli" Manzini (b. 1976), who are also actors. His father-in-law was film and voice actor Arturo Dominici.

Filmography

As director
  • Prigionieri delle tenebre (Prisoners of Darkness) (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
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References

Citation
  1. Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, S. 63/64
  2. Getty Images.
  3. IL MONDO DEI DOPPIATORI. Accessed 7 July 2020.


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