At 21 years old he entered the cinema industry, working as a script surveyor and an assistant director.
[1] Active between 1933 and 1937 as a film editor, in 1939 he debuted as a director with Il Carnevale di Venezia.
His later career was mainly devoted to genre films, and failed to achieve significant critical interest.
[1] Dissatisfied with cinema, in the mid-1960s Gentilomo decided to abandon films and to instead fulfill his passion for painting.
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