Nelo Cosimi

Nelo Cosimi was born in 1894 in Macerata, Italy, and arrived in Argentina at the age of four with his parents, according to Peter H. Rist. He began as an actor under the silent-film director José Agustín Ferreyra, and played the lead role as early as 1917. He wrote his first screenplays in 1921 and directed his first film in 1922; he directed thirteen, often with the actress Chita Foras, whom he married in 1929. He died in Buenos Aires on 5 October 1945.

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• CinemaLa quena de la muerteNelo Cosimi · 1929Cinema