Aldo Vergano was an Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
Born in Rome, Vergano was the co-founder with Alessandro Blasetti of the magazine Cinematografo.
He made his film debut with the screenplay of Blasetti's Sun, one of the most important films of the Italian silent cinema. In the thirties, though persecuted by fascism for his political views, he was a prolific screenwriter of Telefoni Bianchi films. He made his debut as a director with the patriotic drama Pietro Micca.
Vergano is probably best known for the film Il sole sorge ancora, produced by the PNA, (the National Association of Italian Partisans), which is considered "one of the cornerstones of neorealism".
Selected filmography
Aldo comes from the Latin altus and means "the tall one."
Aldo may refer to:
People
The Planet of the Apes franchise features many characters that appear in one or more works.
Main characters
Caesar
Original films
Milo, better known as Caesar, is a fictional character in the Planet of the Apes franchise. He is named after Julius Caesar.
The character of Caesar has had major participation in original film series and the reboot film series.
In Escape from the Planet of the Apes
He is the son of talking chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira. Originally named Milo after Dr. Milo, who travelled back in time with Cornelius and Zira to the Earth of Taylor's era, he was reared by his human foster father Armando, a traveling circus owner who gave Cornelius and Zira sanctuary when Zira went into labor in the final act of Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Before departing, Zira switched the infant Milo with a young chimpanzee recently born to Armando's primitive chimpanzee, Heloise. Heloise's baby was killed, along with Zira, by the human Dr. Otto Hasslein. After Cornelius kills Hasslein, he is shot by a Marine Corps sniper. Milo speaks his first word, "Mama", at the very end of the film. His false identity secure, Milo grew up as a mute acrobat.
The ALDO Group (corporately styled "ALDO") is a private Canadian corporation that owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessory stores. The company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec, in 1972, where its corporate headquarters remain today. It has grown to become a worldwide corporation, with nearly 2,000 stores under three retail banners: ALDO, Call It Spring/Spring and GLOBO. Stores in Canada, the US, the U.K., and Ireland are owned by the Group, while international stores are franchised. The company once operated the now closed or rebranded banners Little Burgundy (which it sold to Genesco), Simard & Voyer, Christian Shoes, Access, Pegabo, Transit, Stoneridge, Locale, Feetfirst and FIRST (which was the American version of Feetfirst).