- He was an Italian filmmaker active mainly in the silent era , and among the greatest of his time.
- In partnership with the lawyer Gioacchino Mecheri and the Marquis Alberto Del Gallo di Roccagiovane founded the film production company Celio Film of which he was artistic director and principal director.
- In 1912 he was hired by the Cines production company , where he first worked as a cameraman and then made his debut with the short film Primo bisticcio.
- Coming from an aristocratic Roman family of counts of Ligurian origin, he graduated in law , and practiced the profession of lawyer for a few years .
- He was married from 1923 to the actress Hesperia whom he directed in many films.
- In 1914 he moved to Milano Films where he was general manager , director and screenwriter. In the Milanese house he began his artistic partnership with the actress Olga Mambelli aka Hesperia , whom he married several years later, and he directed some films such as The Heir , The Last Battle , The Dance of the Millions , The Mask of Oneness , Nel foreign nest , war passes and atavistic vice .
- In 1916 he moved to the Rome- based Tiber Film , where until 1922 he directed a large number of films, such as His Majesty's Guard , Jou-Jou , Madame Sans Gêne 's Son , L'aiglette and La cuccagna .
- In 1913 he directed what was probably his most important film, L'Histoire d'un Pierrot , a complete reproduction of a musical pantomime by Mario Pasquale Costa. In this film starred the famous diva Francesca Bertini , the star Emilio Ghioneand a still "budding" diva, namely the actress Leda Gys .
- After a long period of inactivity, at the end of the 1920s Negroni worked at Fert - Pittaluga , where he directed the films Beatrice Cenci ( 1926 ), The carrier of Moncenisio ( 1927 ), The Last Tsars ( 1928 ) and Judith and Holofernes ( 1929 ).
- Negroni abandoned his activity as a lawyer to devote himself first to photography and then to cinematography . Passionate about the latter instrument, he got himself a camera and shot some amateur documentaries.
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