Italian actor, director and film producer. Bodybuilder, after having served in the Regia Marina, he moved first to France and then to Germany, where in 1905 he became an acrobat at the Circus Busch in Berlin, gaining fame and notoriety in many countries. He later formed his own troupe which became famous throughout Europe. In 1913 he was hired by Pasquali Film of Turin, and made his debut with the film 'Spartaco'. A few years later he was hired by Ambrosio Film, where he began in 1917 with 'La spirale della morte', the title of which was taken from one of his acrobatic moves at the time of his circus activity. Called up during the First World War, he resumed his cinematographic activity in 1918, and returned to Pasquali Film, he left again with 'Sansone contro i filistei', the first film of the Sansone series, a strong character that Albertini subsequently played in other films until 1920, which they gave him considerable popularity. Beside him, as members of the Sansone family, were his wife Sansonette (Linda Albertini) and two small acrobats and child actors, Arnaldo and Aldo Mezzanotte, playing their children. In 1919 he gave birth to Albertini Film, a film production house whose activities were short-lived, and which among other things produced what is considered by many to be the first Italian horror film, 'Il mostro di Frankenstein' (1921), starring himself. Subsequently he emigrated to Germany, where he carried out an intense and important cinematographic activity, both as a producer (in Berlin he created the Albertini-Film GmbH) and as an interpreter, until 1932. In 1924 he also shot a film in the United States, entitled 'The Iron Man' directed by Jay Marchant and produced by Universal, but the success overseas was very modest. His career ended in the early 1930s, and this was mainly due to health problems generated by a dipsomania. Afflicted by economic and psychological problems, Albertini returned to Italy, and spent the last years of his life hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Budrio.