Duccio Tessari (11 October 1926 – 6 September 1994) was an Italian director, screenwriter and actor, considered one of the fathers of
Spaghetti Westerns.
Born in
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
, Tessari started in the fifties as documentarist and as screenwriter of
peplum films
Peplum originates in the Greek word for 'tunic' and may refer to one of the following:
*Sword-and-sandal
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla plural), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or Biblical epics mo ...
. In 1964 he co-wrote
Sergio Leone's ''
A Fistful of Dollars
''A Fistful of Dollars'' ( it, Per un pugno di dollari, lit=For a Fistful of Dollars titled on-screen as ''Fistful of Dollars'') is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, ...
'', one year later he gained an impressive commercial success and launched the
Giuliano Gemma's career with ''
A Pistol for Ringo'' and its immediate sequel, ''
The Return of Ringo''.
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He later touched different genres and worked in ]RAI TV
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many ter ...
, directing some successful TV-series. He died of cancer in Rome, at 67.[
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Filmography
:Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.
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1926 births
Film people from Genoa
1994 deaths
Italian film directors
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
Spaghetti Western directors
Deaths from cancer in Lazio
Giallo film directors
20th-century Italian male writers
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