Marco Leto (18 January 1931 – 21 April 2016) was an Italian film and television director and

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. Born in Rome, Leto started his career in the 1950s as an assistant director in a large number of films. In 1965 he started a collaboration with

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, for which he directed several serials and TV movies. After signing some screenplays, Leto made his film directorial debut in 1973, with the critically appreciated ''

Black Holiday ''Black Holiday'' () is a 1973 Italian Political cinema, political drama film directed by Marco Leto and starring Adalberto Maria Merli and Adolfo Celi. Cast * Adolfo Celi as Commissioner Rizzuto * Adalberto Maria Merli as Franco Rossini * John ...

''. In the following years he kept active both in cinema and in television.

Selected filmography

* ''

Pistol for a Hundred Coffins ''Pistol for a Hundred Coffins'' (, (''The Taste of Hate''), also known as ''A Gun for One Hundred Graves'' and ''Vengeance'') is a 1968 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Peter Lee Lawrence ...

'' (1968, screenwriter) * ''

Dead Men Don't Count ''Dead Men Don't Count'' (, , also known as ''Cry for Revenge'') is a 1968 Spanish-Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Rafael Romero Marchent Rafael Romero Marchent (3 May 1926 – 13 February 2020) was a Spanish director, scr ...

'' (1968, screenwriter) * '' Dear Parents'' (1973, screenwriter) * ''

'' (1973, director and screenwriter) * ''

Al piacere di rivederla ''Al piacere di rivederla'' is a 1976 Italian giallo-comedy film directed by Marco Leto. It is based on the novel ''Ritratto di provincia in rosso'' by Paolo Levi. Cast * Ugo Tognazzi: Mario Aldara * Françoise Fabian: Viviana Bonfigli * Miou-Mi ...

'' (1976, director and screenwriter)

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* * 1931 births 2016 deaths Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Italian television directors Film directors from Rome Nastro d'Argento winners {{Italy-film-director-stub