Tonino Valerii (20 May 1934 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

, most known for his

Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

s. Tonino (Antonio) Valerii started his film career as an assistant director on

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's ''

A Fistful of Dollars ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (, (''For a Fistful of Dollars'')) is a 1964 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Si ...

'', before moving on to direct by himself. Among his best-known films are ''

Day of Anger ''Day of Anger'' ( , lit. "The Days of Wrath") is a 1967 Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Tonino Valerii and starring Lee Van Cleef and Giuliano Gemma, and features a musical score by Riz Ortolani. The film credits the novel ' ...

'' (1967) '' The Price of Power'' (1969), ''

My Dear Killer ''My Dear Killer'' () is a 1972 Italian-Spanish giallo film directed by Tonino Valerii and starring George Hilton (actor), George Hilton, Marilù Tolo, Patty Shepard, Helga Line, Salvo Randone and William Berger (actor), William Berger. Some criti ...

'' (1972), ''

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die ''A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die'' (originally titled ''Una Ragione Per Vivere E Una Per Morire'', also known as ''Massacre at Fort Holman'') is a 1972 Technicolor Italian spaghetti Western movie starring James Coburn, Bud Spencer, and Telly S ...

'' (1972) and '' My Name Is Nobody'' (1973), starring

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and

Terence Hill Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with hi ...

. In 1970, he directed '' A Girl Called Jules'', which was entered into the

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. He died on 13 October 2016 in a clinic in

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at the age of 82.

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* 1934 births 2016 deaths People from Teramo Italian-language film directors Italian film directors Spaghetti Western directors Italian male screenwriters {{Italy-film-director-stub