Tonino Delli Colli
Born: 1922-11-20 in Rome, Italy
Died: 2005-08-16
Known For: Camera
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer. Cousin of Franco Delli Colli, Antonio (Tonino) Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America), Roman Polanski (Death and the Maiden and Bitter Moon), Louis Malle (Lacombe, Lucien), Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose), and Federico Fellini, whose last three films he photographed. His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976). His last film was Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he won his fourth David di Donatello for Best Cinematography. In 2005 he was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' International Achievement Award. In August of the same year, he died at home in Rome. Tonino Delli Colli died from a heart attack in 2005 at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy. In 2005, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.
Filmography
2025
- 120 Days of Sodom Literally ... (Director of Photography)
2019
2006
2003
- An Opera of Violence as Self - DOP
- The Wages of Sin as Self - DOP
2001
- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - DOP
1997
- Life Is Beautiful ... (Director of Photography)
- Marianna Ucrìa ... (Director of Photography)
1995
- Looking for Paradise ... (Director of Photography)
1994
- Death and the Maiden ... (Director of Photography)
1992
- Bitter Moon ... (Director of Photography)
1991
- Especially on Sunday ... (Director of Photography)
- A Simple Story ... (Director of Photography)
1990
- The African Woman ... (Director of Photography)
- The Voice of the Moon ... (Director of Photography)
1988
- Stradivari ... (Director of Photography)
1987
- Intervista as Tonino Delli Colli (uncredited)
- La rosa dei nomi as Self
1986
- The Name of the Rose ... (Director of Photography)
- Ginger and Fred ... (Director of Photography)
- The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
1984
- Once Upon a Time in America ... (Director of Photography)
- The Future Is Woman ... (Director of Photography)
1983
- Trenchcoat ... (Director of Photography)
1981
- Hotel Room ... (Director of Photography)
- Tales of Ordinary Madness ... (Director of Photography)
- Ghost of Love ... (Director of Photography)
1980
- I'm Photogenic as Director of Photography (uncredited)
- Sunday Lovers ... (Director of Photography)
- Hurricane Rosie ... (Director of Photography)
1979
- Dear Father ... (Director of Photography)
- Lovers and Liars ... (Director of Photography)
1978
- Blood Feud ... (Director of Photography)
- First Love ... (Director of Photography)
1977
- Beach House ... (Director of Photography)
- The Purple Taxi ... (Director of Photography)
- The New Monsters ... (Director of Photography)
- Lost Soul ... (Director of Photography)
1976
- Dear Michele ... (Director of Photography)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom ... (Director of Photography)
1975
- Seven Beauties ... (Director of Photography)
1974
- Till Marriage Do Us Part ... (Director of Photography)
- Lacombe, Lucien ... (Director of Photography)
- The Walls of Sana'a ... (Director of Photography)
1973
- Bawdy Tales ... (Director of Photography)
- Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears ... (Director of Photography)
1972
- Pilgrimage ... (Director of Photography)
- The Master Touch ... (Director of Photography)
- The Canterbury Tales ... (Director of Photography)
1971
- Homo Eroticus ... (Director of Photography)
- The Decameron ... (Director of Photography)
1970
- Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You ... (Director of Photography)
- Operation Snafu ... (Director of Photography)
1969
- Pigsty ... (Director of Photography)
- Love Circle ... (Director of Photography)
1968
- Once Upon a Time in the West ... (Director of Photography)
- Spirits of the Dead ... (Director of Photography)
- The Day of the Owl ... (Director of Photography)
- Caprice Italian Style ... (Director of Photography)
- OSS 117 Murder for Sale ... (Director of Photography)
- What Are the Clouds? ... (Director of Photography)
1967
- China Is Near ... (Director of Photography)
- Ghosts, Italian Style ... (Director of Photography)
1966
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ... (Director of Photography)
- The Sultans ... (Director of Photography)
- The Hawks and the Sparrows ... (Director of Photography)
- Target for Killing ... (Director of Photography)
- We'll Go to the City ... (Director of Photography)
1965
- The Camp Followers ... (Director of Photography)
- The Mandrake ... (Director of Photography)
- Love Meetings ... (Director of Photography)
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew ... (Director of Photography)
- The Double Bed ... (Director of Photography)
1964
- Amori pericolosi ... (Director of Photography)
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers ... (Director of Photography)
- Love in Four Dimensions ... (Director of Photography)
- Extraconiugale ... (Director of Photography)
1963
- The Executioner ... (Director of Photography)
- Ro.Go.Pa.G. ... (Director of Photography)
- La bella di Lodi ... (Director of Photography)
1962
- Mamma Roma ... (Director of Photography)
- The Swordsman of Siena ... (Director of Photography)
- The Nun of Monza ... (Cinematography)
- The New Angels ... (Director of Photography)
1961
- Accattone ... (Director of Photography)
- The Thief of Baghdad ... (Director of Photography)
- The Wonders of Aladdin ... (Director of Photography)
1959
- L'amico del giaguaro ... (Director of Photography)
- First Love ... (Director of Photography)
- Poor Millionaires ... (Director of Photography)
- The Maids ... (Director of Photography)
1958
- Venice, the Moon and You ... (Director of Photography)
- Marinai, donne e guai ... (Director of Photography)
- Adorable and Lying ... (Director of Photography)
- Cortina de cristal ... (Editor)
1957
- Female Three Times ... (Director of Photography)
- Oh! Sabella ... (Director of Photography)
- Poor But Beautiful ... (Director of Photography)
- All Cream Susanna ... (Director of Photography)
- Poor Girl, Pretty Girl ... (Director of Photography)
- Seven Hills of Rome ... (Director of Photography)
- America By Night ... (Editor)
1956
- Donatella ... (Director of Photography)
1955
- The Intruder ... (Director of Photography)
- The White Angel ... (Director of Photography)
- Le signorine dello 04 ... (Director of Photography)
- Piccola posta ... (Director of Photography)
- It Happened in the Penitentiary ... (Director of Photography)
1954
- Night of Love ... (Director of Photography)
- The Shadow ... (Director of Photography)
- Rosso e nero ... (Director of Photography)
- Mid-Century Loves ... (Director of Photography)
1953
- I Always Loved You ... (Director of Photography)
- Gioventù alla sbarra ... (Director of Photography)
- Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair ... (Director of Photography)
1952
- Totó in color ... (Director of Photography)
- I tre corsari ... (Director of Photography)
- Toto and the Women ... (Director of Photography)
1951
- Io sono il capataz ... (Director of Photography)
- It's Him!... Yes! Yes! ... (Director of Photography)
- Il padrone del vapore ... (Director of Photography)
- Milano miliardaria ... (Director of Photography)
- Toto the Third Man ... (Director of Photography)
- Damn the Taxes!! ... (Director of Photography)
1950
- The Promise ... (Director of Photography)
- Fugitive Lady ... (Director of Photography)
- Alina ... (Director of Photography)
1949
- Fame and the Devil ... (Director of Photography)
- City of Pain ... (Director of Photography)
- La mano della morta ... (Director of Photography)
1948
- L'isola de Montecristo ... (Director of Photography)
1947
- Sinfonia fatale ... (Camera Operator)
1942
- Rossini ... (Assistant Camera)