Duccio Tessari
Born: 1926-10-11 in Genoa, Italy
Died: 1994-09-06
Known For: Writing
Biography
Duccio Tessari was an Italian director, screenwriter and occasionally actor, considered one of the fathers of spaghetti westerns. Born in Genoa, Tessari started in the fifties as documentarist and as screenwriter of Peplum films. In 1964 he co-wrote Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, one year later he gained an impressive commercial success and launched the Giuliano Gemma's career with A Pistol for Ringo and his immediate sequel, The Return of Ringo. He later touched different genres and worked in RAI TV, directing some successful TV-series. He died of cancer in Rome, at 68. He was married to actress Lorella De Luca.
Filmography
2003
- Italian Kings Of B as Self
1992
- Beyond Justice ... (Director)
- In camera mia as Verso Sera
1991
- The Law of the Desert ... (Director)
1990
- There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs ... (Screenplay)
1986
- Please, Let the Flowers Live ... (Director)
1985
- Baciami Strega ... (Director)
- Tex and the Lord of the Deep ... (Screenplay)
1981
- Un centesimo di secondo ... (Director)
1978
- The Fifth Commandment ... (Director)
1976
- Safari Express ... (Director)
- La madama ... (Screenplay)
1975
- Zorro ... (Director)
1974
- Puzzle ... (Director)
- Three Tough Guys ... (Director)
1973
- Tony Arzenta ... (Director)
- The Heroes ... (Director)
1972
- Winged Devils ... (Director)
1971
- The Bloodstained Butterfly ... (Writer)
- Don't Turn the Other Cheek ... (Director)
1970
- Death Occurred Last Night ... (Director)
1969
- Alive or Preferably Dead ... (Screenplay)
- Quella piccola differenza ... (Director)
1968
- Better a Widow
- The Bastard ... (Director)
- A Train for Durango ... (Story)
1967
- Dick Smart 2.007 ... (Writer)
- Per amore... per magia... ... (Screenplay)
1966
- Seven Guns for the MacGregors ... (Screenplay)
- Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang ... (Story)
- Balearic Caper ... (Writer)
1965
- The Return of Ringo ... (Director)
- A Pistol for Ringo as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
- Dangerous Pleasures ... (Screenplay)
- The Woman from Beirut ... (Story)
1964
- A Fistful of Dollars ... (Screenplay)
- Secret of the Sphinx ... (Writer)
- The Avenger of Venice ... (Screenplay)
1963
- The Scapegoat ... (Director)
1962
- Marco Polo ... (Writer)
- My Son, the Hero ... (Director)
1961
- Hercules in the Haunted World ... (Screenplay)
- Romulus and Remus ... (Screenplay)
- Hercules and the Captive Women ... (Screenplay)
- The Wonders of Aladdin ... (Screenstory)
- Goliath and the Vampires ... (Screenplay)
- Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World ... (Screenplay)
1960
- Messalina ... (Screenplay)
- Colossus and the Amazon Queen ... (Screenplay)
- Love, the Italian Way ... (First Assistant Director)
- The Revenge of Hercules ... (Screenplay)
- Carthage in Flames ... (Co-Writer)
- Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan ... (First Assistant Director)
- The Revolt of the Slaves ... (Screenplay)
1959
- The Last Days of Pompeii ... (Writer)
1958
- Cannon Serenade ... (Writer)