Duccio Tessari
Duccio Tessari (11 October 1926 – 6 September 1994) was an Italian director, screenwriter and occasionally actor, considered one of the fathers of spaghetti westerns.[1]
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 its immediate sequel, The Return of Ringo.[1]
He later touched different genres and worked in RAI TV, directing some successful TV-series. He died of cancer in Rome, at 68.[2] He was married to actress Lorella De Luca.[1][2]
Filmography
- My Son, the Hero (1962)
- Il fornaretto di Venezia (1963)
- Secret of the Sphinx (1965)
- A Pistol for Ringo (1965)
- The Return of Ringo (1965)
- Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang (1966)
- Per amore... per magia (1967)
- Better a Widow (1968)
- Sons of Satan (1968)
- Sundance and the Kid (1969)
- Quella piccola differenza (1969)
- La morte risale a ieri sera (1970)
- Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate (1971)
- Long Live Your Death (1971)
- Winged Devils (1972)
- The Heroes (1973)
- Tony Arzenta / Big guns (1973)
- Puzzle (1974)
- Three Tough Guys (1974)
- Zorro (1975)
- Safari Express (1976)
- La madama (1976)
- The Fifth Commandment (1978)
- Tex e il signore degli abissi (1985)
- There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs (1989)
- Beyond Justice (1992)