Roberto Mauri
Roberto Mauri (* 1924 in Castelvetrano ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Life
Mauri, who as an actor had shot his first minor role in a feature film in 1944 after two short films and appeared in smaller films from 1952 - he played a rare leading role in Gianfranco Parolini's François il contrabbandiere 1953 - devoted himself to a script for Ferdinando Merighi from 1958 directed and staged the vampire film The Vampire's Revenge in the early 1960s . The sandal film The Fall of the Leopard Empire , agent films and some spaghetti westerns followed ; his films were mostly cheaply produced for quick consumption and so hardly stuck in the mind.
In some films he used the pseudonyms Robert Johnson or Robert Morris .
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1962: The Vampire's Revenge (Il segno del vendicatore)
- 1963: Zarak, the rebel (Il pirata del diavolo)
- 1964: The fall of the leopard kingdom (Gli invincibili fratelli Maciste)
- 1965: Colorado Charlie (Colorado Charlie)
- 1965: The killer of sinful girls (Le notti della violenza)
- 1967: Django - his last greeting (La vendetta è il mio perdono)
- 1968: Commissioner X - Three golden snakes
- 1968: Naked among monkeys (Eva, la Venere selvaggia)
- 1970: The Feared (Sartana nella valle degli avvoltoi)
- 1970: Wanted Sabata
- 1971: … E lo chiamarono Spirito Santo
- 1972: The Norman Sword (La spada normanna)
- 1972: He sowed death (Seminò la morte… lo chiamavano “Castigo di Dio”)
- 1972: Un animale chiamato… uomo!
- 1972: Bada alla tua pelle Spirito Santo!
- 1972: Spirito Santo e le 5 magnifiche canaglie
- 1973: Corte marziale
- 1980: Le porno killers
Web links
- Roberto Mauri in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 281
- ^ Roberto Poppi, article Roberto Mauri , in: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Gremese 1998, pp. 315/316
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mauri, Roberto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Robert; Morris, Robert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Castelvetrano |