Tonino Valerii
Tonino Valerii (actually Antonio Valerii ; born May 20, 1934 in Montorio al Vomano ; † October 13, 2016 in Teramo ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Life
Valerii started out in the film business as a documentary filmmaker, assistant director and screenwriter. With Ernesto Gastaldi he wrote (under a pseudonym) horror films and assisted Sergio Leone in his spaghetti westerns For A Fistful Of Dollars And For A Few Dollars More . These two films were groundbreaking for his style as a stand-alone director. This becomes clear in his first two larger western productions, created after his debut, Death Rode Tuesdays and Bloody Lead . After a good thriller, Mio caro assassino , he presented you sell death, a serious western starring James Coburn and Bud Spencer , which was also heavily shortened in Germany as The Fat and the Warthog and marketed with slapstick synchronization. Valerii was best known for his parody of the old westerns, My Name Is Nobody , on which he worked again with Leone, who was the producer (and unnamed director of some scenes). Once again, however, the German version lost a lot of its message and quality. After a crime film and an action flick , he turned to television works, among which stands out Prova d'innozenza from 1990 with Enrico Montesano in a serious role. Valerii's cinema works of the 1980s are hardly remarkable imitations of American role models.
Filmography
Assistant director:
- 1964: For a handful of dollars (Per un pugno di dollari)
- 1965: For a few dollars more (Per qualche dollaro in più)
Director:
- 1966: Lanky Fellow - The Lonely Avenger (Per il gusto di uccidere)
- 1967: Death Rode Tuesdays (I giorni dell'ira) (& screenplay)
- 1969: Bloody lead (Il prezzo del potere)
- 1970: The girl Julius (La ragazza di nome Giulio) (also screenplay and actor)
- 1972: Mio caro assassino (& screenplay)
- 1972: You sell death (Una ragione per vivere e una per morire) (& screenplay)
- 1973: My name is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno)
- 1976: The gorilla pays the bill (Vai gorilla)
- 1977: Sahara Cross - duel in the desert (Sahara Cross) (& screenplay)
- 1986: Brothers in Blood (La sporca insegna del coraggio)
- 1986: Unscrupulous (Senza scrupoli) (& screenplay)
- 1987: Sicilian Connection
- 1997: Una vacanza all'inferno
Screenplay (selection):
- 1964: A dead man hung on a bell rope (La Cripta e l'incubo)
as an actor:
- 2007: All'amore assente; Directed by Andrea Adriatico
Web links
- Tonino Valerii in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tonino Valerii on nerdistan.at
- Obituary for Tonino Valerii
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ^ Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi, Roberto Chiti: Dizionario del cinema italiano - I registi . Rom, Gremese 2002, pp. 429/430
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valerii, Tonino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Valerii, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montorio al Vomano |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2016 |
| Place of death | Teramo |