Duccio Tessari

Duccio Tessari
Born	11 October 1926 Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Died	6 September 1994 (aged 67) Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Spouse(s)	Lorella De Luca

Duccio Tessari (11 October 1926 – 6 September 1994) was an Italian director, screenwriter and 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)

References

1. Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 88-04-57277-9.
2. Silvia Fumarola (7 September 1994). "Addio Duccio Tessari un regista per tutti". La Repubblica. Retrieved 9 January 2012.

External links

• Duccio Tessari at the Internet Movie Database