
Person
Duccio Tessari
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Oct 11, 1926
- Died
- Sep 6, 1994
- From
- Genoa, Italy
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.
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A Pistol for Ringo

In camera mia

Better a Widow

Italian Kings Of B

Hercules in the Haunted World

The Bloodstained Butterfly

The Return of Ringo

There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs

Zorro

Tex and the Lord of the Deep

Puzzle

Tony Arzenta

Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang

The Woman from Beirut

Death Occurred Last Night

Three Tough Guys

The Bastard

Alive or Preferably Dead