Roberto Mauri (8 February 1924 – 18 February 2018) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.
Roberto Mauri | |
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 Mauri in 1953 | |
| Born | Giuseppe Tagliavia 8 February 1924 Castelvetrano, Italy |
| Died | 18 February 2018 (aged 94) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
Life and career
editBorn Giuseppe Tagliavia in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Mauri began his career as a film actor in low-budget films, occasionally even playing main roles.[1] He debuted as a director co-directing with Andrea Bianchi the crime film La legge del mitra, in which he was also an actor.[1] Mainly active between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Mauri specialized in the Spaghetti Western genre, in which he was sometimes credited as Robert Johnson.[1][2] He died in Rome, Italy on 18 February 2018, at the age of 94.[3]
Selected filmography
edit- Actor
- Apparition (1943)
- The Devil's Gondola (1946)
- The Opium Den (1947)
- They Were Three Hundred (1952)
- Francis the Smuggler (1953)
- La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953)
- Director and screenwriter
- Slaughter of the Vampires (1962)
- Three Swords for Rome (1964)
- The Invincible Brothers Maciste (1964)
- Night of Violence (1965)
- Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
- Kong Island (1968)
- Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
- Wanted Sabata (1970)
- He Was Called Holy Ghost (1971)
- Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman (1971)[4]
- Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare (1974)
References
edit- ^ a b c Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
- ^ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-8804572770.
- ^ "Roberto Mauri". Les Gens du Cinema. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ "Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015.
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