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Duccio Tessari

Duccio Tessari

Italian filmmaker (1926–1994)

Duccio Tessari (11 October 1926 – 6 September 1994) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, considered one of the fathers of Spaghetti Westerns.[1]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

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, directing some successful TV-series. He died of cancer in Rome, at 67.[2] He was married to actress Lorella De Luca.[1][2]

Filmography

Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.
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