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Duccio Tessari
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Film & TV
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…
Known for
- Italian Kings Of B — Self2003
- In camera mia — Verso Sera1992
- Better a Widow1968
- A Pistol for Ringo — Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)1965
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Genoa
- Place of death
- Rome
- Spouse
- Lorella De Luca
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Genre
- Spaghetti Western
- Image
- Duccio Tessari 1984.jpg
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- cause of death
- cancer
- date of birth
- 1926-10-11
- date of death
- 1994-09-06
- manner of death
- natural causes
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Duccio Tessari
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- birth name
- Amadeo Tessari
- Commons category
- Duccio Tessari
- place of burial
- Cimitero Flaminio
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