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Sergio Leone Snapshot

First Name

Sergio

Last Name

Leone

Date of Birth

03 January 1929

Height

Build

Large

Hair Color

Salt and Pepper

Place of Birth

Rome, Italy

Star Sign

Capricorn

Date of Death

30 April 1989

Place of Death

Rome, Italy

Cause of Death

(heart attack)

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Roman Catholic

Gender

Male

Nationality

Italian

Wikipedia Text

Sergio Leone (Italian pronunciation: January 3, 1929 � April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.

Couple Profile

Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (aka Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy`s cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and American directors working in Italy (usually making Biblical and Roman epics, much in vogue at the time). Towards the end of the 1950s he started writing screenplays, and began directing after taking over Ultimi giorni di Pompei, Gli (1959) in mid-shoot after its original director fell ill. His first solo feature, Colosso di Rodi, Il (1961), was a routine Roman epic, but his second feature, Per un pugno di dollari (1964), a shameless remake of Akira Kurosawa`s Yojimbo (1961), caused a revolution. Although it wasn`t the first spaghetti Western, it was far and away the most successful, and shot former TV cowboy Clint Eastwood to stardom (Leone wanted Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson but couldn`t afford them). The two sequels, Per qualche dollaro in pi� (1965) and Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966), were shot on much higher budgets and were even more successful, though his masterpiece, C`era una volta il West (1968), in which Leone finally worked with Fonda and Bronson, was mutilated by Paramount Pictures and flopped at the US box office. He directed Gi� la testa (1971) reluctantly, and turned down offers to direct The Godfather (1972) in favor of his dream project, which became Once Upon a Time in America (1984). He died in 1989 after preparing an even more expensive Soviet co-production on the World War II siege of Leningrad.

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www.imdb.com/name/nm0001466/bio

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