Duccio Tessari
Age: N/A | From: Genoa, Italy
Person Details
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Aliases: ドゥッチオ・テッサリ , ドゥッチョ・テッサリ
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Genoa, Italy
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Movie Involvements: 88
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
A Fistful of Dollars
(1964) Screenplay
Zorro
(1975) Director
The Return of Ringo
(1965) Screenplay
The Last Days of Pompeii
(1959) Writer
Duel of the Titans
(1961) Screenplay
Hercules in the Haunted World
(1961) Story
Big Guns
(1973) Director
A Pistol for Ringo
(1965) StoryActing
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| 1965 | Deputy Sheriff (uncredited) | |
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Directing
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| 1986 | Director | |
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| 1981 | Director | |
| 1978 | Director | |
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| 1964 | Director | |
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| 1960 | First Assistant Director | |
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| 1959 | First Assistant Director | |
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Writing
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| 1990 | Screenplay | |
| 1985 | Screenplay | |
| 1981 | Screenplay | |
| 1978 | Writer | |
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| 1968 | Writer | |
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| 1967 | Screenplay | |
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| 1966 | Screenplay | |
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| 1965 | Screenplay | |
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| 1964 | Screenplay | |
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| 1961 | Screenplay | |
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| 1960 | Screenplay | |
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| 1958 | Writer | |
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