Poste Italiane issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring Leone
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Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.
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entertainment · Italian filmmaker (1929–1989) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · actor · film actor · director · producer · writer · film screenwriter · composer · also Sergio Leone, Bob Robertson, Leone
Born 3 January 1929 · Died 30 April 1989 · Q164562
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1989· 2 entries
Died 1989-04-30.
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“I am showing the Old West as it really was. Cinema takes violence from life. Not the other way around. Americans treat Westerns with too much rhetoric.”
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1988· 1 entry
Was head of the jury at the 45th Venice International Film Festival
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1987· 1 entry
Sergio Leone contacted his old collaborators Sergio Donati and Fulvio Morsella, pitching an idea for a TV miniseries about a Colt revolver that passed from owner to owner throughout the Old West, similar to Anthony Mann'
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1982· 1 entry
Leone was impressed with Harrison Salisbury's non-fiction book The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, and he planned on adapting the book as a war epic
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1978· 1 entry
Was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival
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1969· 1 entry
Leone was contracted to direct 99 and 44/100% Dead with Marcello Mastroianni and Charles Bronson starring
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1967· 1 entry
To direct Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) for Paramount Pictures
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-01-03.
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