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Fernando Di Leo

Film Director / Screenwriter / Writer / Actor | * 01/11/1932 († 71, 12/01/2003) | San Ferdinando di Puglia (Italy)
Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. ()

Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985.Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in San Ferdinando di Puglia. After briefly working in Rome's film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, di Leo made his debut as a director as part of the omnibus comedy Gli eroi di ieri, oggi, domani with his episode titled Un posto in paradiso (transl. A Place in Heaven). Following this Di Leo wrote several scripts for Westerns, often uncredited. This included work on A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More. Some of his Westerns had uncredited literary sources, such as Days of Vengeance which is loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.Di Leo was a fan of film noir and Wanted to make an Italian version of these films. Among his first efforts was the script for Mino Guerrini's Date for a Murder based on Franco Enna's novel Tempo di massacro written in 1955. In Di Leo's version, the setting is moved to a contemporary Rome and has elements of contemporary spy films. Di Leo worked with Guerrini again on the film Gangsters '70 which did not do well at the box office. Di Leo began directing more of his own films at the time including the war film Red Roses for the Fuhrer and a few erotic films: A Woman on Fire, A Wrong Way to Love and Seduction. From 1969 to 1976, di Leo was able to produce many of his own works with his production company Duania cineproduzioni 70. He followed this with a return to noir with Naked Violence, a film adapting a novel by Giorgio Scerbanenco, a writer who Di Leo would adapt for several future film productions.Di Leo would make a giallo film with Slaughter Hotel starring Klaus Kinski and Margaret Lee. Following this Di Leo worked on Caliber 9 and The Italian Connection which were both inspired by the writing of Scerbanenco. He followed up this film Il Boss, a film which got Di Leo in trouble with politicians and authorities due to the film's display of connections between the mafia and Italy's major party Democrazia Cristiana. Di Leo followed this up with Shoot First, Die Later in 1974. Di Leo worked through the latter half of the 1970s directing Mister Scarface, Kidnap Syndicate, and Nick the Sting. He also wrote scripts for other directors such as Romolo Guerrieri's Young, Violent, Dangerous, and Ruggero Deodato's Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man. Di Leo's last film produced by his company Duania cineproduzioni 70 was Rulers of the City in 1976. He continued with a few more films after with the film noir Blood and Diamonds, the erotic drama To Be Twenty - both in 1978, and Madness in 1980.Di Leo worked in television in the 1980s, starting with the television series L'assassino ha le ore contate, which involved six one-hour-long made-for-TV films produced by RAI Uno which as of 2013 are unreleased. Di Leo also made The Violent Breed and his last film Killer vs. Killers in the mid-1980s. Killer vs. Killers wasn't released theatrically in Italy and only surfaced 20 years later on DVD.Di Leo died in December 2003.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Western | Crime | Action

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Movies with Fernando Di Leo as Actor(12)

as Self - Filmmaker2001 Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Man Giving Directions1978 To Be Twenty
as Film Director in Front of Police Station (uncredited)1976 Nick the Sting
as TV Journalist1974 Italian Sex
as Cocchi's Henchman (uncredited)1973 The Boss
as Man at House of Prostitution1969 Amarsi male
as Fuentes Henchman1965 The Return of Ringo
as Cigar Smoking Card Player (uncredited)1965 For a Few Dollars More

Movies with Fernando Di Leo as Crew(78)

Writing/Original Film Writer2023 A Bunch of Bastards
Directing/Director1985 Killer vs Killers
Writing/Writer1985 Killer vs Killers
Writing/Screenplay1985 Killer vs Killers
Directing/Director1984 The Violent Breed
Writing/Screenplay1984 The Violent Breed
Directing/Director1982 Pover'ammore
Directing/Director1980 Madness
Writing/Screenplay1980 Madness
Directing/Director1978 To Be Twenty
Writing/Screenplay1978 To Be Twenty
Writing/Story1978 To Be Twenty
Directing/Director1978 Blood and Diamonds
Writing/Story1978 Blood and Diamonds
Writing/Screenplay1978 Blood and Diamonds
Writing/Story1976 Young, Violent, Dangerous
Writing/Screenplay1976 Young, Violent, Dangerous
Directing/Director1976 Rulers of the City
Writing/Screenplay1976 Rulers of the City
Writing/Story1976 Rulers of the City
Directing/Director1976 Nick the Sting
Writing/Screenplay1976 Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Directing/Director1975 Kidnap Syndicate
Writing/Screenplay1975 Kidnap Syndicate
Directing/Director1975 Loaded Guns
Writing/Screenplay1975 Loaded Guns
Directing/Director1974 Italian Sex
Directing/Director1974 Shoot First, Die Later
Writing/Screenplay1974 Shoot First, Die Later
Directing/Director1973 The Boss
Writing/Writer1973 The Boss
Directing/Director1973 Seduction
Writing/Writer1973 Seduction
Directing/Director1972 Caliber 9
Writing/Story1972 Caliber 9
Writing/Screenplay1972 Caliber 9
Directing/Director1972 The Italian Connection
Writing/Writer1972 The Italian Connection
Directing/Director1971 Slaughter Hotel
Writing/Screenplay1971 Slaughter Hotel
Writing/Story1971 Slaughter Hotel
Directing/Director1969 Naked Violence
Writing/Screenplay1969 Naked Violence
Directing/Director1969 A Woman on Fire
Directing/Director1969 Amarsi male
Writing/Writer1969 Amarsi male
Writing/Writer1968 The Ruthless Four
Writing/Writer1968 Gangsters '70
Directing/Director1968 Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Writing/Story1968 Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Writing/Screenplay1968 Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Writing/Screenplay1968 Beyond the Law
Writing/Screenplay1968 God Made Them... I Kill Them
Writing/Story1968 And Then a Time for Killing
Writing/Screenplay1968 And Then a Time for Killing
Writing/Screenplay1967 Long Days of Vengeance
Writing/Writer1967 Poker with Pistols
Writing/Screenplay1967 Seven Women for the MacGregors
Writing/Screenplay1967 Death Rides Along
Writing/Screenplay1967 Date for a Murder
Writing/Screenplay1967 Wanted
Writing/Writer1967 Hate for Hate
Writing/Writer1967 La lunga sfida
Writing/Story1966 Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang
Writing/Screenplay1966 Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang
Writing/Screenplay1966 Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Writing/Screenplay1966 Johnny Yuma
Writing/Screenplay1966 Massacre Time
Writing/Story1966 Massacre Time
Crew/Additional Writing1966 Django
Writing/Screenplay1966 Navajo Joe
Directing/Assistant Director1965 The Return of Ringo
Writing/Screenplay1965 The Return of Ringo
Crew/Additional Writing1965 For a Few Dollars More
Directing/Assistant Director1965 For a Few Dollars More
Writing/Screenplay1964 A Fistful of Dollars

Full Name: Fernando Di Leo
Citizenship: Italy
Born: Monday, 01/11 1932 (January) in San Ferdinando di Puglia (Italy)
Died: Monday, 12/01 2003 (December) in Rome (aged: 71)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: Italian (IT)
Siblings: Rita Di Leo
Fernando Di Leo frequently works together with these people:
Amedeo Giomini (16x, Crew)
Francesco Cuppini (15x, Crew)
Luis Bacalov (12x, Crew)
Gilberto Galimberti (11x, Actor)
Armando Novelli (11x, Crew)
Ennio Morricone (10x, Crew)
Franco Villa (10x, Crew)
Salvatore Billa (9x, Actor)
Omero Capanna (9x, Actor)
Ettore Geri (8x, Actor)
Carlo Simi (8x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:310502, Added: 08/13/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024