Roberto Mauri
Roberto Mauri (born 1924) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
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| Born | Giuseppe Tagliavia 1924 Castelvetrano, Italy |
| Occupation | Film director |
Life and career
Born Giuseppe Tagliavia in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Mauri began his career as a film actor in low-budget films, occasionally even playing main roles.[1] He debuted as a director co-directing with Andrea Bianchi the crime film La legge del mitra, in which he was also an actor.[1] Mainly active between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Mauri specialized in the Spaghetti Western genre, in which he was sometimes credited as Robert Johnson.[1][2]
Selected filmography
- Actor
- The Devil's Gondola (1946)
- The Opium Den (1947)
- Eran trecento (1952)
- Francis the Smuggler (1953)
- La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953)
- Director and screenwriter
- Slaughter of the Vampires (1962)
- Three Swords for Rome (1964)
- The Invincible Brothers Maciste (1964)
- Night of Violence (1965)
- Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
- Kong Island (1968)
- Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
- Wanted Sabata (1970)
- He Was Called Holy Ghost (1971)
- Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman (1971)[3]
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gollark: *come to me, coppers, especially green ones*
gollark: *really really needs to hunt now*
gollark: How long did it take to get them?
References
- Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
- Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 8804572779.
- "Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman". The New York Times.
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