Fernando Di Leo
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film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and script writer
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
born in San Ferdinando di Puglia
San Ferdinando di Puglia
San Ferdinando di Puglia is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.-References:...
. During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43. His films influenced many popular contemporary directors, such as Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
and John Woo
John Woo
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...
.
Di Leo started his career mostly writing scripts for spaghetti westerns. He worked on the script for Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars, 1964) and later as assistant director and assistant to Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...
in Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More, 1965). Later, he wrote scripts for such westerns as Navajo Joe
Navajo Joe
Navajo Joe is a 1966 Italian/Spanish Spaghetti Western, directed by Sergio Corbucci. It was filmed in Spain.Navajo Joe stars Burt Reynolds in his second leading role in a feature film, as the titular character, a Navajo Indian opposing a group of bandits responsible for killing his tribe.The film's...
(1966) and Johnny Yuma (1967). Di Leo is now best remembered for his poliziotteschi
Poliziotteschi
Poliziotteschi films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s...
films, especially the Milieu Trilogy, which he both wrote and directed. The trilogy contains Milano calibro 9
Milano calibro 9
Milano calibro 9 is a poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian crime film specialist Fernando Di Leo in 1972. The film is based on a novel of the same name written by Giorgio Scerbanenco...
(1972), La mala ordina
La mala ordina
La mala ordina or Manhunt is a poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian crime film specialist Fernando Di Leo in 1972. It is the second part of Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy, starting with Milano calibro 9 in 1972 and ending with Il Boss in 1973...
(Manhunt, 1972) and Il boss
Il Boss
Il Boss, aka The Boss or Wipeout! is a poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian crime film specialist Fernando Di Leo in 1973...
(The Boss, 1973).
Filmography as director
- Gli eroi di ieri... oggi... e domani (1964)
- Rose rosse per il fuehrer (Red Roses for the Führer, 1968)
- I ragazzi del massacro (Naked Violence, 1969)
- Brucia, ragazzo, brucia (A Woman on Fire, 1969)
- Amarsi maleAmarsi maleA Wrong Way to Love is a 1969 Italian drama film. It was directed by Fernando Di Leo. It stars Nieves Navarro, Gianni Macchia, Micaela Pignatelli, Lucio Dalla, and Lea Lander....
(A Wrong Way to Love, 1969) - La bestia uccide a sangue freddo (Slaughter Hotel, also known as The Beast Kills in Cold Blood, 1971)
- Milano calibro 9Milano calibro 9Milano calibro 9 is a poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian crime film specialist Fernando Di Leo in 1972. The film is based on a novel of the same name written by Giorgio Scerbanenco...
(Caliber 9, 1972) - La mala ordinaLa mala ordinaLa mala ordina or Manhunt is a poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian crime film specialist Fernando Di Leo in 1972. It is the second part of Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy, starting with Milano calibro 9 in 1972 and ending with Il Boss in 1973...
(Manhunt, 1972) - Il bossIl BossIl Boss, aka The Boss or Wipeout! is a poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian crime film specialist Fernando Di Leo in 1973...
(The Boss, 1973) - La seduzione (Seduction, 1973)
- Il poliziotto è marcio (Shoot First, Die Later, 1974)
- Colpo in canna (Loaded Guns, 1975)
- La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori (Kidnap Syndicate, 1975)
- Gli amici di Nick HezardGli amici di Nick HezardGli amici di Nick Hezard is a 1976 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
(Nick the Sting, 1976) - I padroni della città (Rulers of the City, also known as Mister Scarface, 1976)
- Diamanti sporchi di sangue (Blood and Diamonds, 1977)
- Avere vent'anniAvere vent'anniAvere vent'anni, aka Being Twenty and To Be Twenty is a 1978 Italian erotic-drama film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Gloria Guida, Lilli Carati and Ray Lovelock.- Plot :...
(To Be Twenty, 1978) - Vacanze per un massacro (Madness, 1980)
- Razza violenta (The Violent Breed, 1984)
- Killer Contro Killers (Killer Vs Killers, 1985)