Celebrity Biographies
Tonino Valerii
His career grew thanks to the patronage of Sergio Leone, and how he is remembered above all for his spaghetti-westerns, especially the one that responded to the title “My name is none.” The filmmaker has passed away at the age of 82.
His filmography is not very extensive, but nevertheless this filmmaker born in Abruzzo knew how to deliver a handful of titles appreciated by those who know the ins and outs of Italian cinema. Curiously, after studying at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome, his first steps in the cinema were not in the spaghetti-western with which he is always associated, but with gothic horror, he contributed to the scripts of two films shot in 1964, The Karnstein Curse and The Long Hair of Death .
But it is clear that it was his collaboration with Sergio Leone as an assistant director on For a Fistful of Dollars that opened more doors for him, which remained open until the 1970s, after which only minor works would come. Combining the roles of screenwriter and director, he debuted behind the camera with Bounty Hunter in 1966, and then came The Day of Wrath (1967), considered his best work, The Death of a President (1969), A Reason to Live and a reason to die (1972) and My name is none (1973).
Although he tried other genres such as thrillers, and in the 80s he appeared on television, shooting one last film in 1997, A Holiday in Hell , that was a long swan song without the vigor of those first series titles. B, which still retain their charm today.