Fernando Di Leo | |
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Born |
San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy | 11 January 1932
Died | 1 December 2003
Rome, Italy | (aged 71)
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 1 December 2003) [1] was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. [2]
Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in San Ferdinando di Puglia. [2] After briefly working in a Rome 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). [3] Following this Di Leo wrote several scripts for Westerns, often uncredited. [3] This included work on A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. [3] Some of his Westerns had uncredited literary sources, such as Days of Vengeance which as loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. [3]
Di Leo was a fan of film noir and wanted to make an Italian version of these films. [3] 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. [3] In Di Leo's version, the setting is moved to a contemporary Rome and has elements of contemporary spy films. [3] Di Leo worked with Guerrini again on the film Gangsters '70 which did not do well in the box office. [3] 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. [3] From 1969 to 1976, di Leo was able to produce many of his own works with his production company Duania cineproduzioni 70. [2] 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. [3]
Di Leo would make a giallo film with Slaughter Hotel starring Klaus Kinski and Margaret Lee. [3] Following this Di Leo worked on Caliber 9 and The Italian Connection which were both inspired by the writing of Scerbanenco. [3] He followed up this film Il Boss, a film which got Di Leo in trouble with politicians and authorities due to the films display connections between the mafia and the Italy's major party Democrazia Cristiana. [3] Di Leo followed this up with Shoot First, Die Later in 1974. [3] Di Leo worked through the latter half of the 1970's directing Mister Scarface, Kidnap Syndicate, and Nick the Sting. [4] 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. [4] Di Leo's last film produced by his company Duania cineproduzioni 70 was Rulers of the City in 1976. [4] 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. [4]
Di Leo worked in television in the 1980's, 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. [4] Di Leo also made The Violent Breed and his last film Killer vs. Killers towards the mid-1980's. [4] Killer vs. Killers wasn't released theatrically in Italy and only surfaced 20 years later on DVD. [5]
Di Leo died in December 2003. [5]
Fernando Di Leo | |
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Born |
San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy | 11 January 1932
Died | 1 December 2003
Rome, Italy | (aged 71)
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 1 December 2003) [1] was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. [2]
Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in San Ferdinando di Puglia. [2] After briefly working in a Rome 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). [3] Following this Di Leo wrote several scripts for Westerns, often uncredited. [3] This included work on A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. [3] Some of his Westerns had uncredited literary sources, such as Days of Vengeance which as loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. [3]
Di Leo was a fan of film noir and wanted to make an Italian version of these films. [3] 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. [3] In Di Leo's version, the setting is moved to a contemporary Rome and has elements of contemporary spy films. [3] Di Leo worked with Guerrini again on the film Gangsters '70 which did not do well in the box office. [3] 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. [3] From 1969 to 1976, di Leo was able to produce many of his own works with his production company Duania cineproduzioni 70. [2] 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. [3]
Di Leo would make a giallo film with Slaughter Hotel starring Klaus Kinski and Margaret Lee. [3] Following this Di Leo worked on Caliber 9 and The Italian Connection which were both inspired by the writing of Scerbanenco. [3] He followed up this film Il Boss, a film which got Di Leo in trouble with politicians and authorities due to the films display connections between the mafia and the Italy's major party Democrazia Cristiana. [3] Di Leo followed this up with Shoot First, Die Later in 1974. [3] Di Leo worked through the latter half of the 1970's directing Mister Scarface, Kidnap Syndicate, and Nick the Sting. [4] 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. [4] Di Leo's last film produced by his company Duania cineproduzioni 70 was Rulers of the City in 1976. [4] 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. [4]
Di Leo worked in television in the 1980's, 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. [4] Di Leo also made The Violent Breed and his last film Killer vs. Killers towards the mid-1980's. [4] Killer vs. Killers wasn't released theatrically in Italy and only surfaced 20 years later on DVD. [5]
Di Leo died in December 2003. [5]