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Duccio Tessari
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Duccio Tessari was an Italian director, screenwriter and occasionally actor, considered one of the fathers of spaghetti westerns. Born in Genoa, Tessari started in the fifties as documentarist and as screenwriter of Peplum films. In 1964 he co-wrote Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, one year later he gained an impressive commercial success and launched the Giuliano Gemma's career with A Pistol for Ringo and his immediate sequel, The Return of Ringo. He later touched different genres and worked in RAI TV, directing some successful TV-series. He died of cancer in Rome, at 68. He was married to actress Lorella De Luca.
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Puzzle
1974
The Bloodstained Butterfly
1971
Quella piccola differenza
1969
Alive or Preferably Dead
1969
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
1966
The Return of Ringo
1965
A Pistol for Ringo
1965
A Pistol for Ringo
1965
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
Hercules in the Haunted World
1961
Hercules in the Haunted World
1961
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
1960