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Tonino Delli Colli
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer. Cousin of Franco Delli Colli, Antonio (Tonino) Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America), Roman Polanski (Death and the Maiden and Bitter Moon), Louis Malle (Lacombe, Lucien), Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose), and Federico Fellini, whose last three films he photographed. His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976). His last film was Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he won his fourth David di Donatello for Best Cinematography. In 2005 he was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' International Achievement Award. In August of the same year, he died at home in Rome. Tonino Delli Colli died from a heart attack in 2005 at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy. In 2005, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Bitter Moon
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Life Is Beautiful
Director of Photography
Once Upon a Time in America
Director of Photography
Once Upon a Time in the West
Director of Photography
The Name of the Rose
Director of Photography
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
Director of Photography
Spirits of the Dead
Director of Photography
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
When Money Buys Trouble
From Brooklyn to the world, a chain of films where transactions turn tender, then treacherous.
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When the Sequel Outshines the Original
From gritty crime epics to mind-bending sci-fi, these sequels didn't just continue stories, they redefined them. Here's a chain of films that prove the second (...
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Life Is Beautiful
1997
Death and the Maiden
1994
Bitter Moon
1992
The Name of the Rose
1986
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
1970
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Spirits of the Dead
1968
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
1965
The Swordsman of Siena
1962