Fernando Di Leo Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Fernando Di Leo
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

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PERSONAL DATA OF FERNANDO DI LEO

Born in: S. FERDINANDO DI PUGLIA, Foggia (Italy)
Born on: 11/01/1932
He dies at: Rome Italy)
He dies on: 01/12/2003

BIOGRAPHY OF FERNANDO DI LEO

Writer, screenwriter and director. At nineteen he won the Murano cup with the three-act drama “Light of your body is the eye” and later wrote a series of books of poems and short stories and some novels. Graduated from the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome, in 1963 he made his debut behind the camera directing an episode of “The heroes of yesterday, today and tomorrow” with Enzo Dell’Aquila. His theatrical activity is also intense with the adaptation of numerous classics, the realization of the comedies “Ulisseide” and “Western Simphony” and the writing together with Umberto Eco, Ennio Flaiano, Luigi Malerba and Ercole Patti of “Can Can degli italiani”, for the cabaret. In the mid-1960s he was among the fathers of the ‘spaghetti western’ genre – although his name often does not appear in the credits, as in the case of “For a Fistful of Dollars”, 1964, and “For a Few Dollars More” , 1965. Together with Sergio Leone, Duccio Tessari, Sergio Corbucci and Lucio Fulci he writes dozens of films. The first feature film he directed was from 1967, “Red Roses for the Führer” and later, especially during the 70s, he made a series of films that from time to time demystify the various genres from war, spy films, to comedy, in the same vein as the ‘spaghetti western’. With “Amarsi male” he faces a personal reflection on sex after ’68. With the trilogy “Milano calibro 9”, “La mala ordina” and “Il boss”, he gives life to the low-cost noir genre, a precursor of the Italian detective story, drawing inspiration from the novels of Giorgio Scerbanenco. His films from this period will greatly influence postmodern directors. His “The masters of the city” so impressed a young clerk of an American video store, Quentin Tarantino, who was struck by it and still today considers him a master of cinema noir. During the 1980s his business thinned out and after making “Killers vs. Killers” (1985) he definitively retired to private life, devoting himself exclusively to writing.