Writer
Duccio Tessari
100 years · Genoa, Italy · 49 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 49
Italian Kings Of B
2003 · Self
Beyond Justice
1992 · Director
On Mometu
In camera mia
1992 · Verso Sera
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
1990 · Screenplay, Director
Please, Let the Flowers Live
1986 · Director
Tex and the Lord of the Deep
1985 · Screenplay, Director
Un centesimo di secondo
1981 · Director, Screenplay
The Fifth Commandment
1978 · Director, Writer
La madama
1976 · Screenplay, Director
Safari Express
1976 · Director
On Tubi TV
Zorro
1975 · Director
On Plex
Puzzle
1974 · Director, Screenplay
On Philo
Three Tough Guys
1974 · Director
Tony Arzenta
1973 · Director
On Tubi TV
The Heroes
1973 · Director
Winged Devils
1972 · Director, Screenplay
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971 · Director
On Philo
The Bloodstained Butterfly
1971 · Writer, Director
Death Occurred Last Night
1970 · Director, Screenplay
On Kanopy
Quella piccola differenza
1969 · Director, Screenplay
Alive or Preferably Dead
1969 · Screenplay, Director
On Plex
The Bastard
1968 · Director, Writer
Better a Widow
1968 · Actor, Director
A Train for Durango
1968 · Screenplay