Tonino Delli Colli

Tonino Delli Colli

Born: November 20, 1922
Died: August 16, 2005
in Rome, Italy
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.

 

Movies for Tonino Delli Colli...

Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
Title: Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers of the Arte della Luce and of photography in movement.
bee
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Title: Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary about Sergio Leone
bee
An Opera of Violence
Title: An Opera of Violence
Character: Self - DOP
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Followed by The Wages of Sin.)
bee
The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Character: Self - DOP
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Preceded by An Opera of Violence; followed by Something to Do With Death.)
bee
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Title: Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Character: Self - DOP
Released: September 22, 2001
Type: Movie
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics who reconstruct every aspect of his creative activity.
bee
Intervista
Title: Intervista
Character: Tonino Delli Colli (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
bee
La rosa dei nomi
Title: La rosa dei nomi
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
bee
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Title: The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 1986
Type: Movie
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.
bee
I'm Photogenic
Title: I'm Photogenic
Character: Director of Photography (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.