Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone

Born: January 3, 1929
Died: April 30, 1989
in Rome, Italy
Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His movies include The Colossus of Rhodes, the Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Once Upon a Time in the West; Duck, You Sucker!; and Once Upon a Time in America.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergio Leone,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for Sergio Leone...

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Title: Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 13, 2022
Type: Movie
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.
bee
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Title: Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: Movie
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.
bee
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
Title: Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 29, 2020
Type: Movie
With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly archaic, brooding and almost reactionary virility. But who is he really? Often hired to play marginalised Native American or Mexican characters before he was typecast as the image of a lone killer, Bronson was a major figure in the popular cinema of the 1960s and 70s and his stony-faced, physical acting and career are worthy of a second look.
bee
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Title: Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 16, 2018
Type: Movie
The destiny of Sergio Leone from his poor childhood in a neighborhood under fascism in Rome until his last film in America. This guided the filmmaker's personal life and career to create his epic antiheroes and spaghetti westerns.
bee
Sad Hill Unearthed
Title: Sad Hill Unearthed
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.
bee
Spanish Western
Title: Spanish Western
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 4, 2015
Type: Movie
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote American Far West.
bee
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Title: Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Character: Self
Released: October 19, 2014
Type: Movie
bee
Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
Title: Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 24, 2014
Type: Movie
The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.
bee
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Title: Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Character: Self
Released: April 27, 2013
Type: Movie
With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with people with whom he has worked, as well as comments from Clint Eastwood himself.
bee
Vivaldi, the Red Priest
Title: Vivaldi, the Red Priest
Character: And with
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: Movie
The life of Antonio Vivaldi, called "the red priest", his relationship with the world and the Church, his spiritual battles, his love for a woman.
bee
The Spaghetti West
Title: The Spaghetti West
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
bee
Title: Leçon de Cinéma
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2004
Type: TV
bee
Something to Do with Death
Title: Something to Do with Death
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Third 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 The Wages of Sin.)
bee
The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Character: Self (archive footage)
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
An Opera of Violence
Title: An Opera of Violence
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Title: Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 8, 2001
Type: Movie
A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."
bee
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Title: Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
bee
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Title: Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
bee
Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
bee
An Almost Perfect Affair
Title: An Almost Perfect Affair
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1979
Type: Movie
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.
bee
Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
bee
Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
bee
Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
bee
Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
bee
Title: Cadet Rousselle
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 1971
Type: TV
bee
Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
bee
For a Few Dollars More
Title: For a Few Dollars More
Character: Whistling Bounty Hunter (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
bee
They Stole a Tram
Title: They Stole a Tram
Character: Presentatore del concorso
Released: December 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Cesare Mancini is a tram driver who lives in Bologna. One day he accidentally hits a woman on a bicycle, the accident costs Cesare the relegation to a ticket seller.
bee
Milano miliardaria
Title: Milano miliardaria
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1951
Type: Movie
The Milanese Luigi Pizzigoni, photographer, and the Neapolitan barber Peppino Avallone, resident in Milan, are opponents in the sports field. The first is a proud Inter supporter, while the second is from Napoli.
bee
Il folle di Marechiaro
Title: Il folle di Marechiaro
Character: Soldato statunitense
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The film was originally called "The fires of San Martino". Left unfinished, it was finished in 1950 with the addition of some sequences.
bee
Bicycle Thieves
Title: Bicycle Thieves
Character: A Seminary Student (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
bee
La bocca sulla strada
Title: La bocca sulla strada
Character: Un bambino
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie