Sergio Leone

Leone in 1975

Sergio Leone (3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian movie director. He is well known for his Spaghetti Western films; particularly his Dollars trilogy (also known as The Man with No Name trilogy) starring American actor, Clint Eastwood.

Leone was born in Rome and died there of a heart attack.

Movies directed

The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) aka Ultimi giorni di Pompei (Italy)
Il Colosso di Rodi (1961) aka The Colossus of Rhodes (USA)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) aka Per un pugno di dollari (Italy)
For a Few Dollars More (1965) aka Per qualche dollaro in piu (Italy)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) aka Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Italy)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) aka C'era una volta il West (Italy)
A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) aka Giù la testa (Italy)
My Name Is Nobody (1973) aka Il mio nome è Nessuno (Italy) aka Lonesome Gun (USA)
Un genio, due compari, un pollo (1975) aka A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (USA)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) aka C'era una volta in America (Italy)

Clint Eastwood in his iconic role as "the Man with No Name" in Leone's For a Few Dollars More, the second part of the Dollars Trilogy
Leone and Enzo Santaniello on the set of Once Upon a Time in the West
Leone and artist Vincenzo Romano Salvia in Rome, 1971
Sergio Leone, Italian film director.
Grabstätte Sergio Leone in Pratica al Mare
The Lion (Leone's Gravesite)