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Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985.[1]

Fernando Di Leo
Born	(1932-01-11)11 January 1932 San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy
Died	2 December 2003(2003-12-02) (aged 71) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Biography

Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in San Ferdinando di Puglia.[1] After briefly working in a Rome's film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, di Leo made his debut as a director as part of the omnibus comedy Gli eroi di ieri, oggi, domani with his episode titled Un posto in paradiso (transl. A Place in Heaven).[2] Following this Di Leo wrote several scripts for Westerns, often uncredited.[2] This included work on A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More.[2] Some of his Westerns had uncredited literary sources, such as Days of Vengeance which as loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.[2]

Di Leo was a fan of film noir and wanted to make an Italian version of these films.[2] Among his first efforts was the script for Mino Guerrini's Date for a Murder based on Franco Enna's novel Tempo di massacro written in 1955.[2] In Di Leo's version, the setting is moved to a contemporary Rome and has elements of contemporary spy films.[2] Di Leo worked with Guerrini again on the film Gangsters '70 which did not do well in the box office.[2] Di Leo began directing more of his own films at the time including the war film Red Roses for the Fuhrer and a few erotic films: A Woman on Fire, A Wrong Way to Love and Seduction.[2] From 1969 to 1976, di Leo was able to produce many of his own works with his production company Duania cineproduzioni 70.[1] He followed this with a return to noir with Naked Violence, a film adapting a novel by Giorgio Scerbanenco, a writer who Di Leo would adapt for several future film productions.[2]

Di Leo would make a giallo film with Slaughter Hotel starring Klaus Kinski and Margaret Lee.[2] Following this Di Leo worked on Caliber 9 and The Italian Connection which were both inspired by the writing of Scerbanenco.[2] He followed up this film Il Boss, a film which got Di Leo in trouble with politicians and authorities due to the films display connections between the mafia and the Italy's major party Democrazia Cristiana.[2] Di Leo followed this up with Shoot First, Die Later in 1974.[2] Di Leo worked through the latter half of the 1970's directing Mister Scarface, Kidnap Syndicate, and Nick the Sting.[3] He also wrote scripts for other directors such as Romolo Guerrieri's Young, Violent, Dangerous and Ruggero Deodato's Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man.[3] Di Leo's last film produced by his company Duania cineproduzioni 70 was Rulers of the City in 1976.[3] He continued with a few more films after with the film noir Blood and Diamonds, the erotic drama To Be Twenty - both in 1978, and Madness in 1980.[3]

Di Leo worked in television in the 1980's, starting with the television series L'assassino ha le ore contate, which involved six one-hour long made-for-TV films produced by RAI Uno which as of 2013 are unreleased.[3] Di Leo also made The Violent Breed and his last film Killer vs. Killers towards the mid-1980's.[3] Killer vs. Killers wasn't released theatrically in Italy and only surfaced 20 years later on DVD.[4]

Di Leo died in December 2003.[4]

Select filmography

Title	Year	Credited as				Notes	Ref(s)
		Director	Screenwriter	Story author	Other
Gli eroi di ieri, oggi, domani	1963	Yes	Yes				[5][6]
A Fistful of Dollars	1964		Yes			Uncredited.	[7]
The Return of Ringo	1965		Yes	Yes	Yes	Assistant director	[8][9][10]
For a Few Dollars More			Yes	Yes	Yes	Uncredited as screenwriter. Also 2nd assistant director	[11]
Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang	1966		Yes	Yes			[12][13]
Massacre Time			Yes	Yes			[14][15]
Seven Guns for the MacGregors			Yes				[16][17]
Johnny Yuma			Yes				[18][19]
Navajo Joe			Yes				[20][21]
Up the MacGregors!	1967		Yes	Yes			[22][23]
Long Days of Vengeance			Yes				[24][25]
The Ruthless Four	1968		Yes	Yes			[26][27][28]
Beyond the Law			Yes				[29]
Gangsters '70			Yes	Yes			[30]
Naked Violence	1969	Yes	Yes				[31]
Slaughter Hotel	1971	Yes	Yes				[2]
Caliber 9	1972	Yes	Yes				[32]
Bloody Friday			Yes	Yes		Uncredited	[33][34]
The Italian Connection		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also dialogue	[35]
Il Boss	1973	Yes	Yes				[36]
Shoot First, Die Later	1974	Yes	Yes				[37]
Kidnap Syndicate	1975	Yes	Yes				[38]
Loaded Guns		Yes	Yes				[39]
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man	1976		Yes	Yes			[40]
Nick the Sting		Yes					[40]
Mister Scarface		Yes	Yes	Yes			[41][42]
Young, Violent, Dangerous			Yes	Yes			[43]
Blood and Diamonds	1978	Yes	Yes	Yes			[44]
Madness	1980	Yes	Yes				[45]

References

Bibliography

External links

• Official website
• Fernando Di Leo at IMDb

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