Fernando Di Leo (January 11, 1932 - December 1, 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia. Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. San Ferdinando di Puglia is a town and Comune in the Province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43. His films influenced many popular contemporary directors, such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo. Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an Academy Award - BAFTA Award - and Palme d'Or -winning Emmy - and John Woo Yu-Sen (born May 1, 1946) is an internationally and critically acclaimed Chinese Film director and producer. [1]
Di Leo started his career mostly writing scripts for spaghetti westerns. Spaghetti Western, also known in some countries in mainland Europe as the Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western He worked on the script for Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars, 1964) and later as assistant director and assistant to Sergio Leone in Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More, 1965). A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un Pugno di Dollari in Italy and officially on-screen in the U Sergio Leone ( January 3, 1929 &ndash April 30, 1989) was an Italian Film director. For a Few Dollars More ( Per Qualche Dollaro in Più) is a 1965 Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring [2] Later, he wrote scripts for such westerns as Navajo Joe (1966) and Johnny Yuma (1967). Navajo Joe is a 1966 Italian / Spanish Spaghetti Western, directed by Sergio Corbucci. Johnny Yuma (1967 is a Spaghetti western starring Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, and Lawrence Dobkin. Di Leo is now best remembered for his poliziotteschi films, especially the Milieu Trilogy, which he both wrote and directed. Poliziotteschi is a sub-genre of crime and Action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and became popular in the 1970s The trilogy contains Milano calibro 9 (1972), La mala ordina (Manhunt, 1972) and Il boss (The Boss, 1973). Milano calibro 9 is a Poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian Crime film specialist Fernando