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Duccio Tessari
Writer 1926 - 1994

Duccio Tessari

Genoa, Italy

Duccio Tessari was an Italian director, screenwriter and occasionally actor, considered one of the fathers of spaghetti westerns. Born in Genoa, Tessari started in the fifties as documentarist and as screenwriter of Peplum films. In 1964 he co-wrote Sergio Leone's A Fistful of... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

19 titles
L'uomo senza memoria

L'uomo senza memoria

Duccio Tessari 1974 1h 32m 6.0

It was directed by Duccio Tessari, his previous giallo was The Bloodstained Butterfly. It stars Luc Merenda, Anita Strindberg, Senta Berger, Umberto Orsini, Bruno Corazzari, Manfred Freyberger and Rosario Borelli.

Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate

Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate

Duccio Tessari 1971 1h 39m 6.0

A girl is murdered in a park. The man is tried and convicted for the crime but the killings suddenly continue.

La morte risale a ieri sera

La morte risale a ieri sera

Duccio Tessari 1970 1h 33m 7.0

A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, mentally retarded woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the killers before the grieving father does

Vivi o preferibilmente morti

Vivi o preferibilmente morti

Duccio Tessari 1969 1h 37m 4.0

Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.

I bastardi

I bastardi

Duccio Tessari 1968 1h 42m

A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals his jewels and mutilates his shooting hand.

7 pistole per i MacGregor

7 pistole per i MacGregor

Franco Giraldi 1966 1h 47m

Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.

Una pistola per Ringo

Una pistola per Ringo

Duccio Tessari 1965 1h 38m 7.0

Giuliano Gemma stars as a cool, cocky mercenary enlisted by a sheriff to infiltrate a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ennio Morricone provided the score to this early spaghetti western hit.

Il ritorno di Ringo

Il ritorno di Ringo

Duccio Tessari 1965 1h 35m 6.0

Dopo aver combattuto con l'esercito unionista durante la Guerra di Secessione, Ringo torna a casa e scopre che la città è in mano ai banditi che, nel frattempo, gli hanno anche rapito moglie e figlia.

Per un pugno di dollari

Per un pugno di dollari

Sergio Leone 1964 1h 39m 7.8

A Fistful of Dollars is the 1964 Sergio Leone film starring Clint Eastwood and the first Spaghetti Western to take place in the United States. The film was the first in a trilogy that referenced Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Yojimbo’ and became an international success and founded the Spaghetti Western genre.

Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Piero Pierotti, Hugo Fregonese 1962 1h 35m 1.0

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Ercole al centro della terra

Ercole al centro della terra

Mario Bava 1962 1h 26m 7.3

Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades.

Arrivano i titani

Arrivano i titani

Duccio Tessari 1962 1h 51m

An evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.

Romolo e Remo

Romolo e Remo

Sergio Corbucci 1961 1h 48m

Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.

Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan

Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan

Riccardo Freda 1961 1h 32m

Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.

Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide

Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide

Vittorio Cottafavi 1961 1h 41m 7.0

King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature.

Messalina Venere imperatrice

Messalina Venere imperatrice

Vittorio Cottafavi 1960 1h 36m

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.

La vendetta di Ercole

La vendetta di Ercole

Vittorio Cottafavi 1960 1h 27m 7.0

A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.

La regina delle Amazzoni

La regina delle Amazzoni

Vittorio Sala 1960 1h 38m 4.0

Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

Mario Bonnard 1959 1h 43m 7.0

Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.

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