Sergio LeoneFilmography

Born:: January 23, 1921 in Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Scion of movie actress Francesca Bertini and pioneering Italian director Vincenzo Leone (aka Roberto Roberti), Sergio Leone merged his movie-made dreams of America with his own brand of epic myth-making to create a quartet of 1960s Westerns so exceptional that they earned their own generic...Read More

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Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
Troppo Forte

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Stella Hall, Alberto Sordi, John Steiner, Mario Brega

Synopsis: The Italian comic Carlo Verdone stars in (and directs and co-authors) this conventional, and unevenly humorous look at Oscar (Verdone), the neighborhood wannabe jock and biker who tries to land a part in a movie. After he is rejected, Oscar exacts revenge by causing a car crash that the producer's Read More

1/30/86
Once Upon a Time in America

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their Read More

1984
Bianco, Rosso E Verdone

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Elena Fabrizi, Milena Vukotic

Synopsis: The stage comedian Carlo Verdone directed and stars as the three main characters -- Furio, Mimmo, and Pasquale -- in this classic Italian comedy. All three men are driving back to their hometowns to vote on election day, and each has a different story and a different though easily recognizable Read More

2/20/81
Un Sacco Bello

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Veronica Miriel, Mario Brega, Renato Scarpa

Synopsis: The format of this tripartite comedy by Carlo Verdone and also starring the Italian comic in all three leads worked so well that he did it again in 1981 with Bianco, Rosso, E Verdone. Like the second film, these three stories also take place on one day, August 15th, when Romans leave town en Read More

1979
Il Gatto

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato, Michel Galabru, Dalila di Lazzaro

Synopsis: Amedeo and Ofelia (Ugo Tognazzi and Mariangela Melato) own an old, fairly unprofitable apartment house in Rome. Someone has offered to buy the property for redevelopment for a lot of money, but only if the building has no tenants. Since six of its apartments are currently in use, Amedio and Ofelia Read More

12/16/77
My Name Is Nobody

Crew: Presented by

Actors: Henry Fonda

Synopsis: Spaghetti-Western star Terence Hill achieved international fame with 1974's My Name Is Nobody. A soldier of fortune, Nobody (Hill) is hired to gun down veteran outlaw Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda). Before long, however, Nobody and Beauregard are bosom companions. When Beauregard announces his Read More

12/21/73
Giù la Testa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Collace, Renato Pontecchi, Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Jean Michel Antoine, Maria Monti, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: Originally titled Giù la Testa, Duck, You Sucker! is a Mexican-revolution yarn, filmed in Italy by spaghetti Western maven Sergio Leone. James Coburn is top-billed as John H. Mallory, an Irish soldier of fortune with a penchant for explosives. Rod Steiger plays Juan Miranda, another mercenary who Read More

10/29/71
Once Upon a Time in the West

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda) Read More

12/21/68
The Seven Revenges

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Ed Fury, hero of many a sword and sandal epic, once more dons tunic for the Italian Seven Revenges. This time, Ed and a cohort find themselves in the service of Genghis Kahn. In order to prove their worth, they must carry out the titular revenges. Hollywood expatriate Elaine Stewart is the Read More

1967
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffré, Rada Rassimov, Mario Brega

Synopsis: In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and Read More

12/23/66
For a Few Dollars More

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Josef Egger, Mara Krup

Synopsis: This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing "Man With No Name." Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal Read More

12/18/65
A Fistful of Dollars

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy, Mario Brega

Synopsis: By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled "spaghetti westerns." Leone approached the genre with great love and humor. Although the plot was admittedly borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), Leone managed to create a work of Read More

9/12/64
Romolo e Remo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas

Synopsis: This unexceptional Duel of the Titans takes place on two different levels at once. The legendary brothers Romulus and Remus go at it to see who will ultimately survive and found the city of Caesars. And the slightly less legendary but still impressive Steve Reeves (Romulus) and Gordon Scott Read More

12/6/61
Il Colosso di Rodi

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado SanMartin, Jorge Rigaud, Angel Aranda

Synopsis: Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort was this colorful sword-and-sandal epic set in ancient Greece. Rory Calhoun stars as Dario, a captain in the Greek army who must travel to the island of Rhodes to destroy the huge bronze statue of Colossus, which hurls molten lead at its attackers. Read More

8/25/61
Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompeii

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey, Barbar Carroll, Anne Marie Baumann, Mimmo Palmara

Synopsis: This was ironically the last film made by director Mario Bonnard, and it follows the pattern of the classic Italian costume dramas about macho or mythic heroes, in this case, a certain Glaucus (Steve Reeves, the glorious Greco-Roman past could not occur without him). Taking the cue from its Read More

11/12/59
The Sign of the Gladiator

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anita Ekberg, Folco Lulli, Jacques Sernas

Synopsis: This sword and sandal epic set in 217 AD follows the exploits of a courageous gladiator who is taken prisoner on behalf of the Queen of Palmyra. To win her confidence, the gladiator pretends to hate his Roman masters, but as soon as she trusts him, he has his soldiers take her prisoner. Because he Read More

1959
Afrodite, Dea Dell'amore

Crew: First Assistant Director

8/29/58