Sergio Leone Overview:

Director, Sergio Leone, was born on Jan 3, 1929 in Rome, Italy. As of December 2024, Sergio Leone was 96 years old.

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Sergio Leone: THE ITALIAN WHO INVENTED AMERICA

By Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 1, 2024 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

Sergio Leone: THE ITALIAN WHO INVENTED AMERICA is a 2022 documentary on the great filmmaker, written & directed by Francesco Zippel, and co-produced by the company run by two of Leone's children. I watched the film on the Max streaming channel. This documentary has a number of big names involved... Read full article

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 9, 2018 From The Stop Button

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ends up being about three criminals?of varying type?hunting down some stolen Confederate gold. But that Confederate gold story line takes a break after getting setup in the first ten minutes?for almost an hour of the two and a half hour plus film?so Good, the Bad and t... Read full article

The Best Films of Sergio Leone

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 1, 2014 From 4 Star Films

1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 2. Once Upon a Time in the West 3. A Fistful of Dollars 4. Once Upon a Time in America 5. For A Few Dollars More 6. Duck, You Sucker... Read full article

The Best Films of Sergio Leone

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 1, 2014 From 4 Star Films

1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 2. Once Upon a Time in the West 3. A Fistful of Dollars 4. Once Upon a Time in America 5. For A Few Dollars More 6. Duck, You Sucker... Read full article

Top Films of Sergio Leone by LMdC

By Michael on Apr 30, 2012 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

Often regarded as one of the most succesful Western director, the ambassador of Spaghetti Westerns Sergio Leone made his mark with a unique storytelling approach and superb color cinematography. His revisionists films characterized by some critics, read here Pauline Kael, as violent even fascists, d... Read full article

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Sergio Leone Facts
Composer Ennio Morricone has said that Leone asked him to compose a film's music before the start of principal photography - contrary to normal practice. He would then play the music to the actors during takes to enhance their performance.
His favorite actor from childhood was Henry Fonda, who was offered a role in every one of Leone's early Westerns. After Fonda finally worked with him on Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), he returned the compliment, later citing that film as his favorite role.
His callous behavior towards his collaborators reached a high-water mark during the shooting of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) ("Once Upon a Time in the West"), when bit-part actor Al Mulock committed suicide on the set of the movie. Murlock, who also had appeared as the one-armed bounty hunter in Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), jumped from a hotel on location in Guadix, Spain. Production manager Claudio Mancini was sitting in a room in the hotel with Mickey Knox, an expatriate American who had been hired by Leone as a screenwriter; they both saw Mulock's body pass by their window. Knox recalled in an interview that while Mancini put Mulock in his car to drive him to the hospital, Leone said to Mancini, "Get the costume! We need the costume!" Mulock was wearing the costume he wore in the movie when he made his fatal leap.
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