Roberto Mauri
Italian actor, director and screenwriter (1924–2018)
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Roberto Mauri (8 February 1924 – 18 February 2018) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.
Born
8 February 1924
Giuseppe Tagliavia
8 February 1924
Castelvetrano, Italy
Died18 February 2018 (aged 94)
Rome, Italy
OccupationsActor, film director, screenwriter
Roberto Mauri | |
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Mauri in 1953 | |
| Born | Giuseppe Tagliavia 8 February 1924 Castelvetrano, Italy |
| Died | 18 February 2018 (aged 94) Rome, Italy |
| Occupations | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
Life and career
Born Giuseppe Tagliavia in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Mauri began his career as a film actor in low-budget films, occasionally even playing main roles.[1] He debuted as a director co-directing with Andrea Bianchi the crime film La legge del mitra, in which he was also an actor.[1] Mainly active between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Mauri specialized in the Spaghetti Western genre, in which he was sometimes credited as Robert Johnson.[1][2] He died in Rome, Italy on 18 February 2018, at the age of 94.[3]
Selected filmography
- Actor
- Apparition (1943)
- The Devil's Gondola (1946)
- The Opium Den (1947)
- They Were Three Hundred (1952)
- Francis the Smuggler (1953)
- La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953)
- Director and screenwriter
- Slaughter of the Vampires (1962)
- Three Swords for Rome (1964)
- The Invincible Brothers Maciste (1964)
- Night of Violence (1965)
- Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
- Kong Island (1968)
- Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
- Wanted Sabata (1970)
- He Was Called Holy Ghost (1971)
- Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman (1971)[4]
- Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare (1974)
