Tonino Valerii Biography

Italian film director

Tonino Valerii (20 May 1934 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian film director, most known for his Spaghetti Westerns. Tonino (Antonio) Valerii started his film career as an *istant director on Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, before moving on to direct by himself. Among his best-known films are Day of Anger (1967) The Price of Power (1969), My Dear Killer (1972), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972) and My Name Is Nobody (1973), starring Henry Fonda and Terence Hill.

In 1970, he directed A Girl Called Jules, which was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.

He died on 13 October 2016 in a clinic in Rome at the age of 82.

Filmography

Films

Other contributions

References

Footnotes

Sources

• Curti, Roberto (2016). Tonino Valerii: The Films. McFarland. ISBN:978-1476626185.
• Curti, Roberto (2017). Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland. ISBN:978-1476628387.
• Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN:978-1461673743. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
• Mues, Ingeborg, ed. (1988). Fischer Film Almanach . 1988 (in German). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. ISBN:359624479X.

External links

• Tonino Valerii at IMDb