Roberto Mauri | |
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Born | Giuseppe Tagliavia 1924 Castelvetrano, Italy |
Occupation | Film director |
Roberto Mauri (born 1924) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
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]
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