Roberto Mauri

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Roberto Mauri
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Mauri in 1953
Born
Giuseppe Tagliavia

1924
Occupation Film director

Roberto Mauri (born 1924) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.

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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]

Selected filmography

Actor
Director and screenwriter

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN   8884401712.
  2. Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN   978-8804572770.
  3. "Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015.