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person_profile-Sergio Sollima

Sergio Sollima Died at age: 94

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Sergio Sollima

Date of Birth:

Apr 17, 1921

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Jul 01, 2015

Biography of

Sergio Sollima

    Sergio Sollima (born April 17, 1921 in Rome) is an Italian former film director and script writer.

    Like many Italian cult directors, Sollima started his career by directing mostly sword and sandal movies that were very popular in the early 1960s. After the genre's popularity quickly died out, Sollima was among the first ones to move to spaghetti westerns. The Big Gundown (starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian) was released in 1966 with big success, despite the fact that it had to compete with Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Sergio Corbucci's Django. Sollima soon filmed two more westerns. Face to Face (Milian and Gian Maria Volonté) was released in 1967 and Run, Man, Run! (Milian) in 1968. Although Sollima directed only three westerns and they never reached the level of popularity as the ones by the other Sergios (Leone and Corbucci), each of them are highly regarded among genre enthusiasts.

    In 1970, Sollima switched genres again and directed the Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas starred Violent City, which was one of the first violent and fast-paced Italian crime films often known as poliziotteschi. Like for all of his westerns, the soundtrack was provided by Ennio Morricone. Sollima's last well-known film is Revolver, a poliziotteschi film starring Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergio Sollima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography of

Sergio Sollima

Found 15 Movies in total

Berlin '39

Screenplay

... 1993

... 1977

... 1976

Revolver

Screenplay

... 1973

... 1972

Violent City

Screenplay

... 1970

... 1968

Face to Face

Screenplay

... 1967

... 1967

... 1966

... 1966

... 1965

... 1962

Shack and puppets

First Assistant Director

... 1954

Foreign Earth

Assistant Director

... 1954