Roberto Mauri

{{Short description|Italian actor, director and screenwriter (1924–2018)}}

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| name = Roberto Mauri

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| birth_name = Giuseppe Tagliavia

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1924|02|08}}

| birth_place = Castelvetrano, Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2018|02|18|1924|02|08}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

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| occupation = Actor, film director, screenwriter

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Roberto Mauri (8 February 1924 – 18 February 2018) was an Italian actor, film director and 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.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} He debuted as a director co-directing with Andrea Bianchi the crime film La legge del mitra, in which he was also an actor.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} 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.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}} He died in Rome, Italy on 18 February 2018, at the age of 94.{{cite web |title=Roberto Mauri |url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/entree.php |website=Les Gens du Cinema |access-date=15 November 2024}}

== Selected filmography ==

;Actor

;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){{cite web|title=Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/142479/La-Spada-Normanna/details|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120052731/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/142479/La-Spada-Normanna/details|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2015|archive-date=2015-11-20}}
Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare (1974)

References

External links

{{IMDb name|id =0561089}}

Category:1924 births

Category:2018 deaths

Category:20th-century Italian male actors

Category:Italian film directors

Category:Italian male film actors

Category:Italian screenwriters

Category:Italian male screenwriters

Category:People from Castelvetrano