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Filmmaker · Italy

Sergio Leone

Died in 1989

Sergio Leone was born in Rome in 1929, the son of the silent-film director Roberto Roberti and the actress Bice Waleran. He worked as an assistant on many Italian films and on major American productions shot at Cinecittà, then in 1959 completed a film whose director, Mario Bonnard, had fallen ill, before making his own films. For his first western, he took the pseudonym Bob Robertson. He was preparing a film about the siege of Leningrad when he died in Rome in 1989.

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