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Roberto Mauri

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Roberto Mauri
Mauri in 1953
Born
Giuseppe Tagliavia

1924
OccupationFilm director

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

Life and career

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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

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Actor
Director and screenwriter

References

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  1. ^ a b c 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.
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