Roberto Mauri

Roberto Mauri
Mauri in 1953
Born	Giuseppe Tagliavia (1924-02-08)8 February 1924 Castelvetrano, Italy
Died	18 February 2018(2018-02-18) (aged 94) Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director, screenwriter

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.^[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] He died in Rome, Italy on 18 February 2018, at the age of 94.^[3]

Selected filmography

Actor

• Apparition (1943)
• The Devil's Gondola (1946)
• The Opium Den (1947)
• They Were Three Hundred (1952)
• Francis the Smuggler (1953)
• La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953)

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)^[4]
• Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare (1974)

References

1. 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. "Roberto Mauri". Les Gens du Cinema. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
4. "Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015.

External links

• Roberto Mauri at IMDb