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Tonino Valerii

Highest Rated: 100% My Name Is Nobody (1973)

Lowest Rated: 100% My Name Is Nobody (1973)

Birthday: May 20, 1934

Birthplace: Teramo, Abruzzi, Italy

Trained at Centro Sperimentale, Tonino Valerii entered films as Raffaello Matarazzo's assistant on "I Terribili sette." He adopted the pseudonym Robert Bohr for his script contributions to the Christopher Lee and Barbara Steele horrors "Crypt of the Vampire" and "Long Hair of Death" before becoming Sergio Leone's assistant on the Clint Eastwood classics "A Fistful of Dollars" and "For a Few Dollars More." Now firmly identified with the Spaghetti Western, Valerii made his directorial debut in 1966 with the bounty hunting tale "A Taste for Killing." However, having directed Lee Van Cleef as an aging gunfighter in "Gunlaw" and chronicled an assassination attempt on President Garfield in "Texas," Valerii focused on sexual identity in the psychological drama "A Girl Named Jules," in which he also acted. Changing tack again, he tried his hand at giallo with "My Dear Killer." But he returned to the Western by teaming with James Coburn in "A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die" and Henry Fonda in "My Name Is Nobody," which was based on an idea by Sergio Leone, who directed the odd scene and also executive produced. Always more of an imitator than an innovator, Valerii ventured into the crime genre with "Go Gorilla Go," the actioner with "Sahara Cross" and the erotic drama with "Unscrupulous." But, besides the Mafia sagas "Sicilian Connection" and "Brothers in Blood," he mostly worked in television before returning to features in 1997 with "Un Bel di' vedremo" and "Vacation in Hell."

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Highest rated movies

100% 83% My Name Is Nobody
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My Dear Killer
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The Sahara Cross
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Taste for Killing
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The Hired Gun
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Unscrupulous
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80% Day of Anger
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58% Mio caro assassino (My Dear Killer)
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Andres and Me
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40% Terror in the Crypt
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Andres and Me Father (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brothers in Blood Director - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unscrupulous Director - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sahara Cross Director,
Screenwriter
- 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hired Gun Director - 1975
No Score Yet 60% Massacre at Fort Holman Director,
Screenwriter
- 1974
100% 83% My Name Is Nobody Director - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Dear Killer Writer - 1972
No Score Yet 58% Mio caro assassino (My Dear Killer) Director - 1972
No Score Yet 43% The Price of Power Director - 1969
No Score Yet 80% Day of Anger Director,
Writer
- 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Taste for Killing Director - 1966
No Score Yet 36% The Long Hair of Death Screenwriter - 1964
No Score Yet 40% Terror in the Crypt Screenwriter - 1964