FILM DIRECTOR

Sergio Leone

1929 - 1989

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Sergio Leone ( lee-OH-nee; Italian: [ˈsɛrdʒo leˈoːne]; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His films include the Dollars Trilogy of Westerns featuring Clint Eastwood: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); and the Once Upon a Time films: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Duck, You Sucker! Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergio Leone is the 22nd most popular film director (down from 20th in 2019), the 288th most popular biography from Italy (down from 239th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Film Director.

Sergio Leone is most famous for his spaghetti westerns. He is known for directing the films A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Once Upon a Time in America.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Sergio Leone ranks 22 out of 2,041. Before him are Leni Riefenstahl, Ridley Scott, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, and Andrei Tarkovsky. After him are Francis Ford Coppola, François Truffaut, Cecil B. DeMille, Miloš Forman, George Lucas, and Jean-Luc Godard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Sergio Leone ranks 14. Before him are Milan Kundera, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bud Spencer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, and Imre Kertész. After him are Ed Asner, Hassan II of Morocco, Christopher Plummer, Jacques Brel, Peter Higgs, and Yayoi Kusama. Among people deceased in 1989, Sergio Leone ranks 11. Before him are Ruhollah Khomeini, Herbert von Karajan, Samuel Beckett, Konrad Lorenz, Ted Bundy, and Georges Simenon. After him are Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Andrei Sakharov, George Beadle, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Elena Ceaușescu, and János Kádár.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sergio Leone ranks 288 out of 5,161. Before him are Vitus (290), Pietro Perugino (1446), Cosimo de' Medici (1389), Pope Eugene I (600), Pope Cornelius (200), and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710). After him are Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892), Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519), Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916), Pope Sergius IV (970), Pope Honorius I (585), and Pope Sixtus III (390).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Sergio Leone ranks 5. Before him are Federico Fellini (1920), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), and Luchino Visconti (1906). After him are Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Tinto Brass (1933), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), and Dario Argento (1940).

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