Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in San Ferdinando di Puglia. After briefly working in Rome's film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, di Leo made his debut as a director as part of the omnibus comedy "Gli eroi di ieri, oggi, domani" with his episode titled "Un posto in paradiso" (transl. "A Place in Heaven"). Following this Di Leo wrote several scripts for Westerns, often uncredited. This included work on "A Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More". Some of his Westerns had uncredited literary sources, such as "Days of Vengeance" which is loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo". Di Leo was a fan of film noir and wanted to make an Italian version of these films. Among his first efforts was the script for Mino Guerrini's "Date for a Murder" based on Franco Enna's novel "Tempo di massacro", written in 1955. In Di Leo's version, the setting is moved to a contemporary Rome and has elements of contemporary spy films. Di Leo worked with Guerrini again on the film "Gangsters '70" which did not do well at the box office. Di Leo began directing more of his own films at the time including the war film "Red Roses for the Fuhrer" and a few erotic films: "A Woman on Fire", "A Wrong Way to Love" and "Seduction". From 1969 to 1976, di Leo was able to produce many of his own works with his production company Duania cineproduzioni 70. He followed this with a return to noir with "Naked Violence", a film adapting a novel by Giorgio Scerbanenco, a writer who Di Leo would adapt for several future film productions. Di Leo would make a giallo film with "Slaughter Hotel" starring Klaus Kinski and Margaret Lee. Following this Di Leo worked on "Caliber 9" and "The Italian Connection" which were both inspired by the writing of Scerbanenco. He followed up this film "Il Boss", a film which got Di Leo in trouble with politicians and authorities due to the film's display of connections between the mafia and Italy's major party Democrazia Cristiana. Di Leo followed this up with "Shoot First, Die Later" in 1974. Di Leo worked through the latter half of the 1970s directing "Mister Scarface", "Kidnap Syndicate", and "Nick the Sting". He also wrote scripts for other directors such as Romolo Guerrieri's "Young, Violent, Dangerous", and Ruggero Deodato's "Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man". Di Leo's last film produced by his company Duania cineproduzioni 70 was "Rulers of the City" in 1976. He continued with a few more films after with the film noir "Blood and Diamonds", the erotic drama "To Be Twenty" - both in 1978, and "Madness" in 1980. Di Leo worked in television in the 1980s, starting with the television series "L'assassino ha le ore contate", which involved six one-hour-long made-for-TV films produced by RAI Uno which as of 2013 are unreleased. Di Leo also made "The Violent Breed" and his last film "Killer vs. Killers" in the mid-1980s. "Killer vs. Killers" wasn't released theatrically in Italy and only surfaced 20 years later on DVD. Di Leo died in December 2003.

Фільмографія

• 2021A Bunch of Bastards — Original Film Writer
• 1986Perros de la noche
• 1985Killer vs Killers — Director, Screenplay, Writer
• 1984The Violent Breed — Director, Screenplay
• 1982Poor Love — Director
• 1980Madness — Director, Screenplay
• 1979Alejandra, mon amour
• 1978Blood and Diamonds — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1978To Be Twenty — Man Giving Directions, Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1976Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man — Story, Screenplay
• 1976Nick the Sting — Film Director in Front of Police Station (uncredited)
• 1976Rulers of the City — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1976Young, Violent, Dangerous — Story, Screenplay
• 1975Kidnap Syndicate — Director, Screenplay
• 1975Loaded Guns — Director, Screenplay
• 1974Italian Sex — giornalista TV (uncredited), Director
• 1974Shoot First, Die Later — Screenplay, Director
• 1973Seduction — Writer, Director
• 1973The Boss — Cocchi's Enforcer (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1972Caliber 9 — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1972The Italian Connection — Director, Dialogue, Story, Screenplay
• 1971Slaughter Hotel — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1969A Woman on Fire — Director, Writer
• 1969Loving Badly — Man at House of Prostitution, Director, Writer
• 1969Naked Violence — Director, Screenplay
• 1968Beyond the Law — Screenplay
• 1968Gangsters '70 — Writer
• 1968God Made Them... I Kill Them — Screenplay
• 1968Red Roses for the Fuhrer — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1968Tequila Joe — Story, Screenplay
• 1968The Ruthless Four — Writer
• 1967Date for a Murder — Screenplay
• 1967Death Rides Along — Screenplay
• 1967Hate for Hate — Writer
• 1967La lunga sfida — Writer
• 1967Long Days of Vengeance — Screenplay
• 1967Pecos Cleans Up — Screenplay
• 1967Poker with Pistols — Writer
• 1967Sugar Colt — Screenplay
• 1967Up the MacGregors — Screenplay, Story
• 1967Wanted — Screenplay
• 1966Johnny Yuma — Screenplay
• 1966Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang — Story, Screenplay
• 1966Massacre Time — Screenplay, Story
• 1966Navajo Joe — Screenplay
• 1966Seven Guns for the MacGregors — Screenplay
• 1966Джанґо — Additional Writing
• 1965The Return of Ringo — Fuentes Henchman, Screenplay, Assistant Director
• 1965На декілька доларів більше — Cigar Smoking Card Player (uncredited), Additional Writing, Assistant Director
• 1964За жменю доларів — Screenplay

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (6)

• 2013I Tarantiniani — Self
• 2008Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 — Self
• 2004Caliber 9: Documentary — Self
• 2004Fernando di Leo: La morale del genere — Self
• 2004The Origin of the Mala — Himself
• 2001Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema — Self - Filmmaker