Tonino Delli Colli

Director Of Photography

About

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Also Known As

Antonio Delli Colli

Birth Place

Italy

Born

November 20, 1923

Died

August 16, 2005

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Versatile cinematographer, equally distinguished for his gritty, urban, black-and-white images ("Accatone" 1961) as for his brilliantly hued color landscapes ("Lacombe, Lucien," 1973). Delli Colli shot Italy's first color film, "Toto a Colori" (1952), and collaborated frequently with directors Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Leone....

Filmography

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Life Is Beautiful (1998)

Director Of Photography

Marianna Ucria (1997)

Director Of Photography

Facciamo Paradiso (1995)

Director Of Photography

Death and the Maiden (1994)

Director Of Photography

La Soif d'or (1993)

Director Of Photography

Bitter Moon (1992)

Director Of Photography

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Seven Beauties (1975) -- (Movie Clip) What Exactly Is Your Game?

Seven Beauties (1975) -- (Movie Clip) The Word Of Pasqualino!

Biography

Versatile cinematographer, equally distinguished for his gritty, urban, black-and-white images ("Accatone" 1961) as for his brilliantly hued color landscapes ("Lacombe, Lucien," 1973). Delli Colli shot Italy's first color film, "Toto a Colori" (1952), and collaborated frequently with directors Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Leone.

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Life Is Beautiful (1998)

Director Of Photography

Marianna Ucria (1997)

Director Of Photography

Facciamo Paradiso (1995)

Director Of Photography

Death and the Maiden (1994)

Director Of Photography

La Soif d'or (1993)

Director Of Photography

Bitter Moon (1992)

Director Of Photography

FX2 - The Deadly Art of Illusion (1991)

Director Of Photography

Una Storia Semplice (1991)

Director Of Photography

Especially on Sunday (1991)

Director Of Photography ("The Blue Dog")

The Voice of the Moon (1990)

Director Of Photography

L' Africana (1990)

Director Of Photography

Stradivari (1989)

Director Of Photography

Federico Fellini's Intervista (1987)

Director Of Photography

The Name of the Rose (1986)

Director Of Photography

Ginger and Fred (1986)

Director Of Photography

Il Futuro e Donna (1984)

Director Of Photography

Once Upon A Time In America (1984)

Director Of Photography

Once Upon a Time in America - Extended Cut (1984)

Director Of Photography

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)

Director Of Photography

Trenchcoat (1983)

Director Of Photography

Till Marriage Do Us Part (1982)

Director Of Photography

Sunday Lovers (1981)

Director Of Photography (Italian Segment)

Fantasma d'Amore (1981)

Director Of Photography

Sono Fotogenico (1980)

Director Of Photography

Caro Papa (1979)

Director Of Photography

Travels With Anita (1978)

Director Of Photography

Blood Feud (1978)

Director Of Photography

Lovers and Other Relatives (1978)

Director Of Photography

Primo Amore (1978)

Director Of Photography

I Nuovi Mostri (1977)

Director Of Photography

Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (1977)

Director Of Photography

Un Taxi mauve (1977)

Director Of Photography

Caro Michele (1976)

Director Of Photography

Anima Persa (1976)

Director Of Photography

Seven Beauties (1975)

Director Of Photography

Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

Director Of Photography

Mio Dio, come sono Caduta in Basso (1974)

Director Of Photography

Bawdy Tales (1973)

Director Of Photography

Deaf Smith And Johnny Ears (1973)

Director Of Photography

Peccato Veniale (1973)

Director Of Photography

Paolo Il Caldo (1973)

Director Of Photography

Pilgrimage (1972)

Un Uomo da Rispettare (1972)

Director Of Photography

The Canterbury Tales (1972)

Director Of Photography

Cometogether (1971)

The Decameron (1971)

Director Of Photography

Homo Eroticus (1971)

Director Of Photography

Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970)

Director of Photography

Spirits of the Dead (1969)

Photographer for "William Wilson"

Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Ghosts--Italian Style (1969)

Director of Photography

Director Of Photography

Accattone! (1968)

Director of Photography

China Is Near (1968)

Director of Photography

The Beautiful Swindlers (1967)

Photographer for "Naples"

The Hawks and the Sparrows (1967)

Director of Photography

A Very Handy Man (1966)

Director of Photography

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

Director of Photography

Mandragola (1966)

Director of Photography

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1966)

Director of Photography

Love in 4 Dimensions (1965)

Photographer for "Love and Life" and "Love and Death"

The New Angels (1965)

Director of Photography

Not on Your Life (1965)

Director of Photography

Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)

Director Of Photography ("La Ricotta")

Swordsman of Siena (1962)

Director of Photography

Mamma Roma (1962)

Director Of Photography

The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)

Director of Photography

Morgan the Pirate (1961)

Director of Photography

World by Night (1961)

Director of Photography

The Thief of Baghdad (1961)

Director of Photography

Primo Amore (1958)

Cinematographer

Femmine tre volte (1957)

Director Of Photography

Donatella (1955)

Director Of Photography

The White Angel (1955)

Cinematographer

Where is Freedom? (1954)

Cinematographer

Sacco di Roma, Il (1953)

Director Of Photography

Black Magic (1949)

Camera Operator

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Life Is Beautiful (1998)

Dp/Cinematographer

FX2 - The Deadly Art of Illusion (1991)

Dp/Cinematographer

The Name of the Rose (1986)

Dp/Cinematographer

Donatella (1955)

Life Events

1943

First feature as director of photography, "Finalmente si"

1952

Shot Italy's first color film, "Toto a Colori"

Videos

Seven Beauties (1975) -- (Movie Clip) What Exactly Is Your Game? In 1930s Italy, Pasqualino, a low-level Sicilian thug, kills a man who disgraced his sister. Pasqualino pleads insanity and manages to escape imprisonment by joining the military, but he decides to go AWOL when things get too heavy. Unfortunately, he finds himself stuck in a concentration camp. Pasqualino vows to do anything in order to survive even if that means seducing an obese, female German camp commandant or ratting out his own pals.

Seven Beauties (1975) -- (Movie Clip) The Word Of Pasqualino! Joining a flashback from Italian WWII POW Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini) to earlier days in Naples, where he castigates one of his seven sisters (Elena Fiore) over her cabaret act and her manager, early in the feature that made Fellini-trained writer-director Lina Wertmüller the first woman ever nominated for the Best Director Academy Award, Seven Beauties, 1975.

Seven Beauties (1975) -- (Movie Clip) That's Okay, German Lady! Still wandering Alpine southern Germany avoiding Nazi patrols, escaped Italian POW Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini, in his Academy Award-nominated role) discovers a household presumably effected by wartime circumstances, no other actors credited, Lina Wertmüller directing from her original screenplay, in Seven Beauties, 1975.

Lacombe, Lucien (1974) -- (Movie Clip) A Rich And Stingy Jew Having casually ingratiated himself with the local Nazi collaborators, farm-boy Pierre Blaise (title character) is introduced by Vichy youth Jean (Stephane Bouy) to the Jewish tailor (Holger Lowenadler) who gets relative safety in exchange for his services, in Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien, 1974.

Lacombe, Lucien (1974) -- (Movie Clip) I Should Have Been An Actor In southwestern France, 1944, conducting regular business with the local Nazi sympathizers, Pierre Blaise (the politically indifferent title character) with Jean-Bernard (Stephane Bouy) faking an injury, tricking a vacationing doctor and his family, in Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien, 1974.

Morgan The Pirate (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Long Live Morgan! More brisk action from Hollywood director Andre De Toth, his hero (Steve Reeves, title character) demonstrating how slaves can take a Spanish galleon, somewhere off Panama, ca. 1670, in the Italian-financed Morgan The Pirate, 1960.

Morgan The Pirate (1960) -- (Movie Clip) The Beast Is English Opening from Hollywood renegades, producer Joseph E. Levine and director Andre De Toth, working in Italy, cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli, brings French Valérie Lagrange (about 18 at the time!) and her attendant Lydia Alfonsi to the slave market in Panama where the main attraction, Steve Reeves, the title character, looks buff, in Morgan The Pirate, 1960.

Morgan The Pirate (1960) -- (Movie Clip) By Order Of His Excellency Broad set-piece by Hollywood veteran director Andre De Toth, working in Rome with Italian financing, as the governor (Ivo Garrani) oversees an execution in Panama, ca. 1670, his daughter (Valérie Lagrange) clearly hoping her former slave (Steve Reeves, title character) will luck out, in producer Joseph E. Levine’s Morgan The Pirate, 1960.

Morgan The Pirate (1960) -- (Movie Clip) I Want These Women We meet Chelo Alonso, highly promoted in the credits, appearing in her second Italian-made feature with leading man Steve Reeves, as barmaid Consuela, beholden apparently to pirate L’Olannais (Armand Mestral), who receives the hero, with his new pirate crew, in time to rescue hostages Valérie Lagrange and Lydia Alfonso, in Morgan The Pirate, 1960.

Ginger And Fred (1986) -- (Movie Clip) Are We In Such Bad Shape? Escaping the inescapably Federico Fellini-esque backstage scene of the low-rent Roman TV nostalgia special, the principals (the director’s wife Giullietta Masina as Amelia, a.k.a. Ginger and Marcello Mastroianni as Pippo, a.k.a. “Fred”) with their old friend Toto (Mignoli), assume their costumes and continue their reacquaintance, in Ginger And Fred, 1986.

Ginger And Fred (1986) -- (Movie Clip) Keep Rome Clean Opening in routine circumstances at a train station in Rome, Giulietta Masina in her last performance directed by her husband, arriving to a modest reception, as Federico Fellini’s authorship emerges, especially in pork-oriented advertising, in the well-received Ginger And Fred, 1986, also starring Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara Scoppa the reporter in the van.

Ginger And Fred (1986) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't See The Resemblance On the first evening in the modest Rome hotel, Amelia (Giulietta Masina, the director’s wife, stage name “Ginger,”) remains in good spirits, awaiting the corny TV special and her still-absent partner “Fred,” Martin Maria Blau the disinterested assistant director, in Federico Fellini’s Ginger And Fred, 1986.

Life Is Beautiful (1998) -- Original Trailer Original trailer for director, co-writer and Academy Award-winning star Roberto Benigni’s tragic comedy of the Holocaust, Life Is Beautiful, 1998.

Ginger And Fred - (Original Trailer) Federico Fellini sends up Italian television in this story of a reunion of celebrity lookalikes played by Marcello Mastroianni and Fellini's wife Giulietta Masina.

Ghosts - Italian Style - (Original Trailer) A husband (Vittorio Gassman) and wife (Sophia Loren) live in a mansion haunted by a romantic rival in the comedy Ghosts - Italian Style (1968).

Morgan The Pirate - (Original Trailer) Steve Reeves flexes his muscles as Morgan The Pirate (1961), the British raider of the 17th Century.

Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The - (U.S. Trailer) Three men seek hidden loot during the Civil War in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), the third film in Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood trilogy.

Swordsman of Siena - (Original Trailer) An adventurer's loyalties are tested when he falls in with rebels in 16th-century Spain in Swordsman of Siena (1962).

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