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Sergio Leone: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born January 3, 1929 • Rome • Italy
Died April 30, 1989 (aged 60) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “A Fistful of Dollars” • “For a Few Dollars More” • “Once upon a Time in the West”

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Portrait of movie director Sergio Leone with large glasses, a full gray beard, and slicked-back hair, looking slightly to the side.
Director Sergio Leone, wearing glasses, gives instructions to Clint Eastwood and Margarita Lozano during a dramatic scene on the set of A Fistful of Dollars.
A Fistful of Dollars
Scene from Once Upon a Time in the West with Charles Bronson as Harmonica, rear left, aiming a gun at Henry Fonda as Frank, who stands in the foreground in a desert landscape.
Eli Wallach as Tuco, holding a revolver and smiling, sits beside Clint Eastwood, both wearing wide-brimmed hats in a desert scene from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Claudia Cardinale as Jill McBain in Once Upon a Time in the West, wearing a dark dress and lying on wooden planks in a dusty, Western landscape.
Clint Eastwood, wearing a hat and poncho, stands in the center of a dimly lit room surrounded by seated men in a scene from For a Few Dollars More.
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