
Duccio Tessari
Biography
Duccio Tessari was an Italian director, screenwriter and occasionally actor, considered one of the fathers of spaghetti westerns. Born in Genoa, Tessari started in the fifties as documentarist and as screenwriter of Peplum films. In 1964 he co-wrote Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, one year later he gained an impressive commercial success and launched the Giuliano Gemma's career with A Pistol for Ringo and his immediate sequel, The Return of Ringo.
He later touched different genres and worked in RAI TV, directing some successful TV-series. He died of cancer in Rome, at 68. He was married to actress Lorella De Luca.
Acting (3 movies)
Directing (30 movies)

The Bloodstained Butterfly
1971

The Return of Ringo
1965

There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
1990

Zorro
1975

Tex and the Lord of the Deep
1985

A Pistol for Ringo
1965

Puzzle
1974

Tony Arzenta
1973

Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang
1966

Death Occurred Last Night
1970

Three Tough Guys
1974

The Bastard
1968

Alive or Preferably Dead
1969

Beyond Justice
1992

My Son, the Hero
1962

Safari Express
1976

Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971

Un centesimo di secondo
1981

The Scapegoat
1963

Winged Devils
1972

La madama
1976

Please, Let the Flowers Live
1986

The Heroes
1973

Secret of the Sphinx
1964

Better a Widow
1968
Baciami Strega
1985

Dangerous Pleasures
1965

Quella piccola differenza
1969

Per amore... per magia...
1967

The Fifth Commandment
1978
