Roberto Mauri

Italian actor, director, and screenwriter

Roberto Mauri
Mauri in 1953
Born	Giuseppe Tagliavia 1924 Castelvetrano, Italy
Occupation	Film director

Roberto Mauri (born 1924) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born Giuseppe Tagliavia in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Mauri began his career as a film actor in low-budget films, occasionally even playing main roles.^[1] He debuted as a director co-directing with Andrea Bianchi the crime film La legge del mitra, in which he was also an actor.^[1] Mainly active between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Mauri specialized in the Spaghetti Western genre, in which he was sometimes credited as Robert Johnson.^[1]^[2]

Selected filmography

Actor

Apparition (1943)
The Devil's Gondola (1946)
The Opium Den (1947)
They Were Three Hundred (1952)
Francis the Smuggler (1953)
La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953)

Director and screenwriter

Slaughter of the Vampires (1962)
Three Swords for Rome (1964)
The Invincible Brothers Maciste (1964)
Night of Violence (1965)
Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
Kong Island (1968)
Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
Wanted Sabata (1970)
He Was Called Holy Ghost (1971)
Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman (1971)^[3]
Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare (1974)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
^ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-8804572770.
^ "Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015.