Born in Rome in 1929 and died in 1989, Leone reinvented the western with long silences, extreme close-ups and grand operatic scores by Ennio Morricone. His spaghetti westerns made Clint Eastwood a star, and he later made an epic gangster saga.
Filmography
- The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
- For a Few Dollars More (1965)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)