Roberto Mauri
Roberto Mauri (8 February 1924 – 18 February 2018) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.
Roberto Mauri

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- Name
- Roberto Mauri
- Birth Name
- Giuseppe Tagliavia
- Born
- 8 February 1924
- Birthplace
- Castelvetrano, Italy
- Died
- 18 February 2018
- Place of death
- Rome, Italy
- Occupation
- Actor, film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Languages
- Italian
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Roberto Mauri (8 February 1924 – 18 February 2018) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.
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• Name — Roberto Mauri • Birth Name — Giuseppe Tagliavia • Born — 8 February 1924 • Birthplace — Castelvetrano, Italy • Died — 18 February 2018 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Occupation — Actor, film director, screenwriter
Life and career
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. He debuted as a director co-directing with Andrea Bianchi the crime film La legge del mitra, in which he was also an actor. 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. He died in Rome, Italy on 18 February 2018, at the age of 94.
Selected filmography
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) • Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare (1974)
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