Spaghetti Western
Director ~ Víctor Matellano
Víctor Matellano is
a Spanish producer, director and writer. He produced ten films between 2014 and
2024, has written for sixteen films between 2013 and 2026 and directed nineteen
films between 1996 and 2026.
As a film director,
after numerous short films such as those selected for the Goya awards “Tío Jess”
and with “La cañada de los ingleses”, he debuted in the field of feature films
with the documentary “Zarpazos! A journey through Spanish Horror” in which Joe
Dante, Colin Arthur, Jorge Grau, Eugenio Martín Márquez or Paco Plaza among
others participated. His first fiction feature film, released internationally, was
“Wax”, starring Jack Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin and Jimmy Shaw. “Vampyres” was
his second fiction feature film, written by José Ramón Larraz, also released
internationally, and starring Caroline Munro, Marta Flich and Fele Martínez
among others. “Stop Over in Hell” was his third fiction feature film as a
director, starring Enzo G. Castellari, Nadia de Santiago, Veki Velilla, Manuel
Bandera, among others.
In October of 2022
he received the Spirit of the West Award at the Almería Western Film Festival
(AWFF), an award that highlights the work of film professionals who have
contributed to preserving and revitalizing the western genre in recent decades.
Víctor Matellano
García has directed one Euro western and a documentary: “Parada en el infierno”
(Stop Over in Hell) in 2016 and “Clint Spain Connection” in 2025
MATELLANO, Víctor (Víctor
Matellano García) [1971, Madrid, Madrid, Spain - ] – producer, director, author, writer,
awarded Spirit of the West Award at the 2022 Almeria Western Film Festival.
Stop Over in Hell –
2016
Clint Spain
Connection – 2025
Spaghetti Western
Screenwriter ~ Ladislas Fodor
Ladislas Joan Fodor
was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose works spanned
literature, theater, and film, with numerous adaptations into international
cinema. Born in Budapest on March 28, 1898, he initially studied medicine
before pursuing journalism and writing, producing short stories, novels, and
plays influenced by fellow Hungarian dramatist Ferenc Molnár, achieving
particular success abroad with technically sophisticated stage works. From 1932
onward, Fodor contributed screenplays to Hollywood productions, including “Jewel
Robbery” (1932) and “Tales of Manhattan” (1942), before fleeing Nazi
persecution in 1938 due to his Jewish origins, first to France and then to the
United States. In the 1950s, he returned to Europe, settling in West Germany
and writing for German films such as “Tom Thumb” (1958) and later works like “The
Last Roman” (1968), cementing his legacy in transatlantic entertainment.
Fodor died in Los
Angeles, California on September 1, 1978 at the age of 80.
Ladislas Fodor co-wrote
screenplays for four Euro-westerns: “Old Shatterhand” (Apache’s Last Battle)
with Robert A. Stemmle in 1963, “Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes” (Pyramid of
the Sun God) with Robert Adolf Stemmle, Georg Marischka and Paul Jarrico in
1964, “Der Schatz der Azteken” (The Treasure of the Aztecs) in 1965 and “La
balada de Johnny Ringo” (Who Killed Johnny R.?) in 1966 with Peter Achilles,
J.L. Madrid
FODOR, Ladislas (Ladislao Fodor,
Ladislaus Fodor, Ladislav Fodor, Laszlo Fodor, Lazlo Fodor, László Fodor, S.
Fodor, Fodor László, W. George Selous) (Ladislas Joan Fodor) [3/28/1898,
Budapest, Hungary – 9/1/1978, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.] –
novelist, writer, playwright, married to Rózsa Faludi (1920-1921), married to Etelka
Borbála Jagasich (Jagasich Borbála Etelka) (1923-1928), married to Baroness
Ella Parnegg (Gabriella Mária Karolina Paulina) [1892-1981] (1941-1978).
Apache’s Last Battle
– 1963 (co)
Pyramid of the Sun
God – 1964 (co)
The Treasure of the
Aztecs – 1965 (co)
Who Killed Johnny
R.? – 1966 (co)
Spaghetti Western
Cinematographer ~ Francisco Sempere
Francisco Sempere was a Spanish cameraman and
cinematographer. He worked as a cameraman on eighteen films between 1942 and
1972 and as a cinematographer on seventy-two films between 1953 and 1979.
Sempere was born in Spain sometime in 1915. He was passionate
about photography and cinema, and worked in minor assignments and, later, as a
camera assistant and second operator, until Domingo Viladomat commissioned him
to photograph “Hermano menor” (1952), which was his debut on the big screen. A
notable specialist in black and white cinema and, from the second half of the sixties,
in color cinema, he worked under the orders of some of the best directors of
the 1950s and 1960s.
Francisco Sempere died in Madrid on September 11, 1979 at
the age of 64.
Francisco Sempere was a cinematographer on two Spaghetti
westerns: “Adiós gringo” in 1965, “El Mestizo” (Django Does Not Forgive) with Francisco
Sánchez Muñoz in 1966 and “Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte” (A
Bullet for Sandoval) in 1969. He was a cameraman on 1970’s “El Condor”.
SEMPERE, Francisco (aka F. Sempere,
Francisco Sempere) (Francisco Sempere González) [1915, Spain –
9/11/1979, Madrid, Madrid, Spain] – cinematographer, cameraman.
Adiós Gringo – 1965
Django Does Not
Forgive – 1966 (co)
A Bullet for
Sandoval – 1969
El Condor – 1970
[cameraman]
