Guido Zurli was born
on January 9, 1929 in Foiano, Della Chiara Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. After some experience as an assistant
director, in 1962 he had the opportunity to direct a film initially entrusted
to Sergio Leone, “Le verdi bandiere di Allah”. As a result, even using the
pseudonyms (among others, Albert Moore, GZ Reds, Jean Loret and Frank Sanders)
he directed several genre films, westerns, espionage, adventure and horror, all
characterized by a thin vein of humor. Guido directed five Euro-westerns, one
of which was never completed. He began with “Thompson 1880” (1966) starring
Gordon Mitchell, followed by “A Man Called Amen” (also screenwriter) and “Zorro
the Fox” both in 1968In 1971 he went to Turkey to direct a thriller, the resulting film was commercially successful and Zurli made more moives with Turkish production companies including the last of his Euro-westerns “Cowboy Kid in 1972 for which he also wrote the screenplay.
Meanwhile in Italy during the second half of the 1970s the film industry was in crisis and he was only offered sex and pornographic film. He decided to return to Turkey for a period of time, where in 1979 he made police film “Bersaglio altezza uomo”.
In Italian films he appeared as a writer (under the pseudonym Guider Zurlen) in the film by Raniero Di Giovanbattista “Valentina, ragazza in calore” featuring the film debut of Moana Pozzi, but in reality his contribution to the film is minimal.
Guido died in Rome on October 23, 2009.
Today we remember Guido Zurli on what would have been his 85th birthday.
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