Carlo Simi
was born Giancarlo Simi on November 7, 1924 in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy. Simi was
an Italian architect, production designer and costume designer, who worked
frequently with Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci, giving their spaghetti
westerns a unique look. Most famous for his costume and set designs for “Once
Upon a Time in the West” (1968) Simi also built the town of 'El Paso' in the
Almería desert for Leone's second Western, “For a Few Dollars More” (1965). Built
around a massive bank, with vistas of the Tabernas Desert visible between
buildings, the set still exists, as a tourist attraction called "Oasys/Mini
Hollywood". Simi appeared in one Euro-western as the bank manager in “For
a Few Dollars More” (1965).
Simi died in
Rome on November 26, 2000 in Rome, Italy. Some of his costumes and set designs
were exhibited at the Autry National Center's Museum of the American West in
Los Angeles in 2005.
Today we
remember Carlo Simi on what would have been his 90th birthday.
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