Spaghetti Western Directors, Screenwriters, Cinematographers

Spaghetti Western Director ~ Tanner Beard

Tanner Beard is an Emmy nominated film and television actor, CEO of Silver Sail Entertainment, Co-Founder Mammoth Film Festival and has written and directed several motion pictures, series and documentaries over the last few decades.

The American director Tanner Beard hails from Texas where he was born in Big Spring, Texas on September 16, 1984. He attended the New York Film Academy in Hollywood, California shortly after finishing high school in his hometown of Snyder, Texas. This culminated with his first comedy television series "Valley Peaks," which Tanner produced, wrote, directed and starred in for over two seasons early on in his career.

Tanner has since split his time in various fields of motion pictures and television. As a director, he turned his Western short film, "Mouth of Caddo" into the feature film "Legend of Hell's Gate," which he also wrote, produced and starred in alongside Kevin Alejandro, Summer Glau, Henry Thomas and Glenn Morshower. His love of producing stories from the old west would continue with the European Western "6 Bullets To Hell." Shot on the same sets from famous Sergio Leoni and Clint Eastwood classics in Spain, the film features music by Ennio Morricone and is a painstaking recreation of the cult classic style from the 1960s and 1970s receiving several awards and most recently associate producer on Kevin Costner's epic tale "Horizon: An America Saga" Part II.

As CEO of Silver Sail Entertainment and now an Emmy nominated creator, we can't wait to see what more will come from Mr. Beard.

Beard has directed two Spaghetti westerns: “Six Bullets to Hell” in 2016 and more recently “In the Name of the Gun” in 2024

BEARD, Tanner (Neal Tanner Beard) [9/16/1984, Big Spring Texas, U.S.A. -     ] – producer, director, assistant director, writer, composer, film editor, cameraman, stuntman, film, TV actor, brother of producer, composer Lexie Shae Beard [1982-    ] founded Silver Sail Entertainment, founded the Mammoth Film Festival [2018], White Buffalo Golf Apparel.

Six Bullets to Hell – 2016

In the Name of the Gun – 2024

Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Arthur Askey

Arthur Bowden Askey was born in Liverpool, England on June 6, 1900. Askey was an English comedian and actor who was known for his short stature (5' 2") and distinctive horn-rimmed glasses, and his playful humor incorporating improvisation and catchphrases including "Hello playmates!", "I thank you" (pronounced "Ay-thang-yaw") and "Before your very eyes".

Askey achieved prominence in the 1930s in the BBC's first radio comedy series ‘Band Waggon’ and subsequently starred in several Gainsborough Pictures comedy films during the Second World War including “Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt” (1940) and “The Ghost Train” (1941). His novelty recordings for His Master's Voice include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey was a prominent television presence and made regular appearances on the BBC's long-running music hall program ‘The Good Old Days’. Askey was made an OBE in 1969 and a CBE in 1981; he continued to appear frequently on television, radio and the stage until his death on November 16, 1982.

Askey was married to Elizabeth May Swash [1899-1974] and their daughter was actress Anthea Askey [1933-1999] who often appeared with her father on TV and films.

Arthur’s only Euro-western which he starred in and co-wrote with John Baxter, Glenn Melvyn, Geofrey Orme, Basil Thomas was in the 1956 British comedy western “Ramsbottom Rides Again”

 

ASKEY, Arthur (Arthur Bowden Askey) [6/6/1900, Liverpool, England, U.K. – 11/16/1982, London, England, U.K. (gangrene)] – writer, actor, singer, married to Elizabeth May Swash [1899-1974] (1925-1974) father of Anthea Askey (Anthea Shirley Askey) [1933–1999], awarded CBE [1981].

Ramsbottom Rides Again – 1956 (co)

 

Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~ Eugenio Bentivoglio

 

Eugenio Bentivoglio was an Italian cameraman and cinematographer who worked on five films as a cameraman and twenty-one as a cinematographer from 1964 to 1992. I can find no biographical information on him.

Eugenio worked on two Spaghetti westerns: “Django sfida Sartana” (Django Defies Sartana) in 1970 and “La vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo” (Vengeance Trail) [cameraman]

BENTIVOGLIO, Eugenio [Italian] – cinematographer, cameraman.

Django Defies Sartana – 1970

Vengeance Trail – 1971 (cameraman)