Spaghetti Western Directors, Screenwriters, Cinematographers

Spaghetti Western Director ~ Jack Daring

Jack Daring was the stage name for Percy Moran an Irish-born action hero of British silent films, notably as Lieutenant Jack Daring in a series of crime adventures. He was born in Ireland on June 18, 1886. Moran had been a boxer and film extra before he began acting for the screen in 1912.From then until 1924 she acted in forty-eight films between 1911 and 1924 British silent productions. One of his best-known roles was as Lieutenant Jack Daring in several adventure films. Precisely under the name of Jack Daring, he directed a western film in 1919, “Jack, Sam and Pete”, also starring him.

According to some sources, and under the name Eddie Moran, he could have continued to perform for the big screen in the 1940s in the United States.

Percy Moran died in 1958.

As Jack Daring he directed one silent Euro-western "Jack, Sam and Pete" in 1919

DARING, Jack (aka Eddie Moran, Herbert Stewart) (Percy Moran) [6/18/1886, Ireland, U.K. – 1958] – boxer, stuntman, director, writer, actor.

Jack, Sam and Pete – 1919

 

Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Giovanni Bufalini

Giovanni has had an interest in film since the age of ten. He moved from his hometown to Milan in the early 1990s where he worked as a professional illustrator. He also took up singing and began his career as an actor appearing in local theater plays.

He then began experimenting making video films and released his first film “Marasma Milano” in 2001. He graduated from Civic School of Cinema, Television and New Media in Milan and then moved to Rome where he attended the above mentioned VIII° Corso RAI SCRIPT course.

His love of westerns comes from his father where they attended the cinema for Bud & Terence. The Dollar Trilogy was seen on TV every time Leone's films were played. Add to it that Orvieto, Tuscia in particular, is the Italian Louisiana as I always say. In my youth it was therefore easy to superimpose some vintage American atmospheres with what we lived on the sunny country roads. I grew up riding horses, because we had them available in the family. Then, in adulthood, I also began to get passionate about western shooting with real vintage weapons.

Since 2001 Bufalini has directed forty-four films, written for forty-five and acted in fourteen.

Giovanni has written two screenplays for Euro westerns: “Last Light Mile” in 2014 and “Resurrection” with Emiliano Ferrera in 2017.

BUFALINI, Giovanni [12/11/1973, Orvieto, Umbria, Italy -     ] – producer; director, assistant director, writer, film actor, brother of writer, actor Francesco Bufalini, married to ? (2017-    ).

Last Light Mile – 2014 (co)

Resurrection – 2017 (co)

 

Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~ Alberto Fusi

Alberto Fusiborn in Rome on October 25, 1913, was an Italian cameraman thirty-one films between 1935 and 1958 and a cinematographer also on thirty-one films 1935 to 1970. I can find no biographical information on him other than he died on January 14, 1993. He was 79 years old.

Alberto Fusi was a cinematographer on three Spaghetti westerns: “Per un pugno nell’occhio” (A Fistful of Knuckles) with Julio Ortas in 1965, “Anche nel West c’era una volta Dio” (Between God, the Devil and a Winchester) with Pablo Ripoll in 1968 and “Reverendo Colt” (Reverend Colt) in 1970.

FUSI, Alberto (aka A. Fusi, R. Fusi) [10/25/1913, Rome, Lazio, Italy – 1/14/1993, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – cinematographer, cameraman.

A Fistful of Knuckles – 1965 (co)

Between God, the Devil and a Winchester – 1968 (co)

Reverend Colt - 1970