Spaghetti Western Director ~ Wouter Jansen
Wouter Jansen has spent most of his career in films in the art department as a set dresser (twenty-seven films), but he’s also been active as a producer, writer, production manager, art director in two films and a film editor in one. He is the owner of the sales and festival distribution company Square Eyes. He worked as the head of programming at the Go Short - International Film Festival during the first 10 editions. In 2013 he started Some Shorts, which changed to Square Eyes in 2019, which specializes in having outstanding non-mainstream films find the audience and recognition they deserve. With Square Eyes, Wouter represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, and collaborates closely with the filmmakers to devise bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. This has resulted in a small catalogue of films premiering at prestigious festivals and winning multiple awards over the last few years like main prizes at Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand.
Wouter Jansen directed two Euro-westerns: “Water” in 2011 and “Draw Your Gun” in 2015.
JANSEN, Wouter [2/2/1972, Amsterdam, Netherlands - ] – producer, director, writer, founded Some Shorts Productions [2013], Square Eyes [2019].
Water – 2011 [producer, production designer, director, writer]
Draw Your Gun – 2015 [producer, director, writer, film editor]
Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Remigo Del Grosso
Remigo Del Grosso was an Italian director, assistant director and writer. He was born in Benevento, Campania, Italy on February 26, 1912. Del Grosso, was the grandson of the astronomer of the same name, and had worked since 1940 as a scenarist, screenwriter and occasional assistant director films. His first and his last contribution was mostly being involved in history and adventure films mostly for Giorgio Ferroni. From 1959 Del Grosso also worked as a director of documentaries, including the 1963 “Due grande nomi” about the painters Michelangelo and Raffael. He had released his only feature film as a director two years earlier “Tartar Invasion” in 1961. Del Grosso wrote and co-wrote thirty-one films between 1940 and 1974.
Remigo Del Grosso co-wrote screenplays for five Spaghetti westerns: “Adiós gringo” with J. Luis Jerez, Michele Villerot and George Finley in 1965, “Per pochi dollari ancora” (Fort Yuma Gold) with Massimiliano Capriccioli, Sandro Continenza, Guilles Morris Dumoulin, Augusto Finocchi, Ettore Giannini and Leonardo Martín and “Per il gusto di uccidere” (A Taste for Killing) with Víctor Auz (Victor Cstro), Augusto Finocchi, Sandro Continenza, Massimo Capriccioli and Leonardo Martin, “Wanted” with Fernando Di Leo and Augusto Finocchi in 1967 and “Il pistolero segnato de Dio” (Two Pistols and a Coward) with Augusto Finocchi in 1968.
Del GROSSO, Remigo (aka R. Delgrosso) [2/26/1912, Benevento, Campania, Italy – 7/18/1984, Riccione, Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy] – director, assistant director, writer.
Adiós Gringo – 1965 (co)
Fort Yuma Gold – 1966 (co)
A Taste for Killing – 1966 (co)
Wanted – 1967 (co)
Two Pistols and a Coward – 1968 (co)
Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~ Ted Moore
Ted Moore was a South African-born British cinematographer best known for his contributions to seven James Bond films in the 1960s and 1970s, including “Dr. No” (1962), “From Russia with Love” (1963), “Goldfinger” (1964), “Thunderball” (1965), “You Only Live Twice” (1967), “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971), and “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1974). His career spanned over four decades, marked by innovative visual storytelling in adventure, historical, and fantasy genres, and he earned prestigious awards for his technical mastery and artistic vision.
Born Frank Edward Moore in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa on August 7, 1914, Moore relocated to Great Britain at the age of sixteen in 1930, where he began his film career as a camera assistant. By 1939, he had advanced to camera operator on projects like the war drama Sons of the Sea, and during World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre for his valor. Transitioning to director of photography after the war, Moore's first credited feature in that role was “A Prize of Gold” (1955), followed by notable works such as “The Day of the Triffids” (1963) and “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969). His collaboration with director Fred Zinnemann on “A Man for All Seasons” (1966) brought him international acclaim, securing an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and a BAFTA Award, making him the first South African to win an Oscar in that category. Earlier, he received a BAFTA for Best Cinematography on “From Russia with Love” (1963). Moore's later projects included the epic fantasy “Clash of the Titans” (1981), and his final credit was the television movie ‘Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story’ (1982). He passed away in Surrey, England, in July of 1987 at the age of 72.
Ted Moore was a cinematographer on one Spaghetti western, “Shalako” in 1968.
MOORE, Ted (Frank Edward Moore) [8/7/1914, Benoni, Western Cape, South Africa – 7/?/1987, Surrey, England, U.K.] – cinematographer, cameraman.
Shalako – 1968
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