Spaghetti Western Director ~ Romeo Bosetti
Romolus Joseph Bosetti was born in Chiari, Brescia, Italy
on January 18, 1879. An Italian producer, director, screenwriter, acrobat,
stuntman and actor. He was the son of circus performers Giovanni Baresi,
Filomena Baresi, brother of dancer Henriette Baresi.
Due to the continual wanderings of his parents, Bosetti,
could not attend school, but taught himself French, thanks to the fact that
their circus often stopped in French speaking areas.
An acrobat, stuntman and artist in music halls, Bosetti
made his debut in front of the camera in 1906 in a Pathé short called “La
course à la perruque” along with André Deed. Later he worked for Gaumont, where
he acted, directed and wrote the stories and screenplays for the comic series
“Roméo” from 1908 to 1914. He was also the producer of three films directed by
Feuillade 's Fantômas in the series. As Romeo Bosetti he appeared in two silent
Euro-westerns: “Roméo cow-boy” (1908) and “Calino with the Indians” (1909).
Bosetti also launched other comic characters and directed
them personally in over 250 films shot until 1916. The first was played by
Clément (Calino Mege). He then returned to Pathé in 1911 and directed for the
Parisian film studio comedy productions in Nice. Other comic characters he
directed were Bigorno (René Lantini), Caroline (Ellen Lowe), Casimir (Lucien
Bataille), Little Moritz (Maurice Schwartz), Patouillard (Paul Bertho) and
Rosalie (Sarah Duhamel).
Forced to abandon the film business during the First
World War, he participated in the conflict where he was wounded. When he
returned comedy films were no longer in vogue and he became a producer and
worked behind the scenes until his death on October 27, 1948, in Suresnes,
Hauts-de-Seine, France at the age of 69.
Bosetti directed two silent film Euro-westerns: “Roméo
cow-boy” in 1908 and “Calino chez des Indiens” (Calino with the Indians) in
1909.
BOSETTI, Roméo (Romolus Joseph Bosetti)
[1/18/1879, - 10/27/1948, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France] - producer,
director, screenwriter, acrobat, stuntman, actor, son of circus performers
Giovanni Baresi, Filomena Baresi, brother of dancer Henriette Baresi.
Roméo cow-boy – 1908
Calino with the Indians –
1909
Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Richard Balducci
Armando Pellegrino Ido Balducci was born in Paris, France
on February 10, 1922. As a World War II correspondent until the Liberation, he
joined Pierre Benard at France-Soir where Pierre Lazareff assigned him to the
Shows section. He then became the press officer of the Olympia for ten years.
He was an actor in Jean-Luc Godard's “Breathless”. Then
press officer again. He collaborated with many directors such as Luis Buñuel,
Roger Vadim, Christian-Jaque, Luchino Visconti, Jean-Pierre Melville, Claude
Lelouch, Terence Young, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Demy, Agnès
Varda, Philippe de Broca, François Truffaut, Jacques Deray, Claude Chabrol, Max
Ophüls, Jacques Becker, André Cayatte, etc.
He owes his fame mainly to the creation of the film
series “Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez” (1964-1982) with Louis de Funès, for which
he had the original idea.
He moved on to directing under the alias Richard Balducci
at the end of the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s, he made a series of comedy
films with often evocative titles. His last film dates from 1986. He then
devoted himself to writing novels.
Balducci married the ski champion turned actress Gisèle
Sandré on January 17, 1963, in Paris, in the presence of Johnny Hallyday,
Dalida and Charles Aznavour. On July 15, 1969, he married the actress and
former Miss France Karin Meier in Neuilly, France.
Balducci died on December 8, 2015, in Créteil, France at
the age of 93.
Balducci’s only Spaghetti western was “Dans la poussière
du soleil” (In the Dust of the Sun) in 1971 which he directed and wrote the
screenplay with Félix Fernández
BALDUCCI, Richard (aka Bruno Baldwin) (Armando Pellegrino
Ido Balducci) [2/10/1922, Paris,
‘Île-de-France, France - 12/8/2015, Créteil), Val-De-Marne, France] –
journalist, director, writer, married to actress Gisèle Sandré (Gisèle
Simone Sandré) [1941- ]
(1968-19??).
In the Dust of the
Sun – 1971 (co)
Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~ Julio Bragado
Julio Bragado Darman is a Spanish cameraman and
cinematographer. He worked as a cameraman on seven films from 1966 to 1974 and
was a cinematographer on twenty-five films between 1967-2003.
Julio was a cinematographer on three Euro-westerns: “Les
nouvelles aventures de Zorro” (The New Zorro) – 1990-1993,” Aqui llega Condemor
(el pecador de el pradera)” (Here Comes Condemor (The Sinner of the Plains) and
“Manoa la ciudad de oro” (Manoa, the City of Gold) both in 1996.
BRAGADO, Julio (Julio Bragado Darman)
[Spanish] – cinematographer, cameraman.
The New Zorro (TV) – 1990-1993
Here Comes Condemor
(The Sinner of the Plains) – 1996
Manoa, the City of
Gold - 1996
