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Tonino Delli Colli

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer. Cousin of Franco Delli Colli, Antonio (Tonino) Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America), Roman Polanski (Death and the Maiden and Bitter Moon), Louis Malle (Lacombe, Lucien), Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose), and Federico Fellini, whose last three films he photographed. His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976). His last film was Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he won his fourth David di Donatello for Best Cinematography. In 2005 he was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' International Achievement Award. In August of the same year, he died at home in Rome. Tonino Delli Colli died from a heart attack in 2005 at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy. In 2005, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.  


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Born:
Nov 20, 1922 In Roma, Lazio, Italia
Movie/TV Credits:
8
First Appeared:
In the movie I'm Photogenic 1980-03-21
Latest Project:
Movie Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things 2006-03-08
Known For
Poster of An Opera of Violence
Poster of I'm Photogenic
Filmography
Movie Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things Self 2006-03-08
Movie The Wages of Sin Self - DOP 2003-11-18
Movie An Opera of Violence Self - DOP 2003-11-18
Movie Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema Self - DOP 2001-09-22
Movie Intervista Tonino Delli Colli (uncredited) 1987-09-28
Movie La rosa dei nomi Self 1987-01-01
Movie The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' Self 1986-10-11
Movie I'm Photogenic Director of Photography (uncredited) 1980-03-21