Arrigo Colombo

{{short description|Italian film producer}} {{Infobox person | name = Arrigo Colombo | birth_date = 1916 | birth_place = Italy | death_date = {{death year and age|1998|1916}} | occupation = Film producer }}

'''Arrigo Colombo''' (1916–1998) was an Italian film producer.

He founded Jolly Film with Giorgio Papi,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/05/18/per-un-pugno-di-dollari-ecco-come-il-film-di-leone-e-diventato-leggenda/989145/ |title=Per un pugno di dollari, ecco come il film di Sergio Leone è diventato leggenda |first=Giampiero |last=Calapà |date=18 May 2014 |access-date=24 April 2019 |newspaper=Il Fatto Quotidiano |language=it}}</ref> which produced ''Gunfight at Red Sands'' (1963).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailygreen.it/31303-2/ |title=L’ultimo western italiano prima di Leone |first=Gianni |last=Lucini |date=21 August 2017 |access-date=24 April 2019 |work=Daily Green |language=it}}</ref>

Arrigo Colombo and Giorgio Papi hired Sergio Leone to direct ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964) with a budget of 200.000 dollars.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.laopiniondezamora.es/ultima/2014/06/30/oeste-lugar-guapos/771332.html |title=El Oeste no es lugar para guapos |first=Franco |last=Torre |date=30 June 2014 |access-date=24 April 2019 |newspaper=La Opinión de Zamora |language=es |publisher=Prensa Ibérica}}</ref> He was the only one who accepted the project by Giuliano Montaldo ''Sacco & Vanzetti'' (1971).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.taxidrivers.it/110520/stasera-in-tv/stasera-in-tv-su-rai-storia-alle-2110-sacco-e-vanzetti-di-giuliano-montaldo-con-gian-maria-volonte-e-riccardo-cucciolla.html |title=Stasera in tv su Rai Storia alle 21,10 Sacco e Vanzetti di Giuliano Montaldo, con Gian Maria Volonté e Riccardo Cucciolla |first=Luca |last=Biscontini |date=2 December 2018 |access-date=24 April 2019 |work=Taxidrivers |publisher=Disqus}}</ref>

==Filmography== ===As producer=== {{columnslist| * ''La viuda indomable'' (1978) * ''Seven Beauties'' (1975) * ''The Master and Margaret'' (1972) * ''Sacco & Vanzetti'' (1971) * ''Violent City'' (1970) * ''Grand Slam'' (1967) * ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964) * ''I motorizzati'' (1962) * ''Inspector Maigret'' (1958) * ''The Intruder'' (1956) * ''On Trial'' (1954) * ''I'm the Capataz'' (1951) }}

===As writer=== {{columnslist| * ''More Dollars for the MacGregors'' (1970) * ''Requiem for a Gringo'' (1968) * ''La duchessa di Santa Lucia'' (1959) * ''Under the Southern Cross'' (1938) }}

===As director=== * ''Black Magic'' (1949)

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0173031}}

Category:1916 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Italian film producers