Roberto Mauri

{{Short description|Italian actor, director and screenwriter (1924–2018)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Roberto Mauri | image = Roberto Mauri 53.jpg | caption = Mauri in 1953 | birth_name = Giuseppe Tagliavia | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1924|02|08}} | birth_place = Castelvetrano, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2018|02|18|1924|02|08}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | resting_place = | spouse = | children = | years_active = | occupation = Actor, film director, screenwriter }}

'''Roberto Mauri''' (8 February 1924 – 18 February 2018) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.

== Life and career == Born '''Giuseppe Tagliavia''' in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Mauri began his career as a film actor in low-budget films, occasionally even playing main roles.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> He debuted as a director co-directing with Andrea Bianchi the crime film ''La legge del mitra'', in which he was also an actor.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> Mainly active between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Mauri specialized in the Spaghetti Western genre, in which he was sometimes credited as Robert Johnson.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref><ref name=spaghetti>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}}</ref> He died in Rome, Italy on 18 February 2018, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roberto Mauri |url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/entree.php |website=Les Gens du Cinema |access-date=15 November 2024}}</ref>

== Selected filmography == ;Actor * ''Apparition'' (1943) * ''The Devil's Gondola'' (1946) * ''The Opium Den'' (1947) * ''They Were Three Hundred'' (1952) * ''Francis the Smuggler'' (1953) * ''La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi'' (1953)

;Director and screenwriter * ''Slaughter of the Vampires'' (1962) * ''Three Swords for Rome'' (1964) * ''The Invincible Brothers Maciste'' (1964) * ''Night of Violence'' (1965) * ''Vengeance Is My Forgiveness'' (1968) * ''Kong Island'' (1968) * ''Sartana in the Valley of Death'' (1970) * ''Wanted Sabata'' (1970) * ''He Was Called Holy Ghost'' (1971) * ''Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman'' (1971)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/142479/La-Spada-Normanna/details|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120052731/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/142479/La-Spada-Normanna/details|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2015|archive-date=2015-11-20}}</ref> * ''Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare'' (1974)

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