# Roberto Mauri

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{{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](/source/Castelvetrano), Italy
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=y|2018|02|18|1924|02|08}}
| death_place   = [Rome](/source/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](/source/Castelvetrano), [Trapani](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Apparition_(1943_film))'' (1943)
* ''[The Devil's Gondola](/source/The_Devil's_Gondola)'' (1946)
* ''[The Opium Den](/source/The_Opium_Den)'' (1947)
* ''[They Were Three Hundred](/source/They_Were_Three_Hundred)'' (1952)
* ''[Francis the Smuggler](/source/Francis_the_Smuggler)'' (1953)
* ''[La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi](/source/La_pattuglia_dell'Amba_Alagi)'' (1953)

;Director and screenwriter
* ''[Slaughter of the Vampires](/source/Slaughter_of_the_Vampires)'' (1962)
* ''[Three Swords for Rome](/source/Three_Swords_for_Rome)'' (1964)
* ''[The Invincible Brothers Maciste](/source/The_Invincible_Brothers_Maciste)'' (1964) 
* ''[Night of Violence](/source/Night_of_Violence)'' (1965)
* ''[Vengeance Is My Forgiveness](/source/Vengeance_Is_My_Forgiveness)'' (1968) 
* ''[Kong Island](/source/Kong_Island)'' (1968) 
* ''[Sartana in the Valley of Death](/source/Sartana_in_the_Valley_of_Death)'' (1970)
* ''[Wanted Sabata](/source/Wanted_Sabata)'' (1970)
* ''[He Was Called Holy Ghost](/source/He_Was_Called_Holy_Ghost)'' (1971)
* ''[Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman](/source/Ivanhoe%2C_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](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=2015|archive-date=2015-11-20}}</ref>
* ''[Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare](/source/Madeleine%3A_Anatomy_of_a_Nightmare)'' (1974)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|id =0561089}}

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Category:1924 births
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Category:20th-century Italian male actors
Category:Italian film directors
Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian screenwriters
Category:Italian male screenwriters
Category:People from Castelvetrano

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