Sergio Garrone

{{Short description|Italian director, screenwriter and film producer (1925–2023)}} {{Infobox person | name = Sergio Garrone | image= | caption= | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|4|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Rome]], Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|7|12|1925|4|15|df=y}} | death_place = [[Road Town]], British Virgin Islands | resting_place= | spouse = | relatives = [[Riccardo Garrone (actor)|Riccardo Garrone]] (brother) | years_active = | occupation = Director }}

'''Sergio Garrone''' (15 April 1925 – 12 July 2023) was an Italian director, screenwriter and film producer.

== Life and career == Born in [[Rome]], the brother of the actor [[Riccardo Garrone (actor)|Riccardo]],<ref name=spaghetti>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}}</ref> Garrone began his career in 1948 working as assistant director, documentary filmmaker, and production assistant.<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> In 1953, he abandoned the cinema industry, but in 1965 he resurfaced as a producer of low-budget genre films.<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> Starting from 1968, Garrone was also active as a director and a screenwriter, specializing in the [[Spaghetti Western]] genre.<ref name=spaghetti>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}}</ref><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 was usually credited as '''Willy S. Regan'''.<ref name=spaghetti>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}}</ref><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> Garrone died in July 2023, at the age of 98.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cemetery with crosses – legends lost but remembered/G |url=https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Cemetery_with_crosses_-_legends_lost_but_remembered/G |website=SWDB |access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref>

== Selected filmography == ;Director and screenwriter * ''[[No Graves on Boot Hill]]'' (1968) * ''[[A Noose for Django]]'' (1969) * ''[[Django the Bastard]]'' (1969) *''[[La colomba non deve volare]]'' (1970) * ''[[Kill Django... Kill First]]'' (1971) * ''[[Terrible Day of the Big Gundown]]'' (1971) * ''[[Lover of the Monster]]'' (1974) * ''[[The Hand That Feeds the Dead]]'' (1974) * ''[[SS Experiment Camp]]'' (1976) * ''[[SS Camp 5: Women's Hell]]'' (1977)

;Screenwriter * ''[[Death Knocks Twice]]'' (1969) * ''[[Five for Hell]]'' (1969) * ''[[The Big Bust Out]]'' (1972) * ''[[La pagella]]'' (1980)

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