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Tonino Delli Colli
Rome, Italy
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…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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2022
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
Movie Himself
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2006
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Movie Self
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2003
An Opera of Violence
Movie Self - DOP
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2003
The Wages of Sin
Movie Self - DOP
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2001
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Movie Self - DOP
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1997
Life Is Beautiful
Movie Director of Photography
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1997
Marianna Ucrìa
Movie Director of Photography
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1995
Looking for Paradise
Movie Director of Photography
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1994
Death and the Maiden
Movie Director of Photography
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1993
The Thirst for Gold
Movie Cinematography
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1992
Bitter Moon
Movie Director of Photography
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1991
Especially on Sunday
Movie Director of Photography
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1991
A Simple Story
Movie Director of Photography
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1990
The African Woman
Movie Director of Photography
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1990
The Voice of the Moon
Movie Director of Photography
More credits
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1988
Stradivari
Movie Director of Photography
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1987
Intervista
Movie Tonino Delli Colli (uncredited)
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1987
La rosa dei nomi
Movie Self
- 1986
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1986
The Name of the Rose
Movie Director of Photography
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1986
Ginger and Fred
Movie Director of Photography
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1984
The Future Is Woman
Movie Director of Photography
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1984
Once Upon a Time in America
Movie Director of Photography
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1983
Trenchcoat
Movie Director of Photography
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1981
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Movie Director of Photography
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1981
Ghost of Love
Movie Director of Photography
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1981
Hotel Room
Movie Director of Photography
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1980
Sunday Lovers
Movie Director of Photography
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1980
I'm Photogenic
Movie Director of Photography (uncredited)
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1980
Hurricane Rosie
Movie Director of Photography
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1979
Dear Father
Movie Director of Photography
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1979
Lovers and Liars
Movie Director of Photography
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1978
Blood Feud
Movie Director of Photography
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1978
First Love
Movie Director of Photography
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1977
The New Monsters
Movie Director of Photography
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1977
Beach House
Movie Director of Photography
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1977
The Purple Taxi
Movie Director of Photography
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1977
Lost Soul
Movie Director of Photography
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1976
Dear Michele
Movie Director of Photography
