Tonino Delli Colli

Known For

Camera

Born

Nov 20, 1922

Died

Aug 16, 2005

Place of Birth

Rome, Italy

Credits

140 titles

Tonino Delli Colli

Biography

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.  

Known For

Filmography

2022

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2019

Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

Himself

Movie
2006

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Self

Movie
2003

The Wages of Sin

Self - DOP

Movie
2003

An Opera of Violence

Self - DOP

Movie
2001

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

Self - DOP

Movie
1997

Life Is Beautiful

Director of Photography

Movie
1997

Marianna Ucrìa

Director of Photography

Movie
1995

Looking for Paradise

Director of Photography

Movie
1994

Death and the Maiden

Director of Photography

Movie
1993

The Thirst for Gold

Cinematography

Movie
1992

Bitter Moon

Director of Photography

Movie
1991

Especially on Sunday

Director of Photography

Movie
1991

A Simple Story

Director of Photography

Movie
1990

The African Woman

Director of Photography

Movie
1990

The Voice of the Moon

Director of Photography

Movie
1988

Stradivari

Director of Photography

Movie
1987

Intervista

Tonino Delli Colli (uncredited)

Movie
1987

La rosa dei nomi

Self

Movie
1986

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

Self

Movie
1986

The Name of the Rose

Director of Photography

Movie
1986

Ginger and Fred

Director of Photography

Movie
1984

The Future Is Woman

Director of Photography

Movie
1984

Once Upon a Time in America

Director of Photography

Movie
1983

Trenchcoat

Director of Photography

Movie
1981

Tales of Ordinary Madness

Director of Photography

Movie
1981

Ghost of Love

Director of Photography

Movie
1981

Hotel Room

Director of Photography

Movie
1980

Sunday Lovers

Director of Photography

Movie
1980

I'm Photogenic

Director of Photography (uncredited)

Movie
1980

Hurricane Rosie

Director of Photography

Movie
1979

Dear Father

Director of Photography

Movie
1979

Lovers and Liars

Director of Photography

Movie
1978

Blood Feud

Director of Photography

Movie
1978

First Love

Director of Photography

Movie
1977

The New Monsters

Director of Photography

Movie
1977

Beach House

Director of Photography

Movie
1977

The Purple Taxi

Director of Photography

Movie
1977

Lost Soul

Director of Photography

Movie
1976

Dear Michele

Director of Photography

Movie
1976

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Director of Photography

Movie
1975

Seven Beauties

Director of Photography

Movie
1974

Till Marriage Do Us Part

Director of Photography

Movie
1974

The Walls of Sana'a

Director of Photography

Movie
1974

Lacombe, Lucien

Director of Photography

Movie
1973

Bawdy Tales

Director of Photography

Movie
1973

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears

Director of Photography

Movie
1972

The Master Touch

Director of Photography

Movie
1972

The Canterbury Tales

Director of Photography

Movie
1972

Pilgrimage

Director of Photography

Movie