Tonino Delli Colli

Personal Info

Known For Camera

Gender Male

Birthday 1922-11-20

Deathday 2005-08-16 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Rome, Italy

Also Known As Antonio Delli Colli

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

Camera

1997
Life Is Beautiful

as Director of Photography

1997
Marianna Ucrìa

as Director of Photography

1995
Looking for Paradise

as Director of Photography

1994
Death and the Maiden

as Director of Photography

1992
Bitter Moon

as Director of Photography

1991
Especially on Sunday

as Director of Photography

1991
A Simple Story

as Director of Photography

1990
The Voice of the Moon

as Director of Photography

1990
The African Woman

as Director of Photography

1988
Stradivari

as Director of Photography

1987
Intervista

as Director of Photography

1986
The Name of the Rose

as Director of Photography

1986
Ginger and Fred

as Director of Photography

1984
The Future Is Woman

as Director of Photography

1984
Once Upon a Time in America

as Director of Photography

1983
Trenchcoat

as Director of Photography

1981
Hotel Room

as Director of Photography

1981
Ghost of Love

as Director of Photography

1981
Tales of Ordinary Madness

as Director of Photography

1980
Hurricane Rosie

as Director of Photography

1980
Sunday Lovers

as Director of Photography

1980
I'm Photogenic

as Director of Photography

1979
Dear Father

as Director of Photography

1979
Lovers and Liars

as Director of Photography

1978
First Love

as Director of Photography

1978
Blood Feud

as Director of Photography

1977
The New Monsters

as Director of Photography

1977
The Purple Taxi

as Director of Photography

1977
Beach House

as Director of Photography

1977
Lost Soul

as Director of Photography

1976
Dear Michele

as Director of Photography

1976
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

as Director of Photography

1975
Seven Beauties

as Director of Photography

1974
The Walls of Sana'a

as Director of Photography

1974
Till Marriage Do Us Part

as Director of Photography

1974
Lacombe, Lucien

as Director of Photography

1973
Bawdy Tales

as Director of Photography

1973
Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears

as Director of Photography

1972
The Canterbury Tales

as Director of Photography

1972
Pilgrimage

as Director of Photography

1972
The Master Touch

as Director of Photography

1971
Homo Eroticus

as Director of Photography

1971
The Decameron

as Director of Photography

1970
Operation Snafu

as Director of Photography

1970
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

as Director of Photography

1969
Pigsty

as Director of Photography

1969
Love Circle

as Director of Photography

1968
What Are the Clouds?

as Director of Photography

1968
OSS 117 Murder for Sale

as Director of Photography

1968
The Day of the Owl

as Director of Photography

1968
Caprice Italian Style

as Director of Photography

1968
Spirits of the Dead

as Director of Photography

1968
Once Upon a Time in the West

as Director of Photography

1967
Ghosts, Italian Style

as Director of Photography

1967
China Is Near

as Director of Photography

1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

as Director of Photography

1966
We'll Go to the City

as Director of Photography

1966
Target for Killing

as Director of Photography

1966
The Hawks and the Sparrows

as Director of Photography

1966
The Sultans

as Director of Photography

1965
The Mandrake

as Director of Photography

1965
Love Meetings

as Director of Photography

1965
The Camp Followers

as Director of Photography

1965
The Gospel According to Matthew

as Director of Photography

1964
Amori pericolosi

as Director of Photography

1964
Love in Four Dimensions

as Director of Photography

1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

as Director of Photography

1964
Extraconiugale

as Director of Photography

1963
The Executioner

as Director of Photography

1963
La bella di Lodi

as Director of Photography

1963
Ro.Go.Pa.G.

as Director of Photography

1962
The Swordsman of Siena

as Director of Photography

1962
Mamma Roma

as Director of Photography

1961
Accattone

as Director of Photography

1961
The Thief of Baghdad

as Director of Photography

1961
The Wonders of Aladdin

as Director of Photography

1959
First Love

as Director of Photography

1959
The Maids

as Director of Photography

1959
Poor Millionaires

as Director of Photography

1959
L'amico del giaguaro

as Director of Photography

1958
Adorable and Lying

as Director of Photography

1958
Marinai, donne e guai

as Director of Photography

1958
Venice, the Moon and You

as Director of Photography

1957
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl

as Director of Photography

1957
Seven Hills of Rome

as Director of Photography

1957
Susanna tutta panna

as Director of Photography

1957
Female Three Times

as Director of Photography

1957
Oh! Sabella

as Director of Photography

1957
Poor But Beautiful

as Director of Photography

1956
Donatella

as Director of Photography

1955
Le signorine dello 04

as Director of Photography

1955
Piccola posta

as Director of Photography

1955
The Intruder

as Director of Photography

1955
It Happened in the Penitentiary

as Director of Photography

1955
The White Angel

as Director of Photography

1954
The Shadow

as Director of Photography

1954
Mid-Century Loves

as Director of Photography

1954
Rosso e nero

as Director of Photography

1954
Night of Love

as Director of Photography

1953
I Always Loved You

as Director of Photography

1953
1953
Gioventù alla sbarra

as Director of Photography

1952
I tre corsari

as Director of Photography

1952
Toto and the Women

as Director of Photography

1952
Totó in color

as Director of Photography

1951
Damn the Taxes!!

as Director of Photography

1951
Toto the Third Man

as Director of Photography

1951
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!

as Director of Photography

1951
Il padrone del vapore

as Director of Photography

1951
Io sono il capataz

as Director of Photography

1951
Milano miliardaria

as Director of Photography

1950
Alina

as Director of Photography

1950
Il voto

as Director of Photography

1950
Fugitive Lady

as Director of Photography

1949
City of Pain

as Director of Photography

1949
Fame and the Devil

as Director of Photography

1949
La mano della morta

as Director of Photography

1948
L'isola de Montecristo

as Director of Photography

1947
Sinfonia fatale

as Camera Operator

1942
Rossini

as Assistant Camera

Actor

2003
An Opera of Violence

as Self - DOP

2003
The Wages of Sin

as Self - DOP

1987
Intervista

as Tonino Delli Colli (uncredited)

1987
1980
I'm Photogenic

as Director of Photography (uncredited)

Editor

1958
1957

Crew

1962
The Nun of Monza

as Cinematography