Demofilo Fidani

Demofilo Fidani

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Biography

Demofilo Fidani (born 8 February 1914 on a steamship bound for Cagliari; died 4 April 1994) was an Italian film director (24 films), set designer (more than 200 films), painter, and a regarded medium and author. As director, Fidani specialized in spaghetti westerns and used many different pseudonyms including Miles Deem, Lucky Dickinson, Alex Demos, and Danilo Dani. Many of his films were westerns, in which he used the names of well-known characters such as Butch Cassidy, Macho Callahan, Django and Sartana, as well as titles that were variations of popular titles. Besides his westerns, he directed crime films, sex comedies, and, in 1972, a giallo called A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services. Fidani's regular actors included Jack Betts (also known as Hunt Powers), Gordon Mitchell, Jeff Cameron and Klaus Kinski.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Sartana and His Shadow of Death movie poster

Sartana and His Shadow of Death

Geoffredo Scarciofolo (using the pseudonym "Jeff Cameron") is the famed gunfighter Sartana, who is offered a chance at amnesty from the $12,000 bounty on his head if he wipes out Benny Randal, his brother Baby Face, and an equally nasty sheriff.

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Sartana and His Shadow of Death

Killer 77, Alive or Dead movie poster

Killer 77, Alive or Dead

At the request of the CIA, British secret agent Lester follows the ominous scientist George King, who, after successfully sabotaging an American rocket launch, has announced to the world's powerful that he can disable any nuclear weapon...

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Killer 77, Alive or Dead

Run, Psycho, Run movie poster

Run, Psycho, Run

Italy, the early 19th century. A villa is the home of a small English community, all rich and superficial people lounging about in its beautiful surroundings. Claire, George's wife, and Robert, her son, are murdered by a mysterious killer. Thinking the murderer is one of the family, distraught George devises a plan to unmask the culprit. Having met a woman, Ann, who is a dead ringer for Claire, he takes her back to the villa and announces their imminent marriage. Ann is considered an outsider and treated with contempt and hostility, while George fails to find any significant clue to the solution: everybody is to be blamed, at least morally, but the final revelation is more bitter than expected...

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Run, Psycho, Run

Say Your Prayers... and Dig Your Grave! movie poster

Say Your Prayers... and Dig Your Grave!

Fernando returns home from his self chosen exile in Texas to get revenge for the death of his siblings. Instead he tries to start a revolution against the despotism of the landowners, but his relationship to his old friend Cipriano, who had turned in the meantime to a simple bandit, destroys his plans.

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Say Your Prayers... and Dig Your Grave!

Prescot (uncredited)

Four Came to Kill Sartana movie poster

Four Came to Kill Sartana

Seven masked bandits, whose chief calls himself "Mormon", kidnap young Susy, cousin of the mayor of Clayton City, Frank Clonny. Frank accepts the $15,000 ransom requested by the bandits and thinks of a plan which will permit him, with the help of Benson, the sheriff, to free his cousin, recover the money and capture the outlaws. The plan, though, is destined to fail, because one of the mayor's men, Donovan, allows the bandits to escape the trap. Benson then decides to call in Sartana, who the Mormon immediately tries to eliminate with the help of four killers: Buffalo, who kills with a bullwhip; Martinez, an expert knife thrower; Sullivan, a giant of incredible strength and Silky, a sly and fast gunslinger.

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Four Came to Kill Sartana

Prescot (uncredited)

Un colpo da Re movie poster

Un colpo da Re

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Production

Adios Compañeros movie poster

Adios Compañeros

Macho Callaghan is a lieutenant in the Federal Guards and his job is to capture Butch Cassidy, Ironhead, and their band of outlaws. Getting in touch with Ironhead, Macho finds a way of being hired by the outlaws. But when the two leaders quarrel and decide to separate, Macho manages to convince Ironhead to attack Butch Cassidy.

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Adios Compañeros

Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death movie poster

Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death

Barnet, a bandit, and the eight men of his band lie waiting in a Texan village. Having confined the people of the village to their homes, they rob the stagecoach which arrives in town carrying a cargo of US $ 100,000 in gold. After the robbery, the bandits take refuge in a deserted mine but a post officer, Dove Williams, is on their track.

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Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death

A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services movie poster

A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services

Cristina turns eighteen and leaves her bourgeois family to become a call-girl. But soon, her clients start turning up dead, their throats slashed. Who is responsible?

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A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services

Karzan, Jungle Lord movie poster

Karzan, Jungle Lord

Financed by Lord Carter and led by Captain Fox, an expedition is mounted to find and capture a jungle-man who lives in Africa.

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Karzan, Jungle Lord

Karzan, Jungle Lord movie poster

Karzan, Jungle Lord

Financed by Lord Carter and led by Captain Fox, an expedition is mounted to find and capture a jungle-man who lives in Africa.

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Karzan, Jungle Lord

Coffin Full of Dollars movie poster

Coffin Full of Dollars

There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico, where outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada Kid's family.

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Coffin Full of Dollars

His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria movie poster

His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria

Two brothers, Ray and Pot, exercise their bank robbing talents. They rob and get robbed in rapid succession. After acquiring a new partner (Steve) and accumulating a good haul, Ray is killed for the gold and Steve is captured by Lobo, a Mexican bandit.

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His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria

Anything for a Friend movie poster

Anything for a Friend

Two 'friends', Jonas and Mark, who live by cheating and squandering their money in saloons meet a crazy old man who tells them that gold has been discovered in the Rocky Mountains. The whole town moves, with dreams of becoming rich, but they are bitterly disappointed when on their way home they are robbed by Mulieta and his vicious gang of outlaws. Jonathan and Mark are spurred into action and decide to fight Mulieta's gang and retrive their gold.

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Anything for a Friend

And Now... Make Your Peace with God movie poster

And Now... Make Your Peace with God

Two men are on their way to Denver City to settle a personal score. One is looking for the murderer of his father, the other for a former friend who stole his gold. They're joined by a third person, a mysterious pistolero.

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And Now... Make Your Peace with God

And Now... Make Your Peace with God movie poster

And Now... Make Your Peace with God

Two men are on their way to Denver City to settle a personal score. One is looking for the murderer of his father, the other for a former friend who stole his gold. They're joined by a third person, a mysterious pistolero.

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And Now... Make Your Peace with God

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