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ABOUT
Legendary Italian film director best known for directing the classic spaghetti Western films A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, all of which starred the great Clint Eastwood.He turned down a chance to direct The Godfather in order to film the last feature of his career, the 1984 crime epic Once Upon a Time in America starring Robert De Niro. It was the third film in his Once Upon a Time trilogy.After making three Westerns with Eastwood, he went on to direct another classic Western, the 1968 feature Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale.
BEFORE FAMEHe worked as an film assistant to director Vittorio De Sica on the 1948 neorealism film Bicycle Thieves.
PERSONAL LIFEHe had three children named Francesca, Raffaella and Andrea with his wife Carla Leone.
The meaning of the name Leone: Lion FUN FACTSDirector Sergio Leone were born on Thursday, birthstone is Garnet, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Snake, it is 363 days until Sergio Leone next birthday.
