# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sergio-leone
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:12:22.859Z

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name: "Sergio Leone"
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description: "He stretched gunfights into operatic standoffs, turned squints into drama, and made the American West feel more mythic by filming it in Spain. The spaghetti Western exists because Sergio Leone decided Hollywood had been doing it wrong."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Rome on 3 January 1929, Leone grew up in the machinery of Italian cinema and spent years learning before he seized the Western from America and reimagined it. A Fistful of Dollars arrived in 1964 with Clint Eastwood and a style no one had seen: extreme close-ups slammed against vast long shots, violence stretched into ritual. For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly followed in 1965 and 1966, cementing the Dollars Trilogy as a new language for the genre. He moved on to Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968, then Duck, You Sucker! in 1971, before spending over a decade assembling Once Upon a Time in America, released in 1984. Leone died on 30 April 1989, having bent an entire genre to his vision.