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Carlo Simi
Carlo Simi in For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Born
(1924-11-07)7 November 1924
Viareggio, Tuscany
Died
26 November 2000(2000-11-26) (aged 76)
Roma, Italy
Occupation(s)
Architect, production designer and costume designer
Awards
Nastro d'argento alla migliore scenografia (1985)
David di Donatello for Best Sets and Decorations (1992)
Carlo Simi (7 November 1924 – 26 November 2000) was an Italian architect, production designer and costume designer, who worked frequently with Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci, giving their Spaghetti Westerns a unique look. Most famous for his costume and set designs for Once Upon a Time in the West Simi also built the town of 'El Paso' in the Almería desert for Leone's second Western, For a Few Dollars More. Built around a massive bank, with vistas of the Tabernas Desert visible between buildings, the set still exists, as a tourist attraction called "Mini Hollywood".[1] Simi played the bank manager in that film: it was his only acting role.[2] He also designed the Sad Hill Cemetery for the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.[3]
Simi died in Rome in 2000. Some of his costumes and set designs were exhibited at the Autry National Center's Museum of the American West in Los Angeles in 2005. In 2018 he posthumously received the 'Leone in Memoriam' award by the Almería Western Film Festival for the 50 anniversary of Once Upon a Time in the West.[4]
^Frayling, Christopher (2006) [1981]. "Preface". Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. New York, United States: I.B. Tauris. p. ix. ISBN 1-84511-207-5.
^Neibaur, James L. (12 March 2015). The Clint Eastwood Westerns. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 19. ISBN 9781442245044.
^"El cementerio de Sad Hill". El Diario (in Spanish). 19 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
^D. M. (13 October 2018). "El Premio 'Leone in Memoriam' lo recibe la familia de Carlo Simi". Diario de Almería (in Spanish). Joly Digital. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
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to death by officer Eugene Brown. 1999-01-18 Bayer, Stephen California (Simi Valley) According to the Los Angeles Times, "A man described as depressed...
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