# Tonino Delli Colli

Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer.

## Biography

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).
Although Della Colli did not work regularly with Lina Wertmuller, his cinematography for Pasqualino Settebelleze (Seven Beauties) was a major career highlight.
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.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1944 | Finalmente sì | Ladislao Kish | |
| 1946 | O sole mio | Giacomo Gentilomo | With Anchise Brizzi |
| 1946 | Paese senza pace | Leo Menardi Carlo Lodovici | |
| 1946 | Felicità perduta | Filippo Walter Ratti | With Romolo Garroni |
| 1946 | Trepidazione | Toni Frenguelli | |
| 1947 | Nada | Edgar Neville | Uncredited |
| 1948 | L'isola di Montecristo | Mario Sequi | |
| 1949 | City of Pain | Mario Bonnard | |
| 1949 | A Night of Fame | Mario Monicelli Steno | With Leonida Barboni |
| 1949 | Hand of Death | Carlo Campogalliani | |
| 1950 | La strada buia | Marino Girolami Sidney Salkow | |
| 1950 | Alina | Giorgio Pastina | |
| 1950 | The Vow | Mario Bonnard | |
| 1951 | The Rival of the Empress | Jacopo Comin Sidney Salkow | With Erwin Hillier |
| 1951 | I'm the Capataz | Giorgio Simonelli | |
| 1951 | Milano miliardaria | Marino Girolami Marcello Marchesi Vittorio Metz | |
| 1951 | Accidents to the Taxes!! | Mario Mattoli | |
| 1951 | Toto the Third Man | Mario Mattoli | |
| 1951 | Era lui... sì! sì! | Marino Girolami Marcello Marchesi Vittorio Metz | With Vincenzo Seratrice |
| 1951 | The Steamship Owner | Mario Mattoli | |
| 1952 | Toto in Color | Steno | |
| 1952 | The Three Pirates | Mario Soldati | |
| 1952 | Toto and the Women | Mario Monicelli Steno | |
| 1952 | Brothers of Italy | Fausto Saraceni | |
| 1953 | Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair | Mario Soldati | |
| 1953 | Gioventù alla sbarra | Ferruccio Cerio | |
| 1953 | Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | With Mario Albertelli |
| 1953 | The Pagans | Ferruccio Cerio | |
| 1953 | I Always Loved You | Mario Costa | |
| 1954 | Mid-Century Loves | Glauco Pellegrini Pietro Germi Mario Chiari Roberto Rossellini Antonio Pietrangeli | |
| 1954 | Where Is Freedom? | Roberto Rossellini | With Aldo Tonti |
| 1954 | Concert of Intrigue | Mario Bonnard | |
| 1954 | The Shadow | Giorgio Bianchi | |
| 1954 | Red and Black | Domenico Paolella | |
| 1955 | Le signorine dello 04 | Gianni Franciolini | |
| 1955 | The White Angel | Raffaello Matarazzo | |
| 1955 | Accadde al penitenziario | Giorgio Bianchi | |
| 1955 | The Letters Page | Steno | |
| 1956 | The Intruder | Raffaello Matarazzo | |
| 1956 | Donatella | Mario Monicelli | |
| 1956 | Una voce, una chitarra, un po' di luna | Giacomo Gentilomo | |
| 1957 | Poor, But Handsome | Dino Risi | |
| 1957 | Oh! Sabella | Dino Risi | |
| 1957 | Susanna Whipped Cream | Steno | With Marco Scarpelli |
| 1957 | Femmine tre volte | Steno | |
| 1957 | Seven Hills of Rome | Roy Rowland | |
| 1957 | Pretty But Poor | Dino Risi | |
| 1958 | Adorabili e bugiarde | Nunzio Malasomma | |
| 1958 | Venice, the Moon and You | Dino Risi | |
| 1959 | First Love | Mario Camerini | |
| 1959 | Marinai, donne e guai | Giorgio Simonelli | With Alejandro Ulloa |
| 1959 | The Friend of the Jaguar | Giuseppe Bennati | |
| 1959 | Poor Millionaires | Dino Risi | |
| 1959 | Le cameriere | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | |
| 1960 | Morgan the Pirate | Andre de Toth Primo Zeglio | |
| 1961 | The Thief of Baghdad | Arthur Lubin | |
| 1961 | Accattone | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1961 | The Wonders of Aladdin | Henry Levin Mario Bava | |
| 1962 | I nuovi angeli | Ugo Gregoretti | |
| 1962 | La monaca di Monza | Carmine Gallone | |
| 1962 | Mamma Roma | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1962 | Swordsman of Siena | Étienne Périer Baccio Bandini | |
| 1963 | La bella di Lodi | Mario Missiroli | |
| 1963 | The Executioner | Luis García Berlanga | |
| 1964 | Liolà | Alessandro Blasetti | With Leonida Barboni and Carlo Di Palma |
| 1964 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1965 | The Camp Followers | Valerio Zurlini | |
| 1965 | The Mandrake | Alberto Lattuada | |
| 1966 | The Hawks and the Sparrows | Pier Paolo Pasolini | With Mario Bernardo |
| 1966 | Les Sultans | Jean Delannoy | |
| 1966 | Andremo in città | Nelo Risi | |
| 1966 | Target for Killing | Manfred R. Köhler | With Siegfried Hold |
| 1966 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Sergio Leone | |
| 1967 | China Is Near | Marco Bellocchio | |
| 1967 | Ghosts – Italian Style | Renato Castellani | |
| 1968 | The Day of the Owl | Damiano Damiani | |
| 1968 | OSS 117 – Double Agent | Jean-Pierre Desagnat Renzo Cerrato André Hunebelle | |
| 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | |
| 1969 | Metti, una sera a cena | Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | |
| 1969 | Pigsty | Pier Paolo Pasolini | With Armando Nannuzzi and Giuseppe Ruzzolini |
| 1970 | Rosolino Paternò, soldato... | Nanni Loy | With Riccardo Pallottini |
| 1970 | Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You | Rod Amateau | |
| 1971 | The Decameron | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1971 | Man of the Year | Marco Vicario | |
| 1971 | Come Together | Saul Swimmer | |
| 1972 | Pilgrimage | Beni Montresor | |
| 1972 | The Canterbury Tales | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1972 | The Master Touch | Michele Lupo | |
| 1973 | Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears | Paolo Cavara | |
| 1973 | Bawdy Tales | Sergio Citti | |
| 1973 | The Sensual Man | Marco Vicario | |
| 1974 | Lovers and Other Relatives | Salvatore Samperi | |
| 1974 | Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | |
| 1974 | Till Marriage Do Us Part | Luigi Comencini | |
| 1975 | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1975 | Seven Beauties | Lina Wertmüller | |
| 1976 | Caro Michele | Mario Monicelli | |
| 1977 | The Forbidden Room | Dino Risi | |
| 1977 | The Purple Taxi | Yves Boisset | |
| 1977 | Beach House | Sergio Citti | |
| 1977 | I nuovi mostri | Dino Risi Ettore Scola Mario Monicelli | |
| 1978 | First Love | Dino Risi | |
| 1978 | Blood Feud | Lina Wertmüller | |
| 1979 | Lovers and Liars | Mario Monicelli | |
| 1979 | Dear Father | Dino Risi | |
| 1980 | Hurricane Rosy | Mario Monicelli | |
| 1980 | I'm Photogenic | Dino Risi | |
| 1981 | Camera d'albergo | Mario Monicelli | |
| 1981 | Fantasma d'amore | Dino Risi | |
| 1981 | Tales of Ordinary Madness | Marco Ferreri | |
| 1983 | Trenchcoat | Michael Tuchner | |
| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography |
| 1984 | The Future Is Woman | Marco Ferreri | |
| 1984 | Notti e nebbie | Marco Tullio Giordana | TV movie |
| 1986 | Ginger and Fred | Federico Fellini | With Ennio Guarnieri |
| 1986 | The Name of the Rose | Jean-Jacques Annaud | |
| 1987 | Intervista | Federico Fellini | |
| 1988 | Stradivari | Giacomo Battiato | |
| 1990 | The Voice of the Moon | Federico Fellini | |
| 1990 | The African Woman | Margarethe von Trotta | |
| 1991 | A Simple Story | Emidio Greco | |
| 1992 | Bitter Moon | Roman Polanski | |
| 1993 | La Soif de l'or | Gérard Oury | |
| 1994 | Death and the Maiden | Roman Polanski | |
| 1995 | Facciamo paradiso | Mario Monicelli | |
| 1997 | Marianna Ucrìa | Roberto Faenza | |
| 1997 | Life Is Beautiful | Roberto Benigni | |

### Documentary film

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1952 | Gli 11 moschettieri | Ennio De Concini Fausto Saraceni | |
| 1957 | Questo nostro mondo | Ugo Lazzarini Eros Macchi Angelo Negri | With Massimo Dallamano, Paolo Gregori, Alvaro Mancori and Gian Maria Rimoldi |
| 1960 | Il mondo di notte | Luigi Vanzi | |
| 1964 | Love Meetings | Pier Paolo Pasolini | With Mario Bernardo |
| 1971 | Le mura di Sana'a | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Documentary short |
| 1994 | Cento di questi anni | Corrado Farina | Documentary short |

### Short film

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1963 | La ricotta | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Segment of Ro.Go.Pa.G. |
| 1964 | Amore e arte | Gianni Puccini | Segments of Amore in 4 dimensioni |
| 1964 | Amore e morte | Mino Guerrini | Segments of Amore in 4 dimensioni |
| 1964 | La Feuille de route | Ugo Gregoretti | Segment of The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers |
| 1964 | Il generale | Alfredo Giannetti | Segment of Amori pericolosi |
| 1964 | La doccia | Massimo Franciosa | Segment of Extraconiugale |
| 1968 | Che cosa sono le nuvole? | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1968 | William Wilson | Louis Malle | Segment of Spirits of the Dead |
| 1968 | Che cosa sono le nuvole? | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Segment of Caprice Italian Style |
| 1980 | Armando's Notebook | Dino Risi | Segment of Les séducteurs |
| 1991 | Il cane blu | Giuseppe Bertolucci | Segment of Especially on Sunday |
| 1996 | Sanpellegrino Calze | Giuseppe Tornatore | |