Carlo Simi

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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

• For a Few Dollars More (1965) - El Paso Bank Manager (uncredited)

As costume designer

• Two Gangsters in the Wild West (1964)
• Bullets Don't Argue (1964)
• Minnesota Clay (1964)
• One Hundred Thousand Dollars for Lassiter (1966)
• Django (1966)
• Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966)
• Texas, Adios (1966)
• The Big Gundown (1966)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Face to Face (1967)
• Day of Anger (1967)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Sabata (film) (1969)
• Blood in the Streets
  (1973)
• Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket (1975)
• Keoma (1976)
• California (1977 film) (1977)
• Silver Saddle (1978)
• Fun is Beautiful (1980)

As production designer

• The Shortest Day (1963)
• Per il gusto di uccidere (1966)
• A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (1975)
• Bianco, rosso e Verdone (1981)
• They Call Me Renegade (1987)
• Where the Night Begins (1991)

References

External links

• Carlo Simi at
  IMDb
• Carlo Simi at AllMovie

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