Biography
Sergio Donati (born 13 April 1933) is an Italian screenwriter. He has written for more than 70 films since 1952. He was born in Rome, Italy. He started as a writer and had some of his books optioned for film. He is well known for his collaboration with Italian director Sergio Leone, who encouraged him to take up screenwriting as a full-time career, and with Italian producer Dino de Laurentis.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ennio
2022
as Self
A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-...

The Sicilian Girl
2008
Writer
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to deno...

Il falso bugiardo
2008
as Self
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became b...

The Spaghetti West
2005
as Self
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
as Self - Screenwriter
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimoni...

Almost Blue
2000
Screenplay
A police inspector suspects a serial killer is afoot in the university city of Bologna, luring in his victims through online video chats before murder...

Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
2000
Screenplay
As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the child...

Ombre
1999
Writer
Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works toget...

Senza Movente
1999
Writer
Giallo based on the true crime of Rita Squeglia, who killed her lover and hid the body in a suitcase.

The Little Lord
1996
Writer
11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christ...

North Star
1996
Writer
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that...

Beyond Justice
1992
Writer
A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the l...

Desert Law
1991
Writer
Seul face au crime
1991
Writer

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990
Writer
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

Blowing Hot and Cold
1989
Screenplay
The story of two men from opposite backgrounds and social structures who become friends. Jack Phillips is a laid-back, wry service station proprietor ...

Too Beautiful to Die
1988
Screenplay
A group of high fashion models have been invited to an isolated house to attend a party. As the night wears on, one of the models falls victim to a de...

They Call Me Renegade
1987
Story
While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a ...

Man on Fire
1987
Screenplay
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...

Raw Deal
1986
Story
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief H...

Casablanca, Casablanca
1985
Screenplay, Story
Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found i...

Tit for Tat
1984
Screenplay
Fun adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger, a broken financial genius.

Hearts and Armour
1983
Screenplay, Story
Love during wartime blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. A sorceress p...

Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
1983
Story, Screenplay
Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic...

Count Tacchia
1982
Screenplay, Story
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows ...

Buddy Goes West
1981
Screenplay, Story
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doct...

Tough to Kill
1979
Writer
A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire fo...

A Dangerous Toy
1979
Story, Screenplay
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he...

Island of the Fishmen
1979
Screenplay
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a str...

Holocaust 2000
1977
Screenstory, Screenplay
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

Orca
1977
Screenplay
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherma...

The Fiend
1977
Story, Screenplay
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.

Italy is Rotten
1976
Screenplay, Story
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to...

The Boss and the Worker
1975
Screenplay, Story
Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.

Cry, Onion!
1975
Screenplay, Story
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted ...

Policewoman
1974
Screenplay, Story
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.

The Beast
1974
Story, Screenplay
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their gro...

Shoot First, Die Later
1974
Story
When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have d...

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973
Story, Screenplay
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of busine...

Mr. Hercules Against Karate
1973
Story, Screenplay
A skinny troublemaker and his good-natured, bemuscled sidekick find trouble in Hong Kong.

Il maschio ruspante
1973
Writer
Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love wi...

The Heroes
1973
Screenplay
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in b...

Slap the Monster on Page One
1972
Screenplay, Story
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid trie...

Too Much Gold for One Gringo
1972
Story
A bunch of outlaws awaits the release from prison of an old goldminer, believed to have hidden 28 sacks of gold 20 years before... They all want the o...

Ben & Charlie
1972
Screenplay
Also known as Ben & Charlie. When Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is there waiting for him. Not to welcome him, but to tell him that...

Duck, You Sucker
1971
Screenplay, Story
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert o...

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
1971
Writer
Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of ...

The Weekend Murders
1970
Screenplay, Story
An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbar...

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Screenplay
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the ...

Appointment in Beirut
1968
Screenplay
When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino police enlists the help of Jeff Miller, an alcoho...

Persecución hasta Valencia
1968
Screenplay

Seven Times Seven
1968
Writer
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.

Face to Face
1967
Screenplay
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher ...

Deadly Sweet
1967
Novel
Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because h...

Eine Handvoll Helden
1967
Writer
An episode from the war in 1806 when a small troop of Prussian soldiers digs in at a mill in order to defend itself against the overwhelming advance o...

Mission Stardust
1967
Screenplay
A team of astronauts is sent to the moon to rescue an alien who is seeking help to save her dying race. They are attacked by a force of bandit robots ...

The Big Gundown
1967
Screenplay
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
Additional Dialogue
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the Amer...

Requiem for a Secret Agent
1966
Screenplay
A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.

Web of Violence
1966
Novel
A journalist goes in search of his missing fiance.

Dollars for a Fast Gun
1966
Story, Screenplay
In a desert region, Martin, bound to a wheelchair, is served by a gang of desperados to collect rents and kill anybody who resists. Then Lassiter arri...

For a Few Dollars More
1965
Additional Writing
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

Shack and puppets
1954
An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this plane...

La nemica
1952
Screenplay