Film writer, director and producer, was born in Baldwin, USA on 22 February 1944. Son of an actress and hotelier, Jonathan spent the first years of his childhood in New York. The family moved to Miami when he was fifteen. Initially he wanted to be a veterinary surgeon. He enrolled at the University of Florida and started writing film reviews in the college magazine. He later abandoned university and attempted to break into the film world.
Born in Rome on 10 November 1928, remains one of Italy's foremost composers. He is renowned for the huge number of film scores he has written (almost 500 of them), thirty of which are for westerns. This latter genre is the reason for Morricone's worldwide fame. To give just one statistic- Morricone has sold more then 50 million albums.
Lino Banfi is the stage name of Pasquale Zagaria, born in Andria, province of Bari, in 1937. He is one of the most loved and celebrated names in the history of Italian film comedy. His interest in theatre began when he was a boy and he launched his acting career in 1954 when he moved to Milan and developed a curtain raiser act under the name of Lino Zaga.
