CARLO LEVA
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Carlo Leva (27 February 1930 – 4 April 2020) was an Italian production designer.
After beginning his career as second assistant art director in Genoa on the set of The Walls of Malapaga, Leva studied Architecture in Rome, specializing in production design, costume design and set decoration for movies and advertising.
In 1962, Leva was hired as assistant art director on Robert Aldrich's Sodom and Gomorrah, where he met second unit director Sergio Leone, who later hired him as assistant art director on A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and as set decorator on Once Upon a Time in the West.[1] He befriended also director Enzo Muzii, with whom he worked on movies such as Something Like Love, and later worked with many other directors, such as Federico Fellini, Dario Argento (for The Cat o' Nine Tails) and Carol Reed.
In 2017, Leva took part in the documentary film Sad Hill Unearthed, narrating the reconstruction of the cemetery scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly..
- Emergency Squad 1974
- Il mistero di Bellavista 1985
- In a Colt's Shadow 1965
- So In Love 1964
- 32nd of December 1988
- Symphony of Love 1970
- I'm Not Worthy of You 1965
- The Price of Power 1969
- Amore mio 1964
- Stunt Squad 1977
- Mark Shoots First 1975
- Riavanti… Marsch! 1979
- A Girl Called Jules 1970
- Maria Zef 1981
- Don't Ever Leave Me 1965
- The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue 1974
- The Return of Halleluja 1972
- The Cat o' Nine Tails 1971