Italian architect and designer
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 Almería desert for Leone's second Western, For a Few Dollars More Tabernas Desert visible between buildings, the set still exists, as a tourist attraction called "Mini Hollywood ".[ 1] [ 2] Sad Hill Cemetery for the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [ 3]
Simi died in Rome in 2000. Some of his costumes and set designs were exhibited at the Autry National Center's Museum of the American West in Los Angeles in 2005. In 2018 he posthumously received the 'Leone in Memoriam' award by the Almería Western Film Festival for the 50 anniversary of Once Upon a Time in the West [ 4]
Filmography
As actor
As costume designer
As production designer
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