Carlo Leva

from Bergamasco, Italy

Artwork for Sad Hill Unearthed

Biography

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.

Timeline

2018Aged 88

  • Poster for Sad Hill Unearthed

    Self - Assistant Art Director (1966)

2004Aged 74

  • Poster for Por un puñado de sueños

    Self - Interviewee

2001Aged 71

  • Poster for Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

    Self - Art Director

1995Aged 65

  • Poster for Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret

    (Unknown)

1994Aged 64

1993Aged 63

  • Poster for Dark Friday

    Art Direction

1988Aged 58

  • Poster for 32nd of December

    Production Design

1985Aged 55

  • Poster for Il Mistero di Bellavista

    Production Design

1981Aged 51

  • Poster for Maria Zef

    Set Decoration

1979Aged 49

  • Poster for Riavanti… Marsch!

    Production Design

1978Aged 48

  • Poster for The Bloodstained Shadow

    Costume Design

1977Aged 47

  • Poster for Destruction Force

    Production Design

  • Poster for Stunt Squad

    Production Design

1976Aged 46

  • Poster for Free Hand for a Tough Cop

    Production Design

  • Poster for Mark Strikes Again

    Production Design

1975Aged 45

  • Poster for Mark Shoots First

    Costume Design

1974Aged 44

  • Poster for Emergency Squad

    Production Design

  • Poster for The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

    Production Design

1973Aged 43

  • Poster for Ingrid on the Road

    Costume Design

  • Poster for The Counsellor

    Costume Design

  • Poster for The Knock Out Cop

    Set Designer

1972Aged 42

  • Poster for The Case of the Bloody Iris

    Set Decoration

  • Poster for The Return of Halleluja

    Set Decoration

1971Aged 41

  • Poster for Per amore o per forza

    Costume Design

  • Poster for The Cat o' Nine Tails

    Costume Design

1970Aged 40

  • Poster for Una macchia rosa

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for A Girl Called Jules

    Production Design

  • Poster for Symphony of Love

    Costume Design

1969Aged 39

  • Poster for The Price of Power

    Production Design

1968Aged 38

  • Poster for Spirits of the Dead

    Set Decoration

  • Poster for Once Upon a Time in the West

    Set Decoration

1967Aged 37

  • Poster for The Big Gundown

    Set Decoration

  • Poster for Desert Commandos

    Set Decoration

1966Aged 36

  • Poster for You'll See Me Returning

    Production Design

  • Poster for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Assistant Art Director

1965Aged 35

  • Poster for I'm Not Worthy of You

    Production Design

  • Poster for Don't Ever Leave Me

    Production Design

  • Poster for In a Colt's Shadow

    Production Design

  • Poster for For a Few Dollars More

    Assistant Art Director

1964Aged 34

  • Poster for Amore mio

    Production Design

  • Poster for A Fistful of Dollars

    Assistant Art Director

  • Poster for So In Love

    Set Decoration

  • Poster for The Revenge of the Crusader

    Costume Design

1963Aged 33

  • Poster for I terribili sette

    Production Design

  • Poster for Crazy Sea

    Set Decoration