Carlo Leva
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.
- Known for
- Art
- Born
- 1930-02-27 · Bergamasco, Italy
- Died
- 2020-04-04
Known for
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) — Assistant Art Director
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) — Set Decoration
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) — Assistant Art Director
- For a Few Dollars More (1965) — Assistant Art Director
- The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) — Production Design
- The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974) — Production Design
- Spirits of the Dead (1968) — Set Decoration
- The Big Gundown (1967) — Set Decoration
- The Knock Out Cop (1973) — Set Designer
- Sad Hill Unearthed (2018) — Self - Assistant Art Director (1966)
- The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972) — Set Decoration
- 32nd of December (1988) — Production Design
- The Bloodstained Shadow (1978) — Art Direction
- Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976) — Production Design
- The Price of Power (1969) — Production Design
- Destruction Force (1977) — Production Design