Offscreen Notes
Ferdinando Baldi (1917-2007)
Italian director of many important popular genre films, Ferdinando Baldi, passed away on November 12 at the age of 90. Some of Baldi’s best works include the spaghetti western Texas, Addio (1966), starring Franco Nero, one of the many Django spin-offs, Viva Django (1968), and The Sicilian Connection (1972). One of his last ‘public’ appearances was as himself interviewed in the documentary Spaghetti West (2005).
