Born Giuseppe Tagliavia in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Roberto Mauri began his career as an actor in a series of low-budget films, occasionally also playing the lead role. He debuted as a director with the hostage drama Lost Souls (co-directed with Andrea Bianchi)

Mostly active between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Mauri specialised in the Italo-Western genre where he was often credited as Robert Johnson.

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The following interview was originally broadcast as part of the Stracult season on RAI in 2010.

English subtitles courtesy of Norwegian country-folk singer/fansubber Death Rock Wilson