---
name: "Carlo Simi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carlo-simi"
fi1m_id: "carlo-simi"
imdb_id: "nm0799495"
tmdb_id: 4655
wikidata_id: "Q438256"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "8 November 1924"
died: "26 November 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 87
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T06:48:48.484420+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Carlo Simi

## Identity

Carlo Simi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carlo-simi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** carlo-simi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0799495
- **TMDB ID:** 4655
- **Wikidata ID:** Q438256
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Simi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438256, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799495/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4655

Production designer. Born 8 November 1924 in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy. Died 26 November 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 8 November 1924, Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy
- **Died:** 26 November 2000
- **Active:** 1965–1984
- **Also known as:** Giancarlo Simi
- **Frequently works with:** [Sergio Leone](https://film.one/person/sergio-leone.md), [Alberto Grimaldi](https://film.one/person/alberto-grimaldi.md), [Clint Eastwood](https://film.one/person/clint-eastwood.md), [Lee Van Cleef](https://film.one/person/lee-van-cleef.md), [Luciano Vincenzoni](https://film.one/person/luciano-vincenzoni.md), [Luigi Pistilli](https://film.one/person/luigi-pistilli.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 89 (3), 1980s 81 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 87 to 81 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Western 3, Drama 2, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $65m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Simi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438256, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799495/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4655

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Good, the Bad and the Ugly*](https://film.one/film/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.md) (92)
- **Apple TV:** [*For a Few Dollars More*](https://film.one/film/for-a-few-dollars-more.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Carlo Simi (7 November 1924 – 26 November 2000) was an Italian architect, production designer and costume designer. He worked regularly with Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci on spaghetti westerns.

His credits include costume design on *For a Few Dollars More* (1965) and both costume design and production design on *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* (1966) and *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968). He built the El Paso town set in Almería for *For a Few Dollars More*, which still exists as the tourist attraction Mini Hollywood, and designed the Sad Hill cemetery for *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly*. Simi had an uncredited acting role as the bank manager in *For a Few Dollars More*.

He received the Nastro d'Argento for best production design in 1985 and a David di Donatello for best production design in 1992. A posthumous Leone in Memoriam award was given in 2018.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Once Upon a Time in America* (1984), Fi1m 81, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-america.md)
- *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), Fi1m 91, Set Decoration, Production design, Costume Designer, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.md)
- *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* (1966), Fi1m 92, Production Design, Costume Design, Production design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.md)
- *For a Few Dollars More* (1965), Fi1m 85, as El Paso Bank Manager (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/for-a-few-dollars-more.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sad Hill Unearthed* (2018), In Memory Of
- *Brothers and Sisters* (1992), Production Design
- *Bix* (1991), Production Design
- *Renegade* (1987), Production Design
- *Once Upon a Time in America* (1984), as Art Direction — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-america.md)
- *Bianco, rosso e Verdone* (1981), Production Design
- *Fun Is Beautiful* (1980), Production Design, Costume Design
- *California* (1977), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Keoma* (1976), Production Design, Costume Design
- *A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot* (1975), Production Design, Art Direction
- *Revolver* (1973), Costume Design, Production Design
- *Sabata* (1969), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), Production Design, Costume Designer, Set Decoration — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.md)
- *Go For Broke* (1968), Production Design
- *Day of Anger* (1967), Costume Design
- *Face to Face* (1967), Costume Design, Art Direction
- *The Big Gundown* (1967), Costume Design, Set Decoration
- *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* (1966), Costume Design, Production Design — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.md)
- *Taste of Killing* (1966), Production Design
- *Ringo and His Golden Pistol* (1966), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Django* (1966), Production Design, Costume Design
- *For a Few Dollars More* (1965), as El Paso Bank Manager (uncredited) · Costume Design, Settings — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/for-a-few-dollars-more.md)
- *Minnesota Clay* (1964), Costume Design, Production Design
- *A Fistful of Dollars* (1964), as Art Direction, Set Decoration · Costumer
- *Bullets Don't Argue* (1964), as Art Direction · Costume Design
- *Two Gangsters in the Wild West* (1964), Costume Design
- *The Shortest Day* (1963), Production Design
- *Romulus and Remus* (1961), as Set Decoration
- *Goliath and the Vampires* (1961), Production Design

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