Franco Rossi

Instruktør, Forfatter

28. april 1919 — 5. juni 2000 (81 år)
Franco Rossi (19 April 1919, Florence – 5 June 2000, Rome) was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six-hour Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985.

Rossi was born in Florence, Italy. He studied law and then began to work on theatre. He was assistant director of Mario Camerini, Luis Trenker, Renato Castellani, Aldo Vergano. Rossi made his debut as a director with the crime thriller I Falsari. He went on to have his first success with Il seduttore, starring by Alberto Sordi, and among Rossi's other films were The Woman in the Painting (Amici per la pelle, 1955), Odissea Nuda (1961), "Smog" (1962), Three Nights of Love (1964), an episode of Le bambole (1965), and Porgi l'altra guancia with Bud Spencer in (1974).

Rossi was one of the first established Italian film directors also doing work for television, being one of the three directors for the 1968 mini-series L'Odissea. His largest TV undertaking was directing the international co-production of the six-hour mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985.

Kendt for

  • The Odyssey (1968)
    The Odyssey (1968)8 episoder
  • I complessi
    I complessi1965
  • Venner for livet
    Venner for livet1955
  • Quo Vadis?
    Quo Vadis?6 episoder
  • Pure as a Lily
    Pure as a Lily1976
  • Il seduttore
    Il seduttore1954
  • Un bambino di nome Gesù
    Un bambino di nome Gesù1988
  • L'altra metà del cielo
    L'altra metà del cielo1977
  • En rose til hver
    En rose til hver1967
  • High Infidelity
    High Infidelity1964
  • Death of a Friend
    Death of a Friend1960
  • Ivanhoe
    Ivanhoe1971
  • Nude Odyssey
    Nude Odyssey1961
  • Storia d'amore e d'amicizia
    Storia d'amore e d'amicizia6 episoder
  • Make Love, Not War
    Make Love, Not War1966
  • La cognatina
    La cognatina1975

Filmografi

1988
Un bambino di nome Gesù · as Screenplay
1985
Quo Vadis? · as Screenplay
1977
L'altra metà del cielo · as Screenplay
1976
Pure as a Lily · as Screenplay
1974
Turn the Other Cheek · as Screenplay
1971
Eneide · as Screenplay
1967
The Witches · as Screenplay
1967
1961
1960
1960
Death of a Friend · as Screenplay
1959
Everyone's in Love · as Screenplay
1958
Love at First Sight · as Screenplay
1955
1954
Il seduttore · as Screenplay

1975
La cognatina · as Production Supervisor
1972
The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire · as Production Supervisor
1971
Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman · as Production Secretary
1962
Smog · as Story