Franco Rossi

Director, Escritor

28 de abril de 1919 — 5 de junio de 2000 (81 años)
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.

Conocido por

  • Las aventuras de Ulises
    Las aventuras de Ulises8 episodes
  • Los complejos
    Los complejos1965
  • Inolvidable amistad
    Inolvidable amistad1955
  • Quo Vadis?
    Quo Vadis?6 episodes
  • Virginidad
    Virginidad1976
  • Il seduttore
    Il seduttore1954
  • Un niño llamado Jesús
    Un niño llamado Jesús1988
  • La otra mitad del cielo
    La otra mitad del cielo1977
  • Una rosa para todos
    Una rosa para todos1967
  • Alta infidelidad
    Alta infidelidad1964
  • Muerte de un amigo
    Muerte de un amigo1960
  • La espada normanda
    La espada normanda1971
  • Odisea desnuda
    Odisea desnuda1961
  • Historia de amor y amistad
    Historia de amor y amistad6 episodes
  • No hago la guerra... prefiero el amor
    No hago la guerra... prefiero el amor1966
  • La cuñadita
    La cuñadita1975

Filmography

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