Franco Rossi

Directeur, Scénariste

28 avril 1919 — 5 juin 2000 (81 ans)
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.

Connue pour

  • Les Complexés
    Les Complexés1965
  • L'odyssée
    L'odyssée8 épisodes
  • Amis pour la vie
    Amis pour la vie1955
  • Quo Vadis?
    Quo Vadis?6 épisodes
  • Virginité
    Virginité1976
  • Il seduttore
    Il seduttore1954
  • Un bambino di nome Gesù
    Un bambino di nome Gesù1988
  • Haute Infidélité
    Haute Infidélité1964
  • L'altra metà del cielo
    L'altra metà del cielo1977
  • Une rose pour tous
    Une rose pour tous1967
  • Le Retour d'Ivanhoé
    Le Retour d'Ivanhoé1971
  • Eneide
    Eneide7 épisodes
  • Odyssée nue
    Odyssée nue1961
  • Storia d'amore e d'amicizia
    Storia d'amore e d'amicizia6 épisodes
  • Je ne fais pas la guerre, je fais l'amour
    Je ne fais pas la guerre, je fais l'amour1966

Filmographie

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