Franco Rossi
Age: N/A | From: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Person Details
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Aliases: Франко Росси
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Movie Involvements: 49
TV Involvements: 11
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
The Two Missionaries
(1974) Screenplay
The Witches
(1967) Screenplay
Complexes
(1965) Director
Odissea
(1968) Director
The Dolls
(1965) Director
Quo Vadis?
(1985) Creator
Caprice Italian Style
(1968) Director
L'altra metà del cielo
(1977) StoryActing
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Writing
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| 1987 | Screenplay | |
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Creator
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| 1985 | Creator | |
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Production
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| 1975 | Production Supervisor | |
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| 1971 | Production Secretary | |
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Crew
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| 1959 | Supervising Technical Director | |
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