Franco Rossi

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-04-28 (81 years old)

Deathday

2000-06-05

Place of Birth

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Franco Rossi

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 (...

Production

1974

1974

1967

The Witches

as Director

1968

Odissea

as Director

1952

1964

High Infidelity

as Director

1951

1965

The Dolls

as Director

1954

The Seducer

as Director

1954

The Seducer

as Screenplay

1965

Complexes

as Director

1962

Smog

as Story

1957

Calypso

as Writer

1957

Calypso

as Director

1955

Friends for Life

as Director

1968

1962

Smog

as Director

1961

Odissea nuda

as Director

1961

Odissea nuda

as Writer

1964

1967

The Witches

as Story

1967

The Witches

as Screenplay

1977

1969

Youth March

as Director

1969

Youth March

as Screenplay

1994

Scream for Help

as Director

1960

Death of a Friend

as Screenplay

1954

The Seducer

as Story

1960

1976

Pure as a Lily

as Director

1959

Everyone's in Love

as Screenplay

1959

Everyone's in Love

as Supervising Technical Director

1950

The Outlaws

as First Assistant Director

1987

1967

1967

1962

Smog

as Screenplay

1975

La cognatina

as Production Supervisor

1953

La passeggiata

as Screenplay

1955

1964

Controsesso

as Director

1972

The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire

as Production Supervisor

1958

Love at First Sight

as Screenplay

1971

Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman

as Production Secretary

1976

Pure as a Lily

as Screenplay

1952

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