Franco Giraldi

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-07-11 (89 years old)

Deathday

2020-12-02

Place of Birth

Comeno, Slovenia

Franco Giraldi

Biography

Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Komen , Giraldi spent his childhood and adolescence between the Carso, Trieste and Gorizia. During the Second World War , still in minor age, he helped the Italian partisans. His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper L'Unità. Later Giraldi had the opportunity to work as assistant director of, among others, Gillo Pontecorvo, Giuseppe De Santis, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone . Shortly after his work with Leone in A Fistful of Dollars Giraldi directed his first Spaghetti Western...

Production

1996

La frontiera

as Director

1996

La frontiera

as Writer

1967

Sugar Colt

as Director

1957

Men and Wolves

as Script Supervisor

1961

Duel of the Titans

as Second Unit Director

1967

1967

Up the MacGregors

as Screenplay

1968

Baby Doll

as Director

1968

Baby Doll

as Screenplay

1971

The Superwitness

as Director

1967

Sugar Colt

as Screenplay

1970

Lonely Hearts

as Director

1970

Lonely Hearts

as Writer

1958

Piece of the Sky

as Script Supervisor

1964

Massacre At Grand Canyon

as Second Unit Director

1972

1999

1959

1961

Pigeon Shoot

as First Assistant Director

1960

The Apartment

as Writer

1964

A Fistful of Dollars

as Assistant Director

1962

The Slave

as Second Unit Director

1960

The Hunchback

as First Assistant Director

2002

Rumors

as Director

1964

The Constancy of Reason

as Assistant Director

1955

Giovanna

as Assistant Director

1968

Baby Doll

as Writer

1977

1979

La giacca verde

as Director

1973

La rosa rossa

as Director

1964

A Fistful of Dollars

as Second Unit Director

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