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Franco Rossi

Franco Rossi

Director · Born 1919-04-28 · Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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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.

Directed

  1. The Two Missionaries (1974) — Director
  2. Complexes (1965) — Director
  3. The Witches (1967) — Director
  4. Caprice Italian Style (1968) — Director
  5. The Odyssey (1969) — Director
  6. The Dolls (1965) — Director
  7. The Seducer (1954) — Director
  8. The Odyssey (1968) — Director
  9. High Infidelity (1964) — Director
  10. A Child Called Jesus (1987) — Director
  11. Controsesso (1964) — Director
  12. Three Nights of Love (1964) — Director
  13. Quo Vadis? (1985) — Director
  14. L'altra metà del cielo (1977) — Director
  15. Friends for Life (1955) — Director
  16. Death of a Friend (1960) — Director
  17. Smog (1962) — Director
  18. Eneide (1971) — Director
  19. Pure as a Lily (1976) — Director
  20. Youth March (1969) — Director
  21. A Rose for Everyone (1967) — Director
  22. Make Love, Not War (1966) — Director
  23. Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini) (1993) — Director
  24. Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus (1987) — Director
  25. Solo per te Lucia (1952) — Director
  26. The Counterfeiters (1951) — Director
  27. Calypso (1957) — Director
  28. Odissea nuda (1961) — Director
  29. Scream for Help (1994) — Director
  30. Il giovane Garibaldi (1974) — Director