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, Seven Guns for the MacGregors , released in 1966. After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of Frank Garfield and Frank Prestand, in 1968 Giraldi directed his first film with his real name, the commedia all'italiana La bambolona . After some other comedies he dedicated himself to literary adaptations.

Directed

1. A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1968) — Director
2. Sugar Colt (1967) — Director
3. Seven Guns for the MacGregors (1966) — Director
4. Orders are Orders (1972) — Director
5. Baby Doll (1968) — Director
6. The Superwitness (1971) — Director
7. Lonely Hearts (1970) — Director
8. Up the MacGregors (1967) — Director
9. Colpita da improvviso benessere (1976) — Director
10. Buscando a Sherezade (1999) — Director
11. Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984) — Director
12. Voices (2002) — Director
13. La rosa rossa (1973) — Director
14. L'avvocato Porta (1997) — Director
15. La frontiera (1996) — Director
16. El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer (1999) — Director
17. Un anno di scuola (1977) — Director
18. La giacca verde (1979) — Director
19. Rome, November 12, 1994 (1995) — Director
20. The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops (2002) — Director
21. Sabatoventiquattromarzo (1984) — Director
22. Il lungo viaggio (1975) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things (2006) — Self
2. L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010) — Self
3. Western all'italiana (2004)
4. Italian Kings Of B (2003) — Self