Franco Rossi
Directing
Born 1919-04-28
Died 2000-06-05
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
37 credits
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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.
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Filmography
Directing
29 credits
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
Eneide
The Two Missionaries
Quo Vadis?
The Witches
Il giovane Garibaldi
Complexes
High Infidelity
The Dolls
Calypso
Caprice Italian Style
Odissea nuda
Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
Pure as a Lily
A Rose for Everyone
Smog
Make Love, Not War
Controsesso
Friends for Life
A Child Called Jesus
The Seducer
The Counterfeiters
Three Nights of Love
Death of a Friend
Scream for Help
Youth March
Solo per te Lucia
Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini)
Writing
20 credits
Eneide
The Two Missionaries
Quo Vadis?
The Witches
Il giovane Garibaldi
Calypso
Odissea nuda
Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
Pure as a Lily
A Rose for Everyone
L'altra metà del cielo
Love at First Sight
Smog
Friends for Life
The Seducer
Everyone's in Love
La passeggiata
Death of a Friend
Youth March
Solo per te Lucia
Acting
4 credits
Other credits
1 credit
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