Franco Rossi
Franco Rossi (19 April 1919 – 5 June 2000) 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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Films (32)
Scream for Help
1994 · Director
Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini)
1993 · Director
A Child Called Jesus
1987 · Director
L'altra metà del cielo
1977 · Screenplay, Story, Director
Pure as a Lily
1976 · Director, Screenplay
La cognatina
1975 · Production Supervisor
The Two Missionaries
1974 · Screenplay, Director
The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire
1972 · Production Supervisor
Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman
1971 · Production Secretary
Youth March
1969 · Director, Screenplay
The Odyssey
1969 · Director
Caprice Italian Style
1968 · Director
The Witches
1967 · Director, Screenplay, Story
A Rose for Everyone
1967 · Writer, Director
Make Love, Not War
1966 · Director
Complexes
1965 · Director
The Dolls
1965 · Director
Controsesso
1964 · Director
Three Nights of Love
1964 · Director
High Infidelity
1964 · Director
Smog
1962 · Story, Director, Screenplay
Odissea nuda
1961 · Director, Writer
Death of a Friend
1960 · Screenplay, Director
Everyone's in Love
1959 · Supervising Technical Director, Screenplay
Love at First Sight
1958 · Screenplay
Calypso
1957 · Writer, Director
Friends for Life
1955 · Director, Writer
The Seducer
1954 · Director, Screenplay, Story
La passeggiata
1953 · Screenplay
Solo per te Lucia
1952 · Director, Writer
The Counterfeiters
1951 · Director
The Outlaws
1950 · First Assistant Director
