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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.
Release Date | Title | Job | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
March 4th, 1977 | L'altra metà del cielo | Screenplay | 5.8 | |
March 4th, 1977 | L'altra metà del cielo | Story | 5.8 | |
March 11th, 1976 | Pure as a Lily | Screenplay | 4 | |
December 21st, 1974 | The Two Missionaries | Screenplay | 6.5 | |
September 10th, 1969 | Youth March | Screenplay | 8.3 | |
February 22nd, 1967 | The Witches | Screenplay | 6 | |
February 22nd, 1967 | The Witches | Story | 6 | |
January 18th, 1967 | A Rose for Everyone | Writer | 6 | |
October 4th, 1962 | Smog | Story | 6.3 | |
October 4th, 1962 | Smog | Screenplay | 6.3 | |
April 20th, 1961 | Odissea nuda | Writer | 10 | |
January 19th, 1960 | Death of a Friend | Screenplay | 6.6 | |
April 9th, 1959 | Everyone's in Love | Screenplay | 7 | |
April 17th, 1958 | Love at First Sight | Screenplay | 7 | |
February 22nd, 1957 | Calypso | Writer | 9 | |
September 16th, 1955 | Friends for Life | Writer | 7 | |
December 29th, 1954 | The Seducer | Screenplay | 6.5 | |
December 29th, 1954 | The Seducer | Story | 6.5 | |
January 27th, 1953 | La passeggiata | Screenplay | 8 | |
October 9th, 1952 | Solo per te Lucia | Writer | 10 |