Franco Rossi

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1919-04-28 – 2000-06-05 · Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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.

• Gönüllü Kahramanlar (1974) — Director, Screenplay
• I complessi (1965) — Director
• Le streghe (1967) — Director, Story, Screenplay
• Capriccio all'italiana (1968) — Director
• Odissea (1969) — Director
• Le Bambole (1965) — Director
• Il seduttore (1954) — Director, Screenplay, Story
• Alta infedeltà (1964) — Director
• Un bambino di nome Gesú (1987) — Director
• Controsesso (1964) — Director
• 3 notti d'amore (1964) — Director
• Amici per la pelle (1955) — Director, Writer
• L'altra metà del cielo (1977) — Screenplay, Story, Director
• Il prode Anselmo e il suo scudiero (1972) — Production Supervisor
• Morte di un amico (1960) — Screenplay, Director
• Smog (1962) — Story, Director, Screenplay
• Yanıyorum (1975) — Production Supervisor
• Come una rosa al naso (1976) — Director, Screenplay
• Tutti Innamorati (1959) — Screenplay, Supervising Technical Director
• Giovinezza giovinezza (1969) — Director, Screenplay
• Una rosa per tutti (1967) — Director, Writer
• Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore (1966) — Director
• La spada normanna (1971) — Production Secretary
• Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini) (1993) — Director