Director

Franco Rossi

Directing

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Strong directing catalog.

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2.1

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Directed movies: 21Directed series: 4All crew credits: 36

TMDB ID: 25317

IMDb ID: nm0744185

Known for: Directing

Born: April 28, 1919

Died: June 5, 2000

Age: 81

Place of birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1950 - 1993

Years active: 44

Average TMDB rating: 6.65

Wikidata: Q1040240

Also known as

Франко Росси

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Director (24)First Assistant Director (1)Screenplay (5)Production Supervisor (2)Writer (2)Production Secretary (1)Story (1)

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Biography

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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