Directing · geboren 1919-04-28 · Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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.

Bekannt aus

• Zwei Missionare (1974) – Screenplay
• Einmal zu wenig, einmal zu viel (1965) – Director
• Hexen von heute (1967) – Director
• Capriccio all'italiana (1968) – Director
• Die Odyssee (1969) – Director
• Die Odyssee (1968) – Director
• Die Puppen (1965) – Director
• Il seduttore (1954) – Director
• Alta infedeltà (1964) – Director
• Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus (1987) – Director
• Controsesso (1964) – Director
• Quo Vadis? (1985) – Director
• Drei Liebesnächte (1964) – Director
• Freunde fürs Leben (1955) – Director
• Hihihilfe, sie liebt mich (1977) – Screenplay
• Il prode Anselmo e il suo scudiero (1972) – Production Supervisor
• Morte di un amico (1960) – Screenplay
• Smog (1962) – Story
• Hot Summer (1975) – Production Supervisor
• Die Äneis (1971) – Director
• Ramba Zamba bei der Mafia! (1976) – Director
• Tutti Innamorati (1959) – Supervising Technical Director
• Giovinezza giovinezza (1969) – Screenplay
• Geh ins Bett, nicht in den Krieg (1966) – Director
• Una rosa per tutti (1967) – Director
• Das normannische Schwert (1971) – Production Secretary
• Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini) (1993) – Director
• I fuorilegge (1950) – First Assistant Director
• Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus (1987) – Director
• Solo per te Lucia (1952) – Director
• I falsari (1951) – Director
• Calypso (1957) – Writer
• Odissea nuda (1961) – Director
• Schrei nach Hilfe (1994) – Director
• La passeggiata (1953) – Screenplay
• Amore a prima vista (1958) – Screenplay
• Il giovane Garibaldi (1974) – Writer
• Storia d'amore e d'amicizia (1982) – Director