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Franco Rossi
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-Swis…
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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.
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1994
Scream for Help
Movie Director
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1993
Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini)
Movie Director
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1987
Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
TV show Director
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1987
A Child Called Jesus
Movie Director
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1985
Quo Vadis?
TV show Director
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1982
Storia d'amore e d'amicizia
TV show Director
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1977
L'altra metà del cielo
Movie Screenplay
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1976
Pure as a Lily
Movie Director
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1975
La cognatina
Movie Production Supervisor
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1974
The Two Missionaries
Movie Screenplay
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1974
Il giovane Garibaldi
TV show Writer
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1972
The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire
Movie Production Supervisor
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1971
Eneide
TV show Director
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1971
Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman
Movie Production Secretary
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1969
Youth March
Movie Screenplay
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1969
The Odyssey
Movie Director
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1968
Caprice Italian Style
Movie Director
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1968
The Odyssey
TV show Director
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1967
The Witches
Movie Director
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1967
A Rose for Everyone
Movie Director
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1966
Make Love, Not War
Movie Director
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1965
Complexes
Movie Director
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1965
The Dolls
Movie Director
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1964
Controsesso
Movie Director
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1964
Three Nights of Love
Movie Director
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1964
High Infidelity
Movie Director
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1962
Smog
Movie Story
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1961
Odissea nuda
Movie Director
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1960
Death of a Friend
Movie Screenplay
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1959
Everyone's in Love
Movie Supervising Technical Director
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1958
Love at First Sight
Movie Screenplay
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1957
Calypso
Movie Writer
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1955
Friends for Life
Movie Director
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1954
The Seducer
Movie Director
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1953
La passeggiata
Movie Screenplay
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1952
Solo per te Lucia
Movie Director
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1951
The Counterfeiters
Movie Director
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1950
The Outlaws
Movie First Assistant Director
