Franco Giraldi
Directing
- Born
- July 11, 1931 · Comeno, Slovenia
- Died
- December 2, 2020 (age 89)
Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Born in Komen , Giraldi spent his childhood and adolescence between the Carso, Trieste and Gorizia. During the Second World War , still in minor age, he helped the Italian partisans.
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His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper L'Unità. Later Giraldi had the opportunity to work as assistant director of, among others, Gillo Pontecorvo, Giuseppe De Santis, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone . Shortly after his work with Leone in A Fistful of Dollars Giraldi directed his first Spaghetti Western, Seven Guns for the MacGregors , released in 1966.
After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of Frank Garfield and Frank Prestand, in 1968 Giraldi directed his first film with his real name, the commedia all'italiana La bambolona . After some other comedies he dedicated himself to literary adaptations.
Known for
A Fistful of Dollars
September 12, 1964
Romulus and Remus
December 6, 1961
The Slave
August 24, 1962
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
February 8, 1968
Sugar Colt
November 29, 1967
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
February 2, 1966
Orders are Orders
April 13, 1972
Baby Doll
December 15, 1968
The Superwitness
March 16, 1971
Lonely Hearts
January 22, 1970
Piece of the Sky
August 15, 1958
The Hunchback
November 30, 1960
Behind the camera34
- 2002The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops Director
- 2002Voices Director, Writer
- 1999Buscando a Sherezade Director, Writer
- 1999El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer Writer, Director
- 1998Entscheidung für die Liebe Director
- 1996La frontiera Writer, Director
- 1995Rome, November 12, 1994 Director
- 1984Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer Director
- 1984Sabatoventiquattromarzo Director
- 1979