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Franco Giraldi

Franco Giraldi

Director · 1931–2020 · Comeno, Slovenia

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Biography

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. 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.

Directed 31

2000s

  1. 2002

    The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

    Director

  2. Voices

    Director

1990s

  1. 1999

    Buscando a Sherezade

    Director

  2. El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer

    Director

  3. 1997

    L'avvocato Porta

    Director

  4. 1996

    La frontiera

    Director

1980s

  1. 1984

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    Director

  2. Sabatoventiquattromarzo

    Director

1970s

  1. 1979

    La giacca verde

    Director

  2. 1977

    Un anno di scuola

    Director

  3. 1976

    Colpita da improvviso benessere

    Director

  4. 1975

    Il lungo viaggio

    Director

  5. 1973

    La rosa rossa

    Director

  6. 1972

    Orders are Orders

    Director

  7. 1971

    The Superwitness

    Director

  8. 1970

    Lonely Hearts

    Director

1960s

  1. 1968

    Baby Doll

    Director

  2. A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die

    Director

    62
  3. 1967

    Sugar Colt

    Director

    62

  4. Up the MacGregors

    Director

  5. 1966

    Seven Guns for the MacGregors

    Director

    54
  6. 1964

    The Constancy of Reason

    Assistant Director

  7. A Fistful of Dollars

    Assistant Director, Second Unit Director

    80

  8. Massacre At Grand Canyon

    Second Unit Director

  9. 1962

    The Slave

    Second Unit Director

  10. 1961

    Romulus and Remus

    Second Unit Director

    57

  11. Pigeon Shoot

    First Assistant Director

  12. 1960

    The Hunchback

    First Assistant Director

1950s

  1. 1958

    Piece of the Sky

    Script Supervisor

  2. 1957

    Men and Wolves

    Script Supervisor

  3. 1955

    Giovanna

    Assistant Director

Wrote 11

2000s

  1. 2002

    Voices

    Writer

1990s

  1. 1999

    Buscando a Sherezade

    Writer

  2. El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer

    Writer

  3. 1996

    La frontiera

    Writer

1970s

  1. 1975

    Il lungo viaggio

    Writers' Assistant

  2. 1970

    Lonely Hearts

    Writer

1960s

  1. 1968

    Baby Doll

    Screenplay, Writer

  2. 1967

    Sugar Colt

    Screenplay

    62

  3. Up the MacGregors

    Screenplay

  4. 1960

    The Apartment

    Writer

1950s

  1. 1959

    Nights of the Teddy Boys

    Screenplay

Created 1

1970s

  1. 1975

    Il lungo viaggio

    Creator

Appearances3

2010s

  1. 2010

    L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

    Self

2000s

  1. 2006

    Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

    Self

  2. 2003

    Italian Kings Of B

    Self