Franco Giraldi
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 11, 1931
- Died
- December 2, 2020 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Comeno, Slovenia
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.
Known For
Filmography
Voices
Movie · Director
The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
Movie · Director
El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer
Movie · Director
Buscando a Sherezade
Movie · Director
Entscheidung für die Liebe
Movie · Director
L'avvocato Porta
TV · Director · 8 eps
La frontiera
Movie · Director
Rome, November 12, 1994
Movie · Director
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Movie · Director
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
Movie · Director
La giacca verde
Movie · Director
Un anno di scuola
Movie · Director
Colpita da improvviso benessere
Movie · Director
Il lungo viaggio
TV · Director · 4 eps
La rosa rossa
Movie · Director
Orders are Orders
Movie · Director
The Superwitness
Movie · Director
Lonely Hearts
Movie · Director
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Movie · Director
Baby Doll
Movie · Director
Sugar Colt
Movie · Director
Up the MacGregors
Movie · Director
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Movie · Director
Massacre At Grand Canyon
Movie · Second Unit Director
A Fistful of Dollars
Movie · Assistant Director, Second Unit Director
The Constancy of Reason
Movie · Assistant Director
The Slave
Movie · Second Unit Director
Romulus and Remus
Movie · Second Unit Director
Pigeon Shoot
Movie · First Assistant Director
The Hunchback
Movie · First Assistant Director
Piece of the Sky
Movie · Script Supervisor
Men and Wolves
Movie · Script Supervisor
Giovanna
Movie · Assistant Director