Franco Giraldi
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 11, 1931, Comeno, Slovenia
- Died
- December 2, 2020
- Movies
- 28
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2002 | The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops | Director |
| 2002 | Voices | Director, Writer |
| 1999 | Buscando a Sherezade | Director, Writer |
| 1999 | El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer | Director, Writer |
| 1998 | Entscheidung für die Liebe | Director |
| 1996 | La frontiera | Writer, Director |
| 1995 | Rome, November 12, 1994 | Director |
| 1984 | Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer | Director |
| 1984 | Sabatoventiquattromarzo | Director |
| 1979 | La giacca verde | Director |
| 1977 | Un anno di scuola | Director |
| 1976 | Colpita da improvviso benessere | Director |
| 1973 | La rosa rossa | Director |
| 1972 | Orders are Orders | Director |
| 1971 | The Superwitness | Director |
| 1970 | Lonely Hearts | Writer, Director |
| 1968 | Baby Doll | Director, Screenplay, Writer |
| 1968 | A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die | Director |
| 1967 | Sugar Colt | Director, Screenplay |
| 1967 | Up the MacGregors | Director, Screenplay |
| 1966 | Seven Guns for the MacGregors | Director |
| 1962 | La leggenda di Fra Diavolo | Screenplay |
| 1960 | The Apartment | Writer |
| 1959 | Nights of the Teddy Boys | Screenplay |
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