Franco Giraldi
Directing
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
Directing31
movieVoices
2002
Director
movieBuscando a Sherezade
1999
Director
tvL'avvocato Porta
1997
Director
movieLa frontiera
1996
Director
movieSabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
Director
movieLa giacca verde
1979
Director
movieLa rosa rossa
1973
Director
movieOrders are Orders
1972
Director
movieThe Superwitness
1971
Director
movieLonely Hearts
1970
Director
movieBaby Doll
1968
Director
movieSugar Colt
1967
Director
movieUp the MacGregors
1967
Director
movieThe Constancy of Reason
1964
Assistant Director
movieA Fistful of Dollars
1964
Assistant Director, Second Unit Director
movieMassacre At Grand Canyon
1964
Second Unit Director
movieThe Slave
1962
Second Unit Director
movieRomulus and Remus
1961
Second Unit Director
moviePigeon Shoot
1961
First Assistant Director
movieThe Hunchback
1960
First Assistant Director
moviePiece of the Sky
1958
Script Supervisor
movieMen and Wolves
1957
Script Supervisor
movieGiovanna
1955
Assistant Director
Writing11
movieVoices
2002
Writer
movieLa frontiera
1996
Writer
movieLonely Hearts
1970
Writer
movieBaby Doll
1968
Screenplay, Writer
movieSugar Colt
1967
Screenplay
movieUp the MacGregors
1967
Screenplay
movieThe Apartment
1960
Writer
movieNights of the Teddy Boys
1959
Screenplay
