
Franco Giraldi
Directing
1931-07-11 · Comeno, Slovenia
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.
Filmography

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010 · Movie

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006 · Movie
Western all'italiana
2004 · Movie

Italian Kings Of B
2003 · Movie

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
2002 · Movie

Voices
2002 · Movie

Buscando a Sherezade
1999 · Movie

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer
1999 · Movie
Entscheidung für die Liebe
1998 · Movie

L'avvocato Porta
1997 · Series

La frontiera
1996 · Movie
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995 · Movie

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984 · Movie

Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984 · Movie

La giacca verde
1979 · Movie

Un anno di scuola
1977 · Movie

Colpita da improvviso benessere
1976 · Movie

Il lungo viaggio
1975 · Series

La rosa rossa
1973 · Movie

Orders are Orders
1972 · Movie

The Superwitness
1971 · Movie

Lonely Hearts
1970 · Movie

Baby Doll
1968 · Movie

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
1968 · Movie

Sugar Colt
1967 · Movie

Up the MacGregors
1967 · Movie

Seven Guns for the MacGregors
1966 · Movie

The Constancy of Reason
1964 · Movie

A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Movie

Massacre At Grand Canyon
1964 · Movie
La leggenda di Fra Diavolo
1962 · Movie

The Slave
1962 · Movie

Romulus and Remus
1961 · Movie

Pigeon Shoot
1961 · Movie

The Hunchback
1960 · Movie

The Apartment
1960 · Movie

Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959 · Movie

Piece of the Sky
1958 · Movie

Men and Wolves
1957 · Movie

Giovanna
1955 · Movie