Name Franco Giraldi | Role Director | |
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Spouse Palmira Petrongari (m. 2005–2009) Movies Baby Doll, Sugar Colt, Seven Guns for the MacG, Lonely Hearts, Up the MacGregors! Similar People Agata Flori, Leo Anchoriz, Jack Betts, Ugo Tognazzi, Robert Woods | ||
Franco Giraldi racconta "La rosa rossa" - Percorsi di Cinema 2009
Franco Giraldi (born 11 July 1931) is an Italian director, writer and screenwriter. He was also known as Franco Garafalo.
Contents
- Franco Giraldi racconta La rosa rossa Percorsi di Cinema 2009
- Trieste 1948 documentario di franco giraldi
- Life and career
- Filmography
- References
Trieste 1948 documentario di franco giraldi
Life and career
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 to literary works adaptations.