Franco Giraldi
Franco Giraldi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 July 1931 |
| Died | 2 December 2020 (aged 89) Trieste, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Komen from an Italian father and a Slovene mother,[1] 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.[2]
His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper L'Unità.[2] 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.[3]
After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of Frank Garfield and Frank Prestand,[4] 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.[2]
Giraldo died from COVID-19 on 2 December 2020, at the age of 89, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.[5]
Filmography
- Seven Guns for the MacGregors (1966)
- Sugar Colt (1967)
- Up the MacGregors! (1967)
- A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1968)
- La bambolona (1968)
- Lonely Hearts (1970)
- La supertestimone (1971)
- Gli ordini sono ordini (1972)
- La rosa rossa (1973)
- Il lungo viaggio (1975)
- Colpita da improvviso benessere (1976)
- Un anno di scuola (1977)
- La giacca verde (1980)
- Il corsaro (1985)
- The Border (1996)
- L'avvocato Porta (TV-series, 1997–99)
- Voci (2000)
- Delitto e Castigo (2007)[6]
References
- ^ Salvi, Marinella (11 December 2020). "Franco Giraldi, quel ragazzino partigiano". il manifesto (in Italian). Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ^ a b c Luciano De Giusti. Franco Giraldi, lungo viaggio attraverso il cinema. Kaplan Edizioni, 2006.
- ^ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.
- ^ Gian Piero Brunetta (1982). Storia del cinema italiano. Editori Riuniti.
- ^ Trieste. Morto per coronavirus il regista Franco Giraldi (in Italian)
- ^ "Addio a Franco Giraldi, regista di storie (e adattamenti) che non dimenticavano la Storia". Bookciakmagazine (in Italian). 3 December 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2021.