
Franco Rossi
Biography
Franco Rossi (19 April 1919, Florence – 5 June 2000, Rome) was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six-hour Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985.
Rossi was born in Florence, Italy. He studied law and then began to work on theatre. He was assistant director of Mario Camerini, Luis Trenker, Renato Castellani, Aldo Vergano. Rossi made his debut as a director with the crime thriller I Falsari. He went on to have his first success with Il seduttore, starring by Alberto Sordi, and among Rossi's other films were The Woman in the Painting (Amici per la pelle, 1955), Odissea Nuda (1961), "Smog" (1962), Three Nights of Love (1964), an episode of Le bambole (1965), and Porgi l'altra guancia with Bud Spencer in (1974).
Rossi was one of the first established Italian film directors also doing work for television, being one of the three directors for the 1968 mini-series L'Odissea. His largest TV undertaking was directing the international co-production of the six-hour mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985.
Directing (25 movies)

The Two Missionaries
1974

The Witches
1967

Odissea
1968

Solo per te Lucia
1952

High Infidelity
1964

The Counterfeiters
1951

The Dolls
1965

The Seducer
1954

Complexes
1965

Calypso
1957

Friends for Life
1955

Caprice Italian Style
1968

Smog
1962

Odissea nuda
1961

Three Nights of Love
1964

L'altra metà del cielo
1977

Youth March
1969
Scream for Help
1994

Death of a Friend
1960

Pure as a Lily
1976

A Child Called Jesus
1987

Make Love, Not War
1966

A Rose for Everyone
1967

Controsesso
1964

Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini)
1993
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Solo per te Lucia | 1952 | Writer |
| La passeggiata | 1953 | Screenplay |
| The Seducer | 1954 | Screenplay |
| Friends for Life | 1955 | Writer |
| Calypso | 1957 | Writer |
| Love at First Sight | 1958 | Screenplay |
| Everyone's in Love | 1959 | Screenplay |
| Death of a Friend | 1960 | Screenplay |
| Odissea nuda | 1961 | Writer |
| Smog | 1962 | Screenplay |
| A Rose for Everyone | 1967 | Writer |
| The Witches | 1967 | Screenplay |
| Youth March | 1969 | Screenplay |
| The Two Missionaries | 1974 | Screenplay |
| Pure as a Lily | 1976 | Screenplay |
| L'altra metà del cielo | 1977 | Screenplay |