As Director
A Child Called Jesus
1987
6.6
Franco Rossi
Directing
Birth Date
April 28, 1919
Place of Birth
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Date of Death
June 5, 2000
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.
Complete Filmography
As Director, As Writer
L'altra metà del cielo
1977
6.0
As Director, As Writer
The Two Missionaries
1974
6.5
As Director
Caprice Italian Style
1968
6.2
As Director
Odissea
1968
7.7
As Director, As Writer
The Witches
1967
6.0
As Director
Complexes
1965
7.0
As Director
The Dolls
1965
5.4
As Director
Controsesso
1964
6.4
As Director
High Infidelity
1964
5.3
As Director, As Writer
Smog
1962
5.6
As Director, As Writer
The Seducer
1954
6.5