Franco Giraldi

Italian film director (1931–2020)

Franco Giraldi
Born	(1931-07-11)11 July 1931 Comeno, Kingdom of Italy now Komen, Slovenia
Died	2 December 2020(2020-12-02) (aged 89) Trieste, Italy
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter

Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian director and screenwriter.

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.^[1]^[2]

His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper L'Unità.^[1] 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.^[1]

Giraldo died from COVID-19 on 2 December 2020, at the age of 89, during 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

^ ^a ^b ^c Luciano De Giusti. Franco Giraldi, lungo viaggio attraverso il cinema. Kaplan Edizioni, 2006.
^ "Franco Giraldi". IMDb. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
^ 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.