Franco Rossetti

Italian film director and screenwriter (1930–2018)

Franco Rossetti
Born	(1930-10-01)1 October 1930 Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Died	11 June 2018(2018-06-11) (aged 87) Rome, Italy
Other names	Fred Gardner, Frank Ross
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter

Franco Rossetti (1 October 1930 – 11 June 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in Siena, Rossetti started his career as a film critic, then in the early 1950s he entered the film industry as an assistant director.^[1] With the rise of the Spaghetti Western genre, Rossetti developed a solid reputation as a screenwriter, especially thanks to the screenplays of Django, Texas, Adios and Johnny Oro.^[1] He made his directorial debut in 1967 with the western The Dirty Outlaws, and then he directed seven more films, spanning different genres.^[1]^[2] Rossetti died in Rome on 11 June 2018, at the age of 87.^[3]

Filmography

1967: The Dirty Outlaws
1969: Delitto al circolo del tennis
1972: Una cavalla tutta nuda
1974: Nipoti miei diletti
1975: Quel movimento che mi piace tanto
1978: Il mondo porno di due sorelle
1984: Il lebbroso
1984: Al limite, cioè, non glielo dico

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-8804572770.
^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
^ "Franco Rossetti, è morto uno degli sceneggiatori di "Django"". Blitz. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2023.