Post by teleadm on Dec 3, 2020 6:50:03 GMT
Italian director Franco Giraldi has left us at the age of 89, on December 2nd.(complications from COVID-19)
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He worked 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, he directed his first spaghetti western, Seven Guns for the MacGregors, released in 1966, followed by Sugar Colt 1967, Up the MacGregors 1967, A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die 1968.
After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of "Frank Garfield" and "Frank Prestand", in 1968 he directed his first film with his real name, the commedia all'italiana La bambolona. After some other comedies he dedicated himself to literary adaptations.
He is remembered by World Today News
R.I.P. Franco Giraldi
He worked 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, he directed his first spaghetti western, Seven Guns for the MacGregors, released in 1966, followed by Sugar Colt 1967, Up the MacGregors 1967, A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die 1968.
After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of "Frank Garfield" and "Frank Prestand", in 1968 he directed his first film with his real name, the commedia all'italiana La bambolona. After some other comedies he dedicated himself to literary adaptations.
He is remembered by World Today News
R.I.P. Franco Giraldi