Franco Giraldi
Age: N/A | From: Comeno, Slovenia
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Frank Grafield
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Comeno, Slovenia
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Movie Involvements: 43
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian director and screenwriter. 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. His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper L'Unità. 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. After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of Frank Garfield and Frank Prestand, 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.
Most Famous Work
A Fistful of Dollars
(1964) Second Unit Director
Duel of the Titans
(1961) Second Unit Director
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
(1966) Director
The Slave
(1962) Second Unit Director
Sugar Colt
(1967) Screenplay
Massacre At Grand Canyon
(1964) Second Unit Director
L'avvocato Porta
(1997) Director
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
(1968) DirectorActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 2010 | Self | |
| 2006 | Self | |
| 2004 | N/A | |
| 2003 | Self | |
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Directing
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| 2002 | Director | |
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| 1999 | Director | |
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| 1995 | Director | |
| 1984 | Director | |
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| 1968 | Director | |
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| 1967 | Director | |
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| 1966 | Director | |
| 1964 | Assistant Director | |
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| 1962 | Second Unit Director | |
| 1961 | Second Unit Director | |
| 1960 | First Assistant Director | |
| 1958 | Script Supervisor | |
| 1957 | Script Supervisor | |
| 1955 | Assistant Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1999 | Writer | |
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| 1996 | Writer | |
| 1970 | Writer | |
| 1968 | Screenplay | |
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| 1962 | Screenplay | |
| 1960 | Writer | |
| 1959 | Screenplay | |
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