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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.
Franco Rossi was born on 28 April 1919 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Woman in the Painting (1955), Nude Odyssey (1961) and Smog (1962). He died on 5 June 2000 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- April 28, 1919
- June 5, 2000
Franco Rosso (29 August 1941 – 9 December 2016) was an Italian-born film producer and director based in England. He is known for making films about Black British culture, and in particular for the 1980 cult film Babylon , about Black Jamaican youth in south London, [3] which was backed by the National Film Finance Corporation .
Franco Rossi is known as an Director, Screenplay, Writer, Story, Creator, Production Supervisor, Teleplay, First Assistant Director, Production Secretary, and Supervising Technical Director. Some of his work includes The Two Missionaries, Complexes, The Witches, Caprice Italian Style, Odissea, The Dolls, The Seducer, and A Child Called Jesus.
Director Franco Rossi offers an atmospheric meditation on the pervasive alienation and class systems inherent to American life in the sprawling City of Angels, as seen through the outsider perspectives of a visiting Italian attorney (Enrico Maria Salerno) and a small circle of Italian expats.
Pure as a Lily: Directed by Franco Rossi. With Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Madeleine Hinde, Adolfo Celi. Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get.
Jan 2, 2017 · Film-maker who co-wrote and directed the cult movie classic Babylon, 1980. Martin Stellman. Mon 2 Jan 2017 13.12 EST. The British film-maker Franco Rosso, who has died aged 75, always felt like...
