Franco Rossi

Franco Rossi 19 April 1919 Florence 5 June 2000 Rome was an Italian film screenwriter and director mainly known for having directed the sixhour ItalianGermanBritishSwiss TV miniseries Quo Vadis in 1985 Rossi was born in Florence Italy He studied law and then began to work on theatre He was assistant director of Mario Camerini Luis Trenker Renato Castellani Aldo Vergano Rossi made his debut as a director with the crime thriller I Falsari He went on to have his first success with Il seduttore starring by Alberto Sordi and among Rossis other films were The Woman in the Painting Amici per la pelle 1955 Odissea Nuda 1961 Smog 1962 Three Nights of Love 1964 an episode of Le bambole 1965 and Porgi laltra guancia with Bud Spencer in 1974 Rossi was one of the first established Italian film directors also doing work for television being one of the three directors for the 1968 miniseries LOdissea His largest TV undertaking was directing the international coproduction of the sixhour miniseries Quo Vadis in 1985