{{Short description|Italian film director (1931–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Franco Giraldi | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1931|7|11}} | birth_place = [[Komen, Slovenia|Comeno]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] now [[Komen]], Slovenia | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|2|1931|7|11|df=y}} | death_place = [[Trieste]], Italy | other_names = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter }}
'''Franco Giraldi''' (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
== Life and career == Born in [[Komen]] from an Italian father and a Slovene mother,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Salvi |first1=Marinella |title=Franco Giraldi, quel ragazzino partigiano |url=https://ilmanifesto.it/franco-giraldi-quel-ragazzino-partigiano |access-date=7 March 2025 |work=[[il manifesto]] |date=11 December 2020 |language=it}}</ref> Giraldi spent his childhood and adolescence between the [[Karst Plateau|Carso]], [[Trieste]] and [[Gorizia]]. During the [[Second World War]], still in minor age, he helped the [[Italian partisans]].<ref name=fre>{{cite book|last=Luciano De Giusti|title=Franco Giraldi, lungo viaggio attraverso il cinema|publisher=Kaplan Edizioni, 2006}}</ref>
His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper ''[[L'Unità]]''.<ref name=fre/> 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.<ref name=sed>{{cite book|last=[[Marco Giusti]]|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007 |publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-88-04-57277-0}}<!--|accessdate=30 December 2011--></ref>
After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of '''Frank Garfield''' and '''Frank Prestand''',<ref>{{cite book|last=Gian Piero Brunetta|title=Storia del cinema italiano|publisher=[[Editori Riuniti]]|year=1982}}</ref> 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 adaptation]]s.<ref name=fre/>
Giraldo died from [[COVID-19]] on 2 December 2020, at the age of 89, amidst the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Italy]].<ref>[https://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Trieste.-Morto-per-coronavirus-il-regista-Franco-Giraldi-28f42f81-10d0-4c3c-99ac-aac5bcbaf7da.html Trieste. Morto per coronavirus il regista Franco Giraldi] {{in lang|it}}</ref>
== Filmography == * ''[[Seven Guns for the MacGregors]]'' (1966) * ''[[Sugar Colt]]'' (1967) * ''[[Up the MacGregors!]]'' (1967) * ''[[A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (film)|A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die]]'' (1968) * ''[[La bambolona]]'' (1968) * ''[[Lonely Hearts (1970 film)|Lonely Hearts]]'' (1970) * ''[[La supertestimone]]'' (1971) * ''[[Gli ordini sono ordini]]'' (1972) * ''[[La rosa rossa]]'' (1973) * ''[[Il lungo viaggio]]'' (1975) * ''[[Colpita da improvviso benessere]]'' (1976) * ''[[Un anno di scuola]]'' (1977) * ''[[La giacca verde]]'' (1980) * ''[[Il corsaro (1985 film)|Il corsaro]]'' (1985) * ''[[The Border (1996 film)|The Border]]'' (1996) * ''[[L'avvocato Porta]]'' (TV-series, 1997–99) * ''[[Voci (film)|Voci]]'' (2000) *''Delitto e Castigo'' (2007)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-03|title=Addio a Franco Giraldi, regista di storie (e adattamenti) che non dimenticavano la Storia|url=https://www.bookciakmagazine.it/addio-a-franco-giraldi-regista-di-storie-e-adattamenti-che-non-dimenticavano-la-storia/|access-date=2021-04-10|website=Bookciakmagazine|language=it-IT}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|0320592}}
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