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Italian film director (1931–2020)

Franco Giraldi Born (1931-07-11)11 July 1931 Comeno, Kingdom of Italy now Komen, Slovenia Died 2 December 2020(2020-12-02) (aged 89) Trieste, Italy Occupations Film director, screenwriter

**Franco Giraldi** (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

## Life and career

Born in [Komen](/source/Komen) from an Italian father and a Slovene mother,[1] Giraldi spent his childhood and adolescence between the [Carso](/source/Karst_Plateau), [Trieste](/source/Trieste) and [Gorizia](/source/Gorizia). During the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), still in minor age, he helped the [Italian partisans](/source/Italian_partisans).[2]

His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper *[L'Unità](/source/L'Unit%C3%A0)*.[2] Later Giraldi had the opportunity to work as assistant director of, among others, [Gillo Pontecorvo](/source/Gillo_Pontecorvo), [Giuseppe De Santis](/source/Giuseppe_De_Santis), [Sergio Corbucci](/source/Sergio_Corbucci) and [Sergio Leone](/source/Sergio_Leone). Shortly after his work with Leone in *[A Fistful of Dollars](/source/A_Fistful_of_Dollars)* Giraldi directed his first [Spaghetti Western](/source/Spaghetti_Western), *[Seven Guns for the MacGregors](/source/Seven_Guns_for_the_MacGregors)*, released in 1966.[3]

After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of **Frank Garfield** and **Frank Prestand**,[4] in 1968 Giraldi directed his first film with his real name, the [commedia all'italiana](/source/Commedia_all'italiana) *[La bambolona](/source/La_bambolona)*. After some other comedies he dedicated himself to [literary adaptations](/source/Literary_adaptation).[2]

Giraldo died from [COVID-19](/source/COVID-19) on 2 December 2020, at the age of 89, amidst the [COVID-19 pandemic in Italy](/source/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Italy).[5]

## Filmography

- *[Seven Guns for the MacGregors](/source/Seven_Guns_for_the_MacGregors)* (1966)

- *[Sugar Colt](/source/Sugar_Colt)* (1967)

- *[Up the MacGregors!](/source/Up_the_MacGregors!)* (1967)

- *[A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die](/source/A_Minute_to_Pray%2C_a_Second_to_Die_(film))* (1968)

- *[La bambolona](/source/La_bambolona)* (1968)

- *[Lonely Hearts](/source/Lonely_Hearts_(1970_film))* (1970)

- *[La supertestimone](/source/La_supertestimone)* (1971)

- *[Gli ordini sono ordini](/source/Gli_ordini_sono_ordini)* (1972)

- *[La rosa rossa](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_rosa_rossa&action=edit&redlink=1)* (1973)

- *[Il lungo viaggio](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Il_lungo_viaggio&action=edit&redlink=1)* (1975)

- *[Colpita da improvviso benessere](/source/Colpita_da_improvviso_benessere)* (1976)

- *[Un anno di scuola](/source/Un_anno_di_scuola)* (1977)

- *[La giacca verde](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_giacca_verde&action=edit&redlink=1)* (1980)

- *[Il corsaro](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Il_corsaro_(1985_film)&action=edit&redlink=1)* (1985)

- *[The Border](/source/The_Border_(1996_film))* (1996)

- *[L'avvocato Porta](/source/L'avvocato_Porta)* (TV-series, 1997–99)

- *[Voci](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voci_(film)&action=edit&redlink=1)* (2000)

- *Delitto e Castigo* (2007)[6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Salvi, Marinella (11 December 2020). ["Franco Giraldi, quel ragazzino partigiano"](https://ilmanifesto.it/franco-giraldi-quel-ragazzino-partigiano). *[il manifesto](/source/Il_manifesto)* (in Italian). Retrieved 7 March 2025.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-fre_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-fre_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-fre_2-2) Luciano De Giusti. *Franco Giraldi, lungo viaggio attraverso il cinema*. Kaplan Edizioni, 2006.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-sed_3-0)** [Marco Giusti](/source/Marco_Giusti) (2007). *Dizionario del western all'italiana*. Mondadori, 2007. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-88-04-57277-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-88-04-57277-0).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Gian Piero Brunetta (1982). *Storia del cinema italiano*. [Editori Riuniti](/source/Editori_Riuniti).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Trieste. Morto per coronavirus il regista Franco Giraldi](https://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Trieste.-Morto-per-coronavirus-il-regista-Franco-Giraldi-28f42f81-10d0-4c3c-99ac-aac5bcbaf7da.html) (in Italian)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Addio a Franco Giraldi, regista di storie (e adattamenti) che non dimenticavano la Storia"](https://www.bookciakmagazine.it/addio-a-franco-giraldi-regista-di-storie-e-adattamenti-che-non-dimenticavano-la-storia/). *Bookciakmagazine* (in Italian). 3 December 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2021.

## External links

- [Franco Giraldi](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0320592/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

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