Franco Rossetti

Franco Rossetti
Born 1 October 1930
Siena
Occupation film director, screenwriter

Franco Rossetti (born 1 October 1930) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life and career

Born in Siena, Rossetti started his career as a film critic, then in the early 1950s he entered the film industry as an assistant director.[1] With the arousal of the spaghetti western genre Rossetti got a solid reputation as a screenwriter, especially thanks to the screenplays of Django, Texas, Adios and Johnny Oro.[1] He made his directorial debut in 1967, with the western The Dirty Outlaws then he directed seven more films, spanning different genres.[1][2]

Filmography

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 8804572779.
  2. Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.

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